Let's get real about what the essence of this is

It just occurred to me as I was trimming asparagus for supper what the essence is of what those unleashing the Indiana-religious-freedom-law firestorm are predicating their sales pitch on:  the idea that  there had been a general itching among the bigoted populace to hang "No [fill in your favorite disenfranchised demographic] Allowed" signs in the nation's shop windows.

What utter hooey.  Disingenuous, just like the notion that you keeping your thermostat at 72 is going to submerge the Statue of Liberty, just like the notion that seriously enforcing our immigration laws is going to consign a generation of Latin American toddlers to a childhood and adolescence of Dickensian limbo.

This is all about grievance-mongering homosexuals and devout Christisans, and everybody knows it.  The case of florist Barnelle Stutzman makes this clear.  The gay couple had purchased previous services from her.  It was specifically the wedding floral-arrangement business that she declined.  And it wasn't even the couple that sued her.  It was the Washington state attorney general.

I maintain that the two aims of this hate frenzy are

• striking the most wounding blow possible against free-market economics, and 
• relegating Christianity to the status of a marginal, niche belief system that mainly appeals to kooks and bigots.

That's why "goose-stepping jackboots" is not an over-the-top way to describe contemporary leftists.