Real tolerance is dead

Alice’s upside-down Wonderland World is officially here. We have been told that unless civil rights action for sexual orientation was enacted everywhere, we would face the prospect of gay Americans being refused service at our local cafes. Now, Sarah Huckabee Sanders has actually been refused such service because she is connected with a White House seen as not sympathetic enough to LGBT concerns. Wow! How does one get their head around this one?

While that is hard enough to swallow, the sympathetic response from some is that the management “stuck up for their beliefs and are … true Americans.” But the Colorado baker recently before the Supreme Court, on the other hand, is worthy of ruin for doing exactly the same thing? The hypocrisy here would be laughable if it wasn’t so ominous.

While I find it difficult to suggest any sympathy for the Trump White House, I couldn’t think of a better way to win sympathy from Middle America for this administration than this stunt. Real tolerance by anyone seems truly dead.

James Becker

Spokane