'The gay marriage debate is not about gay marriage any more than the Confederate flag debate is about racism'

First, a little trivia to ponder: As a candidate for president, Obama told Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church that marriage could only extend to heterosexual couples. “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman,†Obama said in 2008. “Now, for me as a Christian — for me — for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”

Well, so much for Barack Hussein’s Christianity and marriage being a sacred union with ‘God in the mix.’

Which sets the stage for making the popint that the gay marriage debate is not about gay marriage any more than the Confederate flag is about racism. It’s about free speech … or rather the Left not wanting you to have the right to express it.

John Daniel Davidson writes in The Federalist’s must-read roundup of reactions to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage legalization in Friday’s Obergefell v. Hodges decision:

“It is not hard to see where this is going. The gay marriage debate is not about gay marriage any more than the Confederate flag debate is about racism. It is about free speech. The court’s ruling on gay marriage announces that in due course the First Amendment is to be sacrificed on the altar of the Fourteenth Amendment. Prior to this ruling, bakers and wedding photographers had already suffered fines and the threat of imprisonment for refusing to serve gay customers. Brendan Eich was among the first high-profile CEOs fired for his views on gay marriage, but he will not be the last. Eventually, churches and religious nonprofits will have their tax status threatened if they do not accommodate the new consensus on gay marriage.

It is not enough for the Left to live and let live. You must change your mind. You must not hold disfavored views. You must be the right sort of person. If you’re not, you will be muzzled. … Read the complete must-read roundup here …

Reactions include those from Newt Gingrich, Mike Lee, Ilya Shapiro, Heather Wilhelm, Hunter Baker, Eric Teetsel, Robby Soave, John Davidson, Rachel Lu, D.C. McAllister, Leslie Loftis, Amy Otto, Daniel Payne, and Benjamin Domenech.