The Internet And Overreaction

The Supreme Court decision in favor of the gay-hating baker has been seen and represented as a major setback for LGBT rights.  It's not.  It's a very narrow decision that held that Colorado was too hostile towards religion in applying their ruling.

We need to find a common ground where people can practice their faith freely, while also not engaging in overt bigotry.  This decision - joined by Kagan and Breyer - was simply about the state being disparaging of a particular faith.

The reaction to the decision was the worst sort of knee-jerk, reflexive outrage that typifies the internet age.  This was not a major setback for gay rights, it was a victory for the state not acting prejudicial against faith.  This would apply to Jews and Hindus and Buddhists and Wiccans.  Colorado acted badly.  That's what the Court found.  But the Internet Left was quick to wallow in the defeatism and recrimination that so often typifies that sector of our politics.

There is signal and there is noise.  This was noise.