So the Supreme Court of the United States has now heard of web design. That, of course, doesn’t mean it actually knows what web design is. But alas, a conservative web designer wants an exemption so she doesn’t have to design wedding websites for the gays. And SCOTUS is going to tell her if that’s cool or not.
Why anyone would want to design wedding websites is beyond me, but that’s not the point. Religious conservatives going out of their way to discriminate against LGBTQ folks is the point. Yet, this political stunt at first had me a little sympathetic.
I design websites. Very particular websites. Ones that aren’t for religious conservatives, for the most part. Which I’ve made abundantly clear. I’d rather get hit by a bus full of Catholic nuns than design any kind of website for anyone who thinks the gays are going to hell or whatever. And I certainly don’t want to be made to do so.
But it wouldn’t happen. Ever.
There are many considerations that go into choosing a web design partner. Budget, timeline, skill level, and aesthetics for sure. But also, does the web designer have a track record of doing the kind of website that’s needed — nonprofit, candidate, startup, retailer, venue, restaurant, band, church, and on and on.
So. Many. Factors.
And finally, is the web designer a good fit philosophically? Since the web designer will be intimately involved with the wants and needs of the client, having a web designer that’s cool with love being love if you’re also cool with love being love, when the subject is love, would probably be a good idea, if not a deal breaker. Especially if the web designer thinks the most important decision of your life ultimately leads you to burning for all eternity.
So again, I’m sympathetic toward this religiously conservative web designer to a point. I don’t want her to have to design a website for a gay wedding because I think she’d do a terrible fucking job. And it’d be a huge disservice to the gay couple. But that’s not what’s going on here.
What this is about is causing a stink because, as we all know, religious conservatives are the most discriminated against group of people in the entire history of the fucking world. Kidding!
What this is about is a non issue. She’s creating a stink because that’s what religious conservatives do. They go out of their way to let everyone else know they’re persecuted. End of story.
She’s probably going win, which will have dire consequences because everything the Trump presidency touched turns to piss. But she shouldn’t win, because she shouldn’t even be there.
This is all BS. And it’s way over the heads of the justices.
Where is the gay couple who is all up in arms because this maker of websites is a religious conservatives and won’t allow them to get a wedding website and therefore none of their guests will be able to RSVP?
Nowhere.
They don’t exist.
And they never will.
