Torches and pitchforks, people. Torches and pitchforks, indeed.
(Incidentally,
if asked by some Nosy Parker looking to stir up trouble, your proper answer is “Well, we’ll cross that bridge when they get there.” And if they won’t let you off the hook, well, think of the man born blind.)
When asked by a reporter if you would cater a gay wedding, the correct response is: “It is against my religion to be an occasion of sin to narcissistic media personalities.”
Also, perhaps keep a printed copy of a list of halal caterers in Indiana (easily obtained via Google) and hand it to them “to save you the trouble of finding this, since you would obviously be eager to cover this angle of the story.”
Those are also choices. People just need to be advised against handing vicious interlopers the rope they need to lynch them.
Yes, part of the deep background here is the American church’s failure to continually develop training for our people in how to deal with the outer world. Evangelicals are still running on the model developed by Billy Graham and the figures he gathered around him in the 1940s. It worked then, it is deeply dysfunctional now.
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