(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers July 6, 2015)
Now that same-sex marriages are legal in Kansas—oh, yes, and in the rest of the nation, too—Gov. Sam Brownback is mulling the possibility of reviving a Senate-trashed bill that will allow Kansans to decide whether they want to sell a wedding cake for a same-gender marriage.
“Religious freedom” is the key phrase here, and practically, who is against that?
The concept that Brownback is feeling around to find the handle for is whether there is a way to allow some merchants—and it appears for some reason to be bakers who have the most devoutly held religious objection to same-sex marriages—to not deal with same-gender brides and grooms.