Thread by @gregggonsalves

I would respectfully submit to the @nytimes that the upcoming Supreme Court case they feature today isn’t a clash between “faith” and gay rights. The framing here IS a problem. 1/

There are many people of faith who do not make discrimination in the name of God a tenet of their beliefs. 2/

Yes @adamliptak doesn’t write the headlines and he critically notes this case is being pushed by a right-wing Christianist law firm and advocacy group that also fights abortion rights and contraception. 3/

But then look at @NYTimesOpEd and you see @Tish_H_Warren pushing the line that this case is indeed about faith and she maintains her insistence that it is her right to discriminate and that unlike racism this is OK because the prohibition is biblical. 4/

Meanwhile #PamelaPaul continues in today’s paper wishing we could go back to the good old days where sexuality and gender didn’t need to be discussed so publicly, particularly around “the children.” 5/

All of this contributes to a normalization of one kind of religious belief as “faith” despite the fact that it is one view not universally held and in contradiction to others including the Church that @Tish_H_Warren left because it wasn’t sufficiently faithful to her bigotry. 6/

The @nytimes can publish all this, but let’s just call out the political work it is doing even in its news framing, at least in the headlines today. 7/

It’s shifting the Overton window just a little bit further to the right on sexuality and gender on the terms of an emboldened “don’t say gay” wing of American conservatism. 8/

I mean if Ron DeSantis runs for President you couldn’t possibly call him a homophobe! He’ll just be speaking for “people of faith” in the @nytimes! 9/

So yeah. Do better @nytimes. You can always play both sides but being on the wrong side of history is your choice. End/