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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

Do we all get to do that?

Supporters of web designer Lorie Smith protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. The court heard the case of Smith, owner of 303 Creative, a website design company in Colorado. Smith refuses to create websites for same-sex weddings despite a state anti-discrimination law. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty)

Are you a Christian? Then I’m sorry, I’m going to have to ask you to stop reading now and direct your attention elsewhere. The comics, maybe. Nothing personal, understand. It isn’t that I believe you and your children are damned to burn in hell for all eternity. It’s that my religion forbids addressing you, in my view. “These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel,” God tells Moses in Exodus, which obviously leaves Gentiles out.

Wait a second! “Sons”? Maybe women readers should move on too. Let me pray on that and get back to you.

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