Christian films with a tenuous grasp on our Constitution and Christian legislators with a tenuous grasp on our Constitution are both having a moment right now, so naturally, Saturday Night Live brought them together in one spectacular trailer. Vanessa Bayer plays a simple baker persecuted for her faith by the most powerful force in America: a gay couple.
The story is a classic illustration of the kind of slippery slope our keenest legal minds have been warning us about for years: First the couple just want a wedding cake, but before Bayer knows it, their Jewish lawyer and the American Civil Liberties Union are involved, and her faith is on trial.
Fortunately, she has a powerful ally: the fictional governor of a fictional state, who just happens to have an office in the Mississippi State Capitol. All it takes is her simple, heartfelt request—“I want to deny basic goods and services to gay people”—for him to abandon all of the state’s other problems to devote himself to her cause. It’s an inspiring story, but just imagine how much more impact it would have if it weren’t obviously fictional.
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