Great piece. However, I think we are missing the main point here. This isn't a clash of the old social justice tribe and the moral prudes on the right. The Pledge of Allegiance example does not fit into the same box, IMO. As we experienced during the pandemic (and its lingering impacts are still felt) and with clear admission within the critical theory "scripture" backing the current activism to compel, weaponize and persecute speech... it is all about political power. More specifically it is all about a massive coordinated attempt by people and institutions comprising several disparate socioeconomic demographic groups. The financial backers of this massive project are the global multi-billionaires and Wall Street. They offer spoils to the activist and managerial and laptop-class minions support them to remake the US and other western democracies into a giant globalist "EU" headed by and controlled by the very people that brought us COVID misery. The defense of this case could give a rat's ass about gay rights... as gay rights have never been less an issue to fight about.

The defense of the Colorado rules to compel speech are all about protecting their progress to exploit the very freedoms provided in our current system to systematically and incrementally inject the tyranny of totalitarian authoritarianism into the system. The victims groups they claim to support are just pawns and props in this, what is, a global war. It is WW-III but waged in the class room, political halls, media and big tech. Only our Constitution and the part of our judicial not yet infested with the totalitarian radicals is saving us from complete defeat... because we are asleep and treating these ongoing attacks on our 1A rights as just a civil difference of opinion.