Tuesday’s national election, in which Republicans captured the United States Senate and increased their margin in the U.S. House, was said to be “about nothing,” according to some pundits, but was, in fact, about a lot of things.
• It was about the Colorado baker who was forced to stop selling wedding cakes because a state civil rights commission ruled he could not discriminate against a gay couple but whose religious beliefs did not allow him to approve.
• It was about Vanderbilt University’s nondiscrimination policy which in effect kicked several Christian student organizations off campus.
• It was about a Florida school district that wouldn’t permit students to read their Bibles as part of a free reading time.
• It was about men and women who’d served their country failing to get care in Veterans Administration hospitals.