Yesterday’s woke cause: force conservative Christian bakers to bake gay wedding cakes.

Today’s woke cause: drive conservative Christian chocolate makers out of business.

This is a thing that just happened:

Swiss Air Lines has dropped chocolate manufacturer Läderach over its owner’s affiliation with a pro-life, pro-family Christian organization.

For more than 10 years, Läderach had supplied the airline with small boxes of chocolates that were given to some passengers as a token of appreciation.

Following months of negative headlines, Swiss Air Lines decided to cut ties with the chocolatier that recently has expanded into North America, running stores in both New York City and Toronto. Sweets made by Läderach will be phased out by April 2020, the airline announced.

According to an article published by Swiss magazine “Beobachter,” the airline has a significant number of homosexuals among its employees.

Jürg Läderach, owner of the chocolate manufacturer, is the president of “christianity for today” (cft), an evangelical organization based in Switzerland. CEO Johannes Läderach also serves on the board of cft.

Here’s a link to a Swiss media story (in German) about the Läderach patriarch’s activism. The family are conservative pro-life, pro-family Evangelicals. Switzerland has a progressive LGBT culture — e.g., gay sex has been legal since 1942, gay couples are legally recognized by the state, homosexuality is widely accepted — but same-sex marriage is not legal. Switzerland’s abortion laws are fairly conservative, permitting it in the first three months of pregnancy, with certain requirements. The point is, conservative Evangelicals are outliers in Swiss culture.

What’s more, the Läderachs have never been accused of anti-gay discrimination in the workplace, and they have said that they’re strongly opposed to it.

This is all about LGBT and pro-choice activists trying to destroy a family’s business because the family holds political opinions and religious beliefs that the activists do not like. Destroy the business, or force them to stay out of public life with their stinking Christian views.

I told you when Chick-fil-A capitulated to these tyrants that it was a bellwether: when a company that has managed to succeed massively, even in the face of a demonization campaign from activists, ends up surrendering anyway, that shows activists that their attempts to stigmatize conservative Christians by going after their livelihoods works. Läderach chocolate is some of the very best in Switzerland — and that’s really saying something. I hope they can weather this storm. The point is, left-wing activists are bullies.

I heard in Rome yesterday some very solid information about a devastating legislative move coming against Christian colleges in a particular state, over LGBT rights. I can’t write about the story here — I’m hoping to be able to soon — but you had better get ready for a major national constitutional showdown over religious liberty. It will end up in court, no doubt. This is why it is very, very important to have on the federal bench — at SCOTUS and everywhere — judges who have an expansive definition of the First Amendment.

Assuming what I was told is coming actually happens, and assuming that the Christian colleges prevail in a lawsuit, on constitutional grounds, the social pressure on those colleges will be overwhelming. Are Christians preparing themselves, and their children, for this kind of mass hatred? For being faithful to the truth, despite the mob — including the mob at the state legislature — coming for you?

Republican politicians almost never talk about religious liberty, not in a substantive way. From what I can tell, a lot of pastors bypass it too. Believe me, the hatred is building. Guess which social justice warrior said this:

… activism, without which virtue is powerless. Activism is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of social justice, applied to the most pressing needs of society.

It was Maximilien Robespierre, who actually said these words, in defense of the Terror, the campaign under which the Jacobins slaughtered all the Bad People Who Opposed The Revolution:

… terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the fatherland.

This is the mentality of the Social Justice Warriors! And no major corporate leaders, no institutional leaders, almost no cultural leaders, and virtually no political leaders, have the guts to stand up to them.

There will either be a hard backlash, or we are going to have to build some kind of an underground. Either way, there can be no business as usual. The Left won’t have it. Hannah Arendt points out that the more that the political pushes its way into everyday life, politicizing everything, the closer we move to totalitarianism. I don’t want to live in a society where the Läderachs would be punished for their pro-life, pro-family views, and I don’t want to live in a world in which the Läderachs would be made to suffer in the marketplace for their pro-choice, pro-LGBT views. If we don’t have a strong reassertion of the importance of private life, and how it must be made safe from politics, we are going to end up having some sort of civil war. People will not tolerate this forever. Will they?