JD Vance discovers the Nicene Creed in a yard sign

JD Vance has apparently reached the part of Catholic conversion where he sees a yard sign and hears the Council of Nicaea screaming.

"Love is love" is not a theological coup. It is a bumper sticker with aspirations of fellowship. Vance, seeing heresy in it, says less about the sign than about the man wandering through America looking for things to baptize into grievances.

This is Vance's grift: finding the smallest available object and inflating it until it becomes a holy war he can lose on purpose. The sign may be nothing more than brunch morality printed on corrugated plastic, but Vance cannot just say, "I hate that sign." He has to drag Nicaea into it, because the modern right's whole hobby is pretending every ugly rectangle on a neighbor's lawn is the Battle of Lepanto. He thinks it makes him sound smart and pious. He sounds like a jerk.

It is always funny when the people calling everyone fragile need theological rescue from a yard sign.

Previously:
• Clever use of Oz yard signs results in anti-Oz message
• A lawn sign welcoming all people, in Spanish, English and Arabic
• Homeowner threatened with fines for Black Lives Matter sign hanging inside her home