The effective national legalisation of same-sex marriage in America has unleashed a full-blown culture war across the individual states. As a response to last year’s Supreme Court decision, the states of Indiana, South Dakota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, and now Missouri, have all sought to enact particular laws offering protections to religious organisations and privately owned businesses which would permit them to deny service on the grounds of their religious beliefs. Muslim bakeries would not, for example, be obliged to make a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage; a retreat house run by Catholic nuns would not be obliged to host lesbian couples.