Because you are a special snowflake, who really, really believes in what you’re doing; your feelings about something make you so special that the law just ceases to apply to special little you.
“It’s the religious far-right’s ‘special snowflake’ syndrome. That’s really what the entire conversation is about: conservative Christians thinking that because they believe God sanctions their particular brand of bigotry, they’re special snowflakes who shouldn’t be restrained by human decency, much less the pesky laws that the rest of us are obliged to follow.”
Thanks to Rachel’s Hobbit Hole!