We’re pondering a couple of relatively small, but telling, refusals.

Actor Seth Rogen balked at taking a photo with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. And after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at a Virginia restaurant, Sen. Cory Booker was asked if that kind of protest tactic should be more widely adopted. Is it no-holds-barred time for Democrats?

The New Jersey Democrat replied with a call for “a radical love, ‘love thy neighbor’ – no exceptions.”  He added: “We cannot descend into a kind of hatred that really undermines what I think is ... hopeful about this nation.”

The fissures of frustration aren’t just snaking into restaurants and photo-ops. Pastor J. D. Greear was asked by NPR about evangelical Christian support for Trump administration policies. The newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention said, “We need to decouple the identity of the church from particular political platforms.” He observed that two of Christ Jesus’ followers, Simon, the zealot, and Matthew, the tax collector, stood on opposing sides of the great political divide of their day: Roman occupation of the Holy Land.

We’re working on a story about what the Red Hen restaurant refusal represents, but here’s one more response to consider: A CNN correspondent was berated as a purveyor of fake news at a Trump campaign rally Monday in South Carolina. What followed was a moment of civility: CNN’s Jim Acosta gave up his seat to an elderly woman. Her son said: “Your mama raised you right.”

Now to our five stories for today.