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A Liberal "Gets" Religion
Wall Street Journal ^ | 9-12-16 | WILLIAM MCGURN

Posted on 09/15/2016 9:36:28 AM PDT by DeweyCA

Mr. Castro is chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a venerable institution dating to 1957 that has helped America kill Jim Crow and make good on our founding promises. An Obama appointee, Mr. Castro last Wednesday made public a report on nondiscrimination protections—increasingly about gender preference and sexual orientation—that in its crassness rivals Hillary Clinton’s belittling of Donald Trump supporters.

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The commission report is called “Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling nondiscrimination principles with civil liberties.” Its top finding is this: “Civil rights protections ensuring nondiscrimination, as embodied in the Constitution, laws, and policies, are of pre-eminent importance in American jurisprudence.”

Translation: Nuisances including the First Amendment’s “free exercise” of religion guarantee take a back seat to the rapidly multiplying non-discrimination causes such as the “right” to coerce any baker you want into baking the cake you want for your same-sex wedding.

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The solitary virtue of Mr. Castro’s presentation is that he makes not the least effort to hide the ugly bits. These lead to a nation where the mediating institutions that stand between the citizen and government (churches, schools, private associations) are stripped of influence, and the political system no longer decides divisive issues through its elected representatives.

In Mr. Castro’s world, those who dissent from the prevailing pieties are deemed unfit for the public square . . . the judgment of federal agencies substitutes for Congress . . . and Justice Anthony Kennedy is free to take his own private mystery of the universe and impose it on the nation by unearthing constitutional rights unmentioned in the Constitution at the expense of the rights that are.

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...we’re left with this: The melancholy spectacle of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issuing a report trashing the first civil right enumerated in the Bill of Rights.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ac; civilrights; freedomofreligion; persecution; religiousfreedom
The Progressive Democrats want to greatly restrict the freedom of religion clause in the first amendment. Their dedication to sexual perversion takes precedence over the first amendment rights of Christians to practice their faith.
1 posted on 09/15/2016 9:36:29 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

Perverts, mentally ill, anti white, anti Americans against normal people.


2 posted on 09/15/2016 9:39:18 AM PDT by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: DeweyCA

Both Clinton and Barky have often used the expression Freedom of Worship. Limiting religion to an hour a week in a place of worship or to the privacy of one’s home. This is what Lenin did in the Constitution of the Soviet Union and it is inscribed in the Charter of the UN.


3 posted on 09/15/2016 9:45:58 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: DeweyCA

Bfl


4 posted on 09/15/2016 9:50:19 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Fact-based argument.)
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To: DeweyCA

One of Obama’s first appointments was Chai Feldblum to the EEOC. She is a lesbian and was a Georgetown Law prof. She said that when there is a conflict between religious rights and gay rights, gay rights should win EVERY time. That is the mentality of Obama’a people, Hillary’s people and the other Dem elites. They HATE evangelical Christianity and its morality. They do not want ANY restrictions on themselves and their behavior. Their pride and ego makes them want to be their own gods.


5 posted on 09/15/2016 11:00:20 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

I bet Obama comes out of the closet on or around January 20, 2017. You heard it here first folks.


6 posted on 09/15/2016 12:49:34 PM PDT by Garvin (Age does not guarantee wisdom, and a college degree does not guarantee intelligence.)
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To: xkaydet65
Mere words on paper, what James Madison called "parchment barriers," are useless unless they are backed up with institutions to enforce them.

In Praise of The Soviet Constitution.

7 posted on 09/15/2016 3:37:00 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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