Posted on 04/03/2015 8:38:28 AM PDT by marshmallow
The likely result of recent clashes, says Robert R. Reilly, will "be fewer such religious freedom bills proposed in the future and ... Republican candidates for president will keep their mouths shut about this issue"
Scholar, former assistant to President Reagan, and author Robert R. Reilly has written widely on “war of ideas" issues, Islam, foreign policy, and classical music and is the author of several books. His most recent book Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, was published last year by Ignatius Press and was described by Austin Ruse (President, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute) as “magnificent, a real achievement” and praised by Dr. Robert Royal (President, Faith & Reason Institute) as a “rare tour de force on a defining question of our time”. (See CWR's May 27, 2014, interview, “Why Is Gay Not Okay?”, for more about the book.)
I corresponded earlier today with Reilly about the recent events in Indiana and the increasing furor over religious liberty laws and “gay rights”.
Olson When the story about Indiana's religious freedom law broke earlier this week, it was striking how the vast majority of news pieces did not state what the law actually was or really said; instead, those “reports” simply assumed the law was bigoted against homosexuals. They also included passionate, ill-informed quotes from celebrities, activists, and CEOs, such as Tim Cook of Apple. What does that indicate to you about the state of journalism and where we are, as a nation, when it comes to any serious conversation about these issues?
Reilly: What the bill said was irrelevant to the reactions against it. What they – homosexual activists and their supporters, which include most of the media – are really reacting against is religion itself, which in the case of all.....
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicworldreport.com ...
Only reaction to Christian religion
Humerous way of making the point
http://louderwithcrowder.com/hidden-camera-gay-wedding-cake-at-muslim-bakery/
Should be: Indiana, Reality, and the Denial of Religious Freedom Except to the Government Recognized (Dare I say, Established) Religion.
Wasn’t Serling on the far left even back then?
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What needs to be done is that we need to push for state constitutional amendments protecting not just freedom of religion but freedom of conscience. We can not let the cowards in the GOP surrender on this issue.
This is an excellent piece. Though I try to keep my facebook non controversial (in spite of much temptation) this gets shared.
Rod was in his own world then.
I don’t know if he was far left/right or ??
His politics? I honestly don't know.
Some of his writings are so conservative they rival anything that Orwell was warning of.
Every once in a while, gets in a leftist jab.
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