Posted on 04/13/2016 4:52:19 PM PDT by marshmallow
The American Founders believed religious liberty to be so essential that they enshrined it in the First Amendment. Today, however, it is treated as only another flashpoint in the culture wars. Simply look at the reaction to Georgia’s H.B. 757, a religious-freedom bill that my colleagues in the legislature and I voted to pass on March 16.
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the U.S., Georgia’s lawmakers wanted to be clear that our state’s protections for religious liberty have not changed. The bill would have protected clerics from adverse government action for their refusal to perform marriages or sacraments that conflict with their religious beliefs. Religious organizations would have been protected in their hiring practices and from adverse government action if they refused to allow the use of their property or provide services in violation of their sincerely held religious beliefs.
The bill also would have incorporated into Georgia law the text of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), federal law since 1993 and part of the legal codes in at least 30 states. RFRA restores a judicial balancing test that ensures government cannot substantially burden the free exercise of religion without compelling justification, and that the least restrictive means is used to accomplish its constitutional objective.
In 2014 and 2015, Georgia also attempted to pass RFRA, but then, as now, opponents claimed that these efforts would enable discrimination. Just when did the freedom to follow one’s religious beliefs in daily life become redefined as discrimination?
No matter. Disney and Marvel threatened to pull production of the "Avengers" film franchise from the Peach State, and the cable channel AMC vowed to take its "Walking Dead" series elsewhere. The NFL warned that it might drop Atlanta from consideration to......
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Could it be...
SATAN!?
I do not know why.
However, I would like to know if someone has compiled a list of companies who engage in this behavior. This is a two-way street.
“These businesses risk offending millions of religious consumers, who contribute trillions of dollars annually to the U.S. economy. If businesses hope to thrive, they may want to avoid being seen as hostile to the beliefs and values many of their customers hold dear.”
Or maybe they do it because they know exactly how many people care about it or don ‘t care about it, and if it will make any difference to their profit margin. Less good people as a % are their customer base because there are less good people now. That’s why it is happening now and not 1980. They aren’t dumb, right?
Freegards
Because the two gods the establishment worships are Baal and Mammon. The God you might have heard about in church or synagogue has no place whatsoever in fundamentally transformed America.
Romans 1:18-32
Because “corporate America” is led by moral degenerates. Who are proving to be, alongside their government partners, more than comfortable with fascist templates.
The entertainment business (which put a lot of pressure on Georgia) discovered that religious conservatives were paper tigers during the last major protest against a Hollywood film, the Catholic boycott of The Last Temptation of Christ.
Even at the time I could see the writing on the wall at the local art theatre where one or two nuns protested as the hipster crowd jeered at them and bought their tickets.
How many Christians are willing to tell their kids that they can't have that Frozen Bluray because Disney is an evil corporation actively working to corrupt the culture? Which it is.
Because the religious liberty laws protect the religious people who work for these companies. Getting rid of those laws allows these companies to eliminate one more variable in their employee structure that they have absolutely no control over.
Yup. I think we are a lot further along than most want to realize around here. I think a lot of folks were fooled when all those marriage amendments passed in the last decade. Those vote %s did not stay the same. They started to change almost immediately. There is not one state that would pass one now by more than it originally passed it, the ones that only passed in the 50% ranges wouldn’t pass at all.
Freegards
That list would be impossibly large. You only need track the half-dozen national companies that haven’t sold out to the gay mafia.
Almost all large corporations support immorality. If you look at it from an economic perspective, you would think immorality was their biggest product line. Maybe it is...
Recently it has occurred to me that the laws were needed so they could later be overturned.
Which is why I'm very suspicious of these "affirmation of religious freedom" efforts in various states.
After it's all said and done, they too can be overturned.
Bill of Rights be damned.
When faced with moral choices, companies will usually take the easy way out and focus on making money. They exist to make money. There are advantages and disadvantages to this motivation.
Because Christianity in America has become a cesspool of liberal theology.
Most of the “churches” don’t care. If they did there would not be an issue.
Offhand, I can only think of Chik-fil-A and Hobby Lobby.
Note to self: Give those two companies more business.
Mainstream religion should be the natural force supporting and defending these laws. But it either does nothing, or worse, supports the left and joins in these attacks. The corporations see no organized opposition to the left so they simply cave and suffer no consequences. This is all a consequence of the collapse of mainstream religion in the US.
That’s the thing, when you are at the point of actually voting on marriage the pendulum was probably already way past. There’s a reason we didn’t need to do that in 1970. But we did in the late 90’s and through the 2000s.
Freegards
In this age of social media, the homosexual movement is more willing to engage, and does engage, in media warfare.
The use of words like bigot, discrimination, homophobe are used against those who object to their chosen lifestyle.
In contrast, enlightened, open-minded, inclusive, are used to describe people who are in favor of their chosen lifestyle.
Goebbels and Alinsky have learned that words are powerful if repeated over and over.
Sadly, our side is unwilling to engage in these culture wars.
Because the majority of people on our side who complain will be damned if they do without their Coke or Disney vacation. And the ones who give it up aren’t that many. IMHO. Post Christian America.
BTTT!
Why is everyone trying to be politically correct?
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