Civil Rights Commission Blasts 'So-Called Religious Liberty’ Laws

Catholic Culture ^ | 4/22/16

[marshmallow]

A federal government agency has blasted “recent state laws passed, and proposals being considered, under the guise of so-called ‘religious liberty’ which target members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (‘LGBT’) community for discrimination.”

“Religious freedom is an important foundation of our nation,” said Martin Castro, chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights. “However, in the past, ‘religious liberty’ has been used to block racial integration and anti-discrimination laws.”

Castro added:

The North Carolina and Mississippi laws, and similar legislation proposed in other states, perverts the meaning of religious liberty and perpetuates homophobia, transphobia, marginalizes the transgender and gay community and has no place in our society.

[Sequoyah101]

Well, there are at least still two on the commission that may not be obongo plants.

Two of the commission’s eight members, Gail Heriot and Peter Kirsanow, strongly criticized the commission’s statement.

“It is not entirely clear that the statement’s signatories have actually read the relevant legislation,” they said. “Whatever it is that our commission colleagues are standing up for, it is not toleration.”

If we are rid of the dims in the white hut how long will it take to root out the wingnuts that obongo filled the gubment with?

[savedbygrace]

Civil Rights versus Constitutional Rights, with an emphasis on versus.

Civil Rights have to be established by law, and always take place at the expense of Constitutional Rights.

[Theodore R.]

It looks like most Americans no longer favor religious liberty despite the constitutional safeguards. I say this because of the kinds of candidates that they nominate and election ad nauseam.

[Louis Foxwell]

Communism breaks down social cohesion by portraying morality as ugly discrimination.

[Louis Foxwell]

“Religious freedom is an important foundation of our nation,” said Martin Castro, chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights. “However, in the past, ‘religious liberty’ has been used to block racial integration and anti-discrimination laws.”

This is, of course, a deceptive lie. The Christian community has always been in the forefront of opposition to racial discrimination. It is the democrat party in the US that has been the most forceful opponent of racial equality. LBJ's War on Poverty was a deliberate and successful attack on the black family and black independence. A profoundly racist president, LBJ bragged about this legislation, claiming, in his words, it would keep the N*****s on the plantation for generations.

[Regulator]

Sexual deviancy is not a protected right.

Behavior can be regulated by law and that is legal discrimination, and no one who wrote either the Constitution or any Amendment to it ever believed differently.

Homosexuality is not an immutable genetic characteristic like skin color. It’s a modifiable behavior. Thus not covered by any “equal protection” under the 14th Amendment, the clause that is most often distorted to legitimize their claims.

[FlingWingFlyer]

“Civil Rights Commission”. The liberal speak for dumbasses too afraid to get a REAL job.

[HLPhat]

Civil Rights Commision?

It's like this one time, at band camp, when...

 

..."fallible and uninspired men eunuchs have assumed dominion over the faith of others".

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

...

 

 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

[P-Marlowe]

Nothing to see here. States rights, blah blah blah.

Nothing burger.

Build the Wall!