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Now who's the moral majority?
CNN ^ | April 6, 2015 | Stephanie' Coontz

Posted on 04/07/2015 2:08:09 PM PDT by QT3.14

The public outrage over the "religious freedom" bills recently passed in Arkansas and Indiana caught the governors of those states completely off-guard, judging by their confused and contradictory responses.

As poll watchers, they surely knew that most Americans now oppose the discriminatory laws and practices they accepted as normal only a dozen years ago. But the politicians underestimated the pushback organized by local and national businesses, including companies with no previous record of public support for social equality.

They had better adjust to a new reality.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: arkansas; homosexualagenda; indiana; religion; stephaniecoontz; washington
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To: QT3.14

Why does this sound like a threat?

We are really at the door of lynch mobs again. Christians will be hanged by this administration’s lackeys. Later, just whites.


21 posted on 04/07/2015 2:31:10 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: QT3.14

“I can’t believe Nixon won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”

Pauline Kael


22 posted on 04/07/2015 2:31:30 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: mykroar

SNL had an hysterical skit about CNN last Saturday night. We DVR SNL so we can skip over all the dreck and watch a skit, IF it starts out funny. We don’t watch many of them these days, but the CNN skit was funny!


23 posted on 04/07/2015 2:39:30 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: QT3.14

Most lefties are funny until you realize they are serious.


24 posted on 04/07/2015 2:42:07 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: VanDeKoik

I agree that this is a fight that will leave them severely bloodied.


25 posted on 04/07/2015 2:45:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: QT3.14

[They had better adjust to a new reality.]

Reality is what we see through the Cross of Calvary.


26 posted on 04/07/2015 2:58:18 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Some wisdom from the “conservative Mormon” Marriott —

Asked about the discrepancy between his religious rejection of same-sex marriage and his marketing overtures to same-sex honeymooners, Marriott pointed to the Bible’s injunction of unconditional love, but added “beyond that, I am very careful about separating my personal faith and beliefs from how we run our business.”

“I am very careful about separating my personal belief from how we run our business.”

Why?


27 posted on 04/07/2015 3:42:35 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: QT3.14

I don’t think our author would be too happy if she really put the thing to a vote. Her problem is that she’s happy to replace consensus with state coercion and pretend later that a consensus has been forced thereby. It doesn’t work that way and it hasn’t worked that way.


28 posted on 04/07/2015 3:56:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: heye2monn

He really worships Mammon.


29 posted on 04/07/2015 4:00:40 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: QT3.14
They had better adjust to a new reality.

Or what? Force them to sew a cross to their shirts and round them up and sent them off into camps?

30 posted on 04/07/2015 4:14:22 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: dfwgator

Yes.


31 posted on 04/07/2015 4:27:14 PM PDT by QT3.14 (Germanwings: Obama locked us out and is doing the same to the USA.)
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