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Colorado’s ‘Hurt Feelings’ Exemption from the First Amendment [end of religious freedom?]
National Review ^ | 8/21/15 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 08/21/2015 3:05:22 AM PDT by markomalley

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1 posted on 08/21/2015 3:05:22 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

What say you Justice Kennedy?


2 posted on 08/21/2015 3:09:41 AM PDT by DAC21 (.z)
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To: DAC21
What say you Justice Kennedy?

Without a doubt, he would disqualify authentically Christian churches from being legitimate religions worthy of 1st Amendment protections.

For individuals, he'd undoubtedly say that Christians have "freedom of conscience" as long as they keep it to themselves. But if they open their mouths, they need to be shipped to sensitivity training camps for re-education.

3 posted on 08/21/2015 3:15:55 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: markomalley

Stay calm and carry on.


4 posted on 08/21/2015 3:19:35 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: markomalley

Religious freedom, river spill, wildfires ...perhaps God is trying to get their attention. Just a thought.


5 posted on 08/21/2015 4:00:10 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: markomalley

They’d have to just throw me in jail before I would attend any forcd “diversity training” to sit there and be told that my religious principles are wrong, especially when they’re founded on thousands of years of Biblical interpretation.


6 posted on 08/21/2015 4:03:33 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: markomalley

close down. form a new corporation. re open.


7 posted on 08/21/2015 4:14:34 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: markomalley

Hurt feelings, maybe. Butthurt for sure.


8 posted on 08/21/2015 4:31:49 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: markomalley

Discrimination is the essence of life. It is a basic fundamental God given right. Without it...


9 posted on 08/21/2015 5:03:00 AM PDT by wita
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To: markomalley
Without a doubt, he would disqualify authentically Christian churches from being legitimate religions worthy of 1st Amendment protections.

For individuals, he'd undoubtedly say that Christians have "freedom of conscience" as long as they keep it to themselves. But if they open their mouths, they need to be shipped to sensitivity training camps for re-education.

Why are we always crying about the First Amendment for Christians. What if I simply have an objection to the unnatural perverse behavior of homosexuals. Don't I have a First Amendment right?

10 posted on 08/21/2015 5:04:04 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (behind enemy lines)
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To: Palio di Siena
close down. form a new corporation. re open.

Exactly. I would have never let it get this far. My Dad ran a small business. One of his employees - on company time, in a company truck - decided to have a couple on the way back to the shop. Ended up DUI and wrecking the truck. He wanted Dad to pay workers comp for his injuries. Dad managed enough self control not to put him back in the hospital. But he told him in no uncertain terms (as a kid I learned a few new words) that he'd rather close the business immediately, that day, than pay that {deleted} one more dime.

11 posted on 08/21/2015 5:08:33 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

43.0 grains H335 behind the 150 gr PSP bullet for 7.62 NATO.........

Pardon me. Still reloading here.


12 posted on 08/21/2015 5:11:12 AM PDT by Flintlock (Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

43.0 grains H335 behind the 150 gr PSP bullet for 7.62 NATO.........

Pardon me. Still reloading here.


13 posted on 08/21/2015 5:12:33 AM PDT by Flintlock (Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
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To: markomalley

Note well that the First Amendment does not protect just the right to believe as one chooses, but to engage in the free EXERCISE of one’s beliefs. So the ruling in Obergfell is constitutionally unsound since it in effect endorses the silent and unobtrusive framework of a belief system, but bars its actual practice.

There will be additional cases brought before the Court, arguing this thesis, and the decision will turn on whether the rights of an individual (or establishment) to practice his religion override the rights of other individuals to bugger each other and then force others to celebrate it.


14 posted on 08/21/2015 5:16:51 AM PDT by IronJack
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I’ve read the US Constitution many times. I don’t recall seeing anything in it that states anyone has the right to not have their feelings hurt.

Of course the Constitution would have to matter once again for that to make a difference. Well news flash: IT MATTERS TO ME! So piss off liberal whiney ass wimps.


15 posted on 08/21/2015 5:18:34 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: markomalley

Did a quick word search on my text version of the Constitution.

Couldn’t find “hurt feelings” anywhere.


16 posted on 08/21/2015 5:28:21 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: markomalley

HA!

I’m stopping by their shop to pick up a cake tonight to be auctioned off at a GOP fundraiser tomorrow.


17 posted on 08/21/2015 6:28:03 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: mrsmel

It might actually be worth going, especially if they pull the old line, “class confidentiality”. Give them both barrels of the gospel and make them kick you out.


18 posted on 08/21/2015 6:32:58 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Palio di Siena
Better still, destroy the national government from within, encourage the satanic left to want to split the country up, secede and form a small but good nation.
19 posted on 08/21/2015 7:18:47 AM PDT by dbehsman (Attention liberals and liberaltarians, Judgment Day is coming. You've earned it!)
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To: markomalley

“hurt feelings” are an element used by progressives to manufacture strategic “perception” as they seek to consolidate and strengthen their numbers in the corporate/collective environment.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-25/how-companies-are-using-pip-humiliate-and-get-rid-workers

How’s your body language?


20 posted on 08/21/2015 12:00:11 PM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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