Indiana “Cowardly” Republican Governor Backs Down, Christians Lose, Gay Activists Win

Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo

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Indiana “Cowardly” Republican Governor Backs Down, Christians Lose, Gay Activists Win

By Julio Severo

Facing widespread pressure and boycotts, including from big businesses such as Apple and Wal-Mart, and facing the threat of big stores and factories leaving Indiana, its Republican governor, Mike Pence, rolled back his new religious freedom law.

Pence has been accused by pro-family leaders of gutting the religious freedom law. Paraphrasing the Guardian, which called Pence a “cowardly,” we could say, “So if you’re going to be against the onslaught of the gay agenda, why be a coward about it? You’d have to ask Mike Pence.”

The law changed by Pence went too far in the opposite direction and is now the first Indiana state law that explicitly mentions sexual orientation and gender identity — terms that are war flag of the homosexual movement. The change has been celebrated even by homosexual activists in Brazil, whose gay parades are the largest in the world.

The governors of New York and Connecticut, who had imposed bans on state officials traveling to Indiana as a symbol of their opposition to the religious freedom law, lifted those bans on Saturday in response to the change in the law.

The Arkansas Republican governor, who was to pass a similar religious freedom law, retreated too.

Amid the conservative defeat in Indiana, the Republican governors of Michigan and North Dakota also want to pass laws to protect homosexuality.

Homosexual activists are taking advantage of their victories in Indiana and Arkansas into further advancing pro-homosexuality laws throughout the United States.

Pat Buchanan forcefully condemned defeatism among social conservatives and rejected retreat or even compromise. Instead, the one-time presidential contender and Reagan White House aide urged Christians to put the laws of God above the laws of man.

“This battle can be won, but it cannot be won if we do not stand our ground and fight against this moral onslaught from the left.”

“The LGBT militants are not asking to be left alone,” he said. “They are demanding that we accept the morality of homosexuality and same-sex marriages, and manifest that acceptance, under pain of law and sanctions, in our daily lives.”

Buchanan added, “As the Romans demanded of the Christians, the LGBT fanatics want us to burn incense to their gods. The answer is no. If it comes to civil disobedience, so be it.”

Michael Brown, an expert who holds a Ph.D. from New York University and has researched and written a number of books on homosexuality, says he is not surprised by the reaction of Republican politicians. And, like Buchanan, Brown warns Christians will have no choice but to resist or submit.

“This is what we’ve been saying for years. Those who came out of the closet now want to put us in the closet,” he said.

Republican presidential candidates such as Jeb Bush are also shifting their positions. According to audio tapes obtained by the New York Times, the former Florida governor told a meeting of donors “we shouldn’t discriminate based on sexual orientation.” Bush has been praised homosexual magazine Washington Blade.

The changes to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, erode the freedom of conscience for most business owners in the state and mark the largest step toward special homosexual rights there in history, according to pro-family activists who studied the language.

Matt Barber, founder and editor-in chief of barbwire.com, said about change of the Indiana law, “What was designed to defend people of faith against being discriminated against and bullied will, instead, codify anti-religious discrimination and bullying into law. It will unconstitutionally force people of faith, under penalty of law, to affirmatively violate their sincerely held religious conscience. It has been turned into a weapon that compels people of faith to disobey God or face government sanction. This is unacceptable.”

American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer remarked, “The revised language has now been released, and it’s even worse than we thought. The new language forces Christian bakers to bake cakes in violation of their faith and conscience. Gov. Pence tried to fix something that wasn’t broken, and he broke it. The ‘cure’ in this case is far worse than the non-existent disease.”

 “This language is unacceptable. It actually reverses the progress of the religious freedom law,” said Americans for Truth About Homosexuality President Peter LaBarbera.

LaBarbera clarified that Christian bakers do not want to refuse cakes to homosexual customers, but they do not want to be forced to bake cakes with symbols affirming the homosexual lifestyle.

“Let’s take the example of the wedding cake baker,” he said. “They have a wedding cake. They sell wedding cakes to everybody, including homosexuals, but they don’t want to make, create or use their talents to create a gay marriage wedding cake. So if someone comes in and says, ‘I would like a gay marriage wedding cake,’ according to this language, they would not be able to dent that service. That’s the exact opposite of religious freedom.”

“This is the equivalent of asking a Jewish guy to make a cake for (former Ku Klux Klan official) David Duke, right? You would never expect a Jewish photographer, for example, to have to take pictures at a Ku Klux Klan rally or a neo-Nazi rally,” he said. “You should not expect people of faith to endorse a pro-homosexual marriage if they believe that homosexual marriage is sinful.”

If a black baker is asked to bake a cake with racist symbols, he should have the right to refuse. If a Muslim baker is asked to make a Christian or homosexual cake, he should have the right to refuse. Why have Christians no right to refuse to bake a cake with immoral symbols that violate their faith?

LaBarbera said a great deal of the blame for the hysteria in Indiana belongs at the feet of the news media, which, he said, are not even pretending to cover this story objectively.

“This is a media-generated crisis, the media working with gay activists,” he said. “The mainstream media have become part of the gay lobby almost. An incredible hysteria has been whipped up against Indiana.”

The hysteria, the firestorm of malicious opposition, the barrage of criticism, pressure and boycotts faced by Indiana, before its allegedly conservative Republican governor decided to capitulate, was the same climate faced by Russia after Russians had passed a 2013 law to protect children.

The Indiana law was not as daring as the Russian law, which protects children and teens from the harmful homosexual propaganda. The massive hysterical response against Indiana shows what these same groups did to Russia. According to Rev. Scott Lively, the Ukraine crisis and the U.S. boycotts against Russia came from these groups.

I wonder what would happen if Indiana banned homosexual propaganda to children. What massive crisis would these groups, especially Washington and the presstitute, use against Indiana?

Russians have not backed down. They have not been cowardly. However, sadly, the Republican governor and his conservative allies in Indiana have retreated, and as a result a law originally designed to protect Christians from homosexual bullying now advances the gay agenda.

I also wonder why Apple, Washington and the presstitute have never applied to Saudi Arabia, which tortures and kills homosexuals, the same hysteria, the firestorm of malicious opposition, the barrage of criticism, pressure and boycotts they applied to Indiana, and Russia.

Now, if a homosexual asks a cake with homosexual symbols, the poor Christian bakers in Indiana have no choice. If they refuse, the new law will be relentless to them.

If a homosexual asks bakers in Saudi Arabia for the same cake with homosexual symbols, he is finished. It will be his last request in this life.

Now, it would be interesting to see what would happen if a Saudi customer in America asked a homosexual baker for a cake with Islamic symbols against homosexuality.

Which side would Apple, Washington and the presstitute choose?

Which side would suffer hysteria, a firestorm of malicious opposition, a barrage of criticism, pressure and boycotts?

The side of money?

Apple has many stores in the Saudi Islamic dictatorship.

The Saudi laws against homosexuality and against homosexuals have never been a problem to Apple, which has multimillion-dollar trade deals with Saudi Arabia.

Why has Apple a double standard between American Christians and Saudi Muslims?

Why have the U.S. government and the presstitute a double standard between Christian Orthodox Russia and Islamic Saudi Arabia about homosexuality?

Bryan Fischer, Pat Buchanan, Scott Lively, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Dr. Michael Brown and other prominent pro-family leaders gave warning, but Republican governors and leaders, who are elected by their constituents to defend conservative and pro-family values, did not listen to them.

They listened to Apple, Obama and the leftist mass media.

What is the point of electing Republican and allegedly conservative politicians if after their election they do not give attention to their constituents and do not prioritize or even respect pro-family and conservative values?

What is the point of electing cowardly individuals unable to keep their conservative promises and show courage when faced by massive onslaughts of the Left?

With information from WorldNetDaily Associated Press and Charisma News.

Portuguese version of this article: Governador “covarde” republicano de Indiana cede, cristãos perdem e ativistas gays ganham

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[Salamander]

What if the bakers crumbled communion wafers into the batter and said a prayer over the cake for the homos’ conversions?

And then served it up with a gentle, knowing smile?

[sport]

Everyone that the Left has attacked except Phil Robertson, and he is not even a politician has backed down. That is when you lose. Never ever back down from the Left.

[Artcore]

Governor Pence, you are cowardly piece of Sh*t!

It would’ve been better if you never signed this law into being. Now you look like the Left’s Bit*h!

We are surrounded by cowards!

[aquila48]

Or blessed it with some holy spit.

Personally I would not want to order any food from someone who doesn’t like me or what I’m about to do.

[Clint N. Suhks]

From hero to zero.

[Salamander]

They enjoy the angst and attention.

What if everyone treated them like 3 years olds, throwing a tantrum, and ignored them?

How long would their tirades last?

Going further with your idea, what if Christian bakers starting joyously handing over cakes, with really creepy smiles on their faces?

:D

[skinkinthegrass]

White Cake w/Chocolate Exlax frosting..and candles, mustn't forget them.

[Salamander]

Food tampering is very bad, no matter the cause.

Sell nice, blessed cakes...add extremely creepy smiles.

Paranoia is a powerful thing.

[Bob434]

[[and facing the threat of big stores and factories leaving Indiana, its Republican governor,]]

Shame, He could have invited other big businesses who had better morals into his state to conduct business, perhaps even giving them tax breaks to encourage them to move to his state and fill the welcomed hole left by the departing sin loving businesses

Christian owned big businesses should call him up and threaten to leave his state!

[Bob434]

doesn’;t have to be ‘tampered with’ it could have “Rexlax and enjoy your day” written on it and if anyone complained about exlax being ‘snuck into the cake’ you could say “It wasn’t snuck in, We advertised it as having exlax in it, we just misspelled it by accident is all”

[Salamander]

The power of suggestion is not something you can sue over.

ExLax in your food is.

:)

[Salamander]

What would your ‘sworn enemy’ think, if you suddenly, gleefully, -wanted- to make his food?

Practically *begged* to be the one to feed him?

Were it me, I’d run the other way as fast as I could.

[Amendment10]

What the original Indiana religious freedom law did imo was to help prevent the state from violating Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A).

14th Amendment, Section 1:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Note that the “privileges or immunities” term which John Bingham, the main author of Section 1, used in that section is just another way to refer to constitutionally enumerated rights, most of these well-known rights, including 1st Amendment-protected freedom of religious expression, listed in the Bill of Rights.

So with or without the Indiana religious freedom law, the constitutional religious freedoms of Indiana citizens, including business owners, are protected from their state government by 14A, and therefor from people who would otherwise be customers if as customers they respected the religious convictions of business owners imo.

The problem, as we’ve been seeing in other states, is that the Constitution cannot protect citizens if citizens don’t know their constitutional protections, especially since legal counsel may not know constitutional protections any better than business owners do; the blind leading the blind.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if low-information state officials in the pro-gay activist states who have been giving Christian business owners problems are unaware that 14A exists.

Insights, corrections welcome.

[Politicalkiddo]

I doubt it was the “gays” who voted him in. It’s the very people he’s screwing over who voted his worthless carcass in. I hope he gets what’s coming to him.

[Bob434]

neither is l sited ingredients

[Bob434]

[[if as customers they respected the religious convictions of business owners imo.]]

And that is the key to this- You can NOT walk into a Jewish deli, or a muslim shop or any shop where the owners and employees hold religious beliefs and DEMAND that they violate their religious convictions-

However, Gay people are declaring that shop owner’s religious convictions amou8nt to discrimination along the lines of racism where a religious person could declare their religion forbids them from serving black folks- they are declaring that these shops are discriminating against a ‘class of people’ (ie gay people) if they should refuse to cater a wedding for them- however, being gay is not an ethnicity- it is a sinful lifestyle CHOICE that a person makes- IF it were not sinful and it were not a choice, but something they were born with and could not help- then that would be a different story- but it isn’t- it is a sinful CHOICE, just like pedophilia is a sinful choice, polygamy is, bestiality is etc etc etc, and a store owner no sooner has to pander to a pedophile demanding they cater their celebrating pedophilia than they do to a gay person demanding that they cater the gay wedding-

these types of sins are lifestyle CHOICES that people make, and as such they should own up to their SINFUL choices and take the consequences of that choice (ie: their lifestyle NOT being accepted by those who object based on biblical truths) and stop demanding that others accept it and cater to it-

As people, they have rights- but their lifestyle CHOICES do NOT have rights no more so than a pedophile’s lifestyle CHOICE is protected- this is a cold hard fact that these particular brand of sinners do NOT wish to accept- they don’t wish to accept responsibility for their sinful choice- and they want to force acceptance of their sinful choice and for their sinful choice to be protected udner the constitution and via court mandate-

[Bob434]

[[neither is l sited ingredients]]

Egads that was horrible- I meant- neither is listed ingredients

[Talisker]

Note that the “privileges or immunities” term which John Bingham, the main author of Section 1, used in that section is just another way to refer to constitutionally enumerated rights, most of these well-known rights, including 1st Amendment-protected freedom of religious expression, listed in the Bill of Rights.

This is incorrect. The 14th Amendment deals only with incorporated privileges - not the natural human Rights addressed by the original Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Two completely different animals. That's why the 14A actually says "privileges" and not "rights" - because that's exactly the difference it means.

And as for immunities, they refer to such immunities which are enjoyed by government officers in the employ of their work as government officers. Again, no rights enter the subject, and no rights are referenced by the 14A.

[Secret Agent Man]

Pence can literally go f@ck himself.

Coward is dead to me forever.