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The Tolerance Enforcers
National Review ^ | 7-28-2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/28/2012 6:38:25 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

To modify Lord Acton, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, but aldermanic power corrupts all der more manically. Proco “Joe” Moreno is alderman of the First Ward of Chicago, and last week, in a city with an Aurora-sized body count every weekend, his priority was to take the municipal tire-iron to the owners of a chain of fast-food restaurants. “Because of this man’s ignorance,” said Alderman Moreno, “I will now be denying Chick-fil-A’s permit to open a restaurant in the First Ward.”

“This man’s ignorance”? You mean, of the City of Chicago permit process? Zoning regulations? Health and safety ordinances? No, Alderman Moreno means “this man’s ignorance” of the approved position on same-sex marriage. “This man” is Dan Cathy, president of Chick-fil-A, ....

The city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, agrees with the alderman: Chick-fil-A does not represent “Chicago values” — which is true if by “Chicago values” you mean machine politics, AIDS-conspiracy-peddling pastors, and industrial-scale black youth homicide rates. ....

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Americans talk more about liberty than citizens of other Western nations, but, underneath the rhetorical swagger, liberty bleeds. When Mayor Menino and Alderman Moreno openly threaten to deny business licenses because of ideological apostasy, they’re declaring their unfitness for public office. It’s not about marriage, it’s not about gays, it’s about a basic understanding that a free society requires a decent respect for a wide range of opinion without penalty by the state. In Menino’s Boston, the Freedom Trail is heavy on the Trail, way too light on the Freedom.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: chickfila; currentevent; enforcers; homosexualagenda; kenyanbornmuzzie; marksteyn; news; partisanmediashills; steyn; tolerance
Biting as ever.
1 posted on 07/28/2012 6:38:31 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

First was the demand we “Tolerate”

Now, the command that we must “Celebrate” this perversity.

If you refuse to “Celebrate”, the powers that be are going to prohibit people from working, earning a living, buying or selling and doing business. Where have we heard this before?


2 posted on 07/28/2012 6:50:28 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Great stuff...thanks for posting; and, when he hosts for the Maharushie, he is fantastic.


3 posted on 07/28/2012 6:51:41 PM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Thanks, as always, Mark Steyn.


4 posted on 07/28/2012 6:54:34 PM PDT by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

And yet Emmanuel will meet with Farrakhan, who is a bigot and anti Semite. The Chicago Way.


5 posted on 07/28/2012 6:56:02 PM PDT by mfish13 (ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!!!!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Well, these gangsters have really been letting the mask slip lately, haven’t they? I wonder if the American people are finally going to notice and see them for what they really are—thugs who abuse the powers that have been delegated to them to indulge their personal whims.


6 posted on 07/28/2012 7:03:52 PM PDT by hitkicker (The only thing worse than a politician is a child molester)
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To: logitech

Darned awesome Steyn PING!


7 posted on 07/28/2012 7:06:24 PM PDT by WXRGina (Further up and further in!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

drop leaflets. wait one week. drop nukes.


8 posted on 07/28/2012 7:11:21 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand
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To: Dan Cathy

Time to Galt. If not now, when? If not you, who?

9 posted on 07/28/2012 7:11:21 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel, agrees with the alderman: Chick-fil-A does not represent “Chicago values” —

Thank God!
That means no under the table fee just to walk in the door.
That means no 12-15 murders every week in the restaurants.
That means the restauranrt will be clean, run by intelligent humans beings that have a sense of decncy about them.
Take your Chicago values and shove them where the sun won’t hit them Mayor..


10 posted on 07/28/2012 7:45:17 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Hodar

I neither tolerate and I will never celebrate perversion...


11 posted on 07/28/2012 7:47:02 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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>> It’s not about marriage, it’s not about gays, it’s about a basic understanding that a free society requires a decent respect for a wide range of opinion without penalty by the state.

A meager assertion. It IS about marriage, and the state has no business regulating the tradition of marriage.

The state is now persecuting and prosecuting those that do not support the state’s now random definition of marriage. While the state is indeed violating the 1st the Amendment, the effective consequence is the persecution of those that refuse to participate in the affairs of homosexuality.


12 posted on 07/28/2012 8:04:21 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Americans talk more about liberty than citizens of other Western nations, but, underneath the rhetorical swagger, liberty bleeds.

What a great line. It captures the current state of our society.

The Bill of Rights is under assault.

13 posted on 07/28/2012 8:13:37 PM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

bttt


14 posted on 07/28/2012 8:22:45 PM PDT by PogySailor (Obama is a SCOAMF)
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To: Sir Napsalot

So since the dawn of time, Marriage between a man and a woman is the very lynch pin of civilization.

Rename The Mayor Emanuel to the Godfather of Ignorance. These people give Stupid people a bad name!


15 posted on 07/28/2012 8:42:10 PM PDT by DeweyShootem
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To: Sir Napsalot
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16 posted on 07/28/2012 8:53:26 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Sir Napsalot

BFL


17 posted on 07/28/2012 9:17:53 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Sir Napsalot

The Justice Department should be filing against these bastards for conspiracy to deprive rights under color of law.

:: crickets ::


18 posted on 07/28/2012 10:26:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Let the Marxists deny the permits. It will undeniably expose them as the fascist scum that they are.

This is a battle that they can’t win.


19 posted on 07/29/2012 7:28:17 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Sir!

If you're going to post Steyn, I respectfully request you start a ping list. Even just the beginnings of one.

I also respectfully request you put my name on the list.

I almost missed this Steyn article --- and I don't want to miss ANY of them!

Respectfully,

Mrs. Don-o

20 posted on 08/03/2012 6:46:18 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I'm here to learn.)
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