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To: Pollster1
If we get to January 2018 and private business owners can still be run out of business for refusing to deal with "gay weddings" without a serious legal challenge in the works in the Federal courts, then I'd say the first year of the Trump administration has been a complete failure regardless of what else it may have accomplished.

Who the hell cares about cutting government or building walls if this is the kind of sh!t upstanding, moral Americans have to deal with?

Does anyone even know how much money the government spent in Sodom and Gomorrah? Does anyone even care?

92 posted on 02/03/2017 6:02:07 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Alberta's Child
If we get to January 2018 and private business owners can still be run out of business for refusing to deal with "gay weddings" without a serious legal challenge in the works in the Federal courts, then I'd say the first year of the Trump administration has been a complete failure regardless of what else it may have accomplished.

Those were a series of purely evil acts, and they were completely reprehensible. They were also all (as far as I know) done by state "courts" and officials, such as Oregon's Labor Commissioner, Brad Avakian. In many and probably most cases, they are outside the authority of the President of the United States, and the primary Executive Branch remedy is the appointment of the federal judges who may eventually assert authority over the dispute.

In the long term, the remedy is https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/242 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law

"Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States . . . shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death."

Eventually, the thugs on the left need to be prosecuted for their crimes against our fundamental rights. I believe that this is not the time for that battle, just for reminding them that their turn for prosecution is coming. I would like to see Brad Avakian, and every similar fascist, spend at least a decade in prison for their abusive actions that denied decent Americans the fundamental First Amendment constitutional right to the free exercise of their religious beliefs. Eventually. But not when that attempt could derail so much more, including the nominations and confirmations of the judges needed for those prosecutions.

93 posted on 02/03/2017 6:36:31 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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