Posted on 03/05/2019 11:10:48 AM PST by chief lee runamok
The City Council in Portland, Oregon passed an ordinance on Monday giving atheists and agnostics special protection against discrimination.
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Well, God bless their little hearts!
They keep accelerating the crazy in Portland. I predict that a future President (Trump?) will have to roll tanks against that city when it rebels.
special protection
Do they give Americans protection from discrimination?
The entire western us, basically. Then every major urban democrat sh1t/fox-hole.
Commissioner Amanda Fritz, after being pressed by FFRF, proposed the change to "add non-religion such as atheism, agnosticism, and non-belief to the definition of religion," according to city council records.
Oh boy. This is going to get really interesting really fast. Of course atheism is operationally a religion. Christians have been trying to point that out for decades.
Oregon kills babies and the elderly but won’t execute the worst of the worst.
They want to take away honest citizens guns but give drivers licenses to illegal aliens.
They want to take away your automobile and force you into overpriced mass transit.
I forgot, what was your question?
Why don’t they just go ahead and say everyone is protected except straight white cisgender Christian men. We’re on our own. May as well act like it.
This is just a license to sue!
Every time some ne says “Merry Christmas” a lawsuit!
Anytime a religious organization looks to hire someone for something - a pontnteial lawsuit!
Of course atheism is operationally a religion.
My point was that if atheism is recognized as a religion, atheist harassment of traditional religions can be considered an effort to favor one religion over another. The atheist demand to scrub Christian (and other religious) symbols and memorials from the public square will become a de facto attempt to institutionalize a new state religion. Modern atheism in the political and legal arena has gotten traction by attacking “religion” as a prohibited category. Atheists can’t do that if atheism itself is a religion.
Thank you for mentioning that.
Note that the Founding States made the Constitution’s Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 partly to prohibit the states from establishing protected / privileged classes which Portland’s ordinance effectively does imo.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility [emphasis added]."
H O W E V E R …
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, but will also promise to do its constitutional duty to stop misguided activist states from establishing privileged / protected classes.
Also, citizens who value their 1st Amendment-protected freedoms of religious expression and speech need to get up to speed on their 14th Amendment protection from state overreach.
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.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Patriots will likewise need to elect a new patriot Congress that will actually do its duty to exercise its 14th Amendment power to strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights.
Finally, patriots with religious convictions who value their constitutionally enumerated protections should consider that Acts 22:25-29 shows that Paul used his Roman citizenship to save himself from being flogged.
Yes. I am wondering, in Portland, who DOESN’T have “special protection”? Just white, Christian tax-payers?
It’s Christians who need protection from a Christian hating government.
As discrimination against Christians continues.
LOL!
So, you interview someone, check their social media, see they are outspoken atheists and you pass. Who needs the trouble?
Identity Politics = Special Pseudo-Rights.
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