Posted on 07/25/2007 8:40:04 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback
It doesn’t pay to take your constitutional right to free speech seriously anymore—at least, not if you live in Oakland, California. There, a handful of African-American Christian women recently found out that their free speech rights had effectively been outlawed.
The women, who are Oakland government employees, had formed an organization called the Good News Employee Association. As their flyer put it, their group was “a forum for people of Faith to express their views on the contemporary issues of the day. With Respect for the Natural Family, Marriage, and Family Values.”
As columnist George Will relates, the women posted their flyer after other employee groups, including those advocating gay rights, had advertised their activities on the city’s email system and bulletin board. When Good News asked for equal opportunity, they were told to forget it. City officials destroyed their flyer. They accused the women of Good News of being “determined to promote harassment based on sexual orientation. If the women posted any more flyers, or sent their message via email, the city warned, they would be disciplined and perhaps terminated.
In effect, as Will notes, Oakland “has proscribed any speech that even one person might say questioned the gay rights agenda and therefore created what that person felt was a “hostile environment.” While homosexual rights groups used the city’s email system to advertise “Happy Coming Out Day,” the terms “natural family” and “marriage” and “family values” are considered intolerably inflammatory, he adds.
This is why so-called “hate crimes” laws, like the one being considered by the U.S. Congress, are so dangerous. They can be used as a weapon to censor peaceful political speech that someone doesn’t like. The goal of homosexual groups is not to stop violence, or truly hateful speech; it’s to silence anyone who says that homosexual behavior is a biological disorder or a moral wrong. Mere disagreement is redefined as hate.
The Good News group has gone to court over Oakland’s attack on their First Amendment rights, and the super-liberal Ninth Circuit Court, not surprisingly, has ruled against them. The group now hopes the Supreme Court will intervene.
You and I need to be aware of attempts to encroach on our right to speak out against moral evils. We must also understand that this is ultimately a spiritual battle.
The Bible and natural law teachings tell us that God’s law is written upon our hearts and are known to all. As Christian philosopher J. Budziszewski writes in his book The Revenge of Conscience, those who rationalize their sins find it to be so much work that they require other people to support them in it. Society itself must be transformed so that it no longer stands in awful judgment.
This is why gay activist groups want to change the law to suppress any speech that identifies homosexual behavior as either a biological disorder or a moral wrong.
You and I must pray for those who are caught up in homosexuality; their lives are tragic. But we must also remember that, as the Apostle Paul puts it, we must witness to the truth, no matter what human lawmakers say or do, because we owe our ultimate allegiance to the eternal lawgiver: God.
Bullet 18 from “The Naked Communist,” 1958, Cleon Skoussen:
“Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural and healthy.”
If you dare to read this disturbing piece of prognostication, you’ll clearly see that the Communists have pretty much met the majority of their goals in only 49 years.
“We The Sheeple,” indeed! :(
If we resist them now that day will never come. If we close our eyes and ignore their ongoing crimes that day will be inevitable.
God is in control.
He has given us free will. If His people will tolerate perversion running rampant in this country then why would He bother himself to fix it? He is in control but we should be His hands and feet. Letting these sodomites continue to corrupt our country is only allowing them to drag more people into hell with them, with our approval. Do you really want to be seen as approving (through your silence) the sodomites dragging children into depravity and hell?
I’ll worry about that when they are in my family’s bedrooms and demanding conjugal rights at gunpoint.
“Mere disagreement is redefined as hate.”
Even so, is it illegal to hate someone? If it is, then every Bush hating liberal out there ought to be in jail.
The forced marketing of deviance is winning. Next up, deviants demanding access to not just kids to adopt, but availability of kids for queer sex with adults.
My husband and I were just discussing that the other day. About the people who keep claiming they knew they were "gay" at age three or five. Kids are not sexual at that age. I don't believe children have any sexual feelings until puberty... unless they've been influenced by something on TV, something they heard about, or something worse.
Most people would live and let live. But as we can see from this very thread, radical homosexual activists will do anything to silence the opposition. I believe for you to resist any attempt for gays to speak out against straight folk you'll have to speak out against gays.
The reasons people are involved in this debate vary from person to person. Many of us want to protect the innocence and the minds of children and I think that's a worthy goal.
DieHard,
I had the same live-and-let-live, it’s-none-of-my-business attitude. As a matter of fact, I was in favor of Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell. But, now it’s being taught as acceptable to children in the public schools. Younger and younger children. Kindergartners now. If you object, you’re labeled a bigot. It’s bringing down the churches as, one by one, they begin to accept it, too. It’s time to fight this movement.
In a related article...http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7b697921EB-1663-4041-8BD8-78B534F14A7C%7d&siteid=nbs&symb=
The Bolsheviks are alive and well see H. clinton the chicoms can’t wait for her to be in office they need more info.
In Canada the Canadian Human Rights Commission and its provincial tribunals have been charging and fining Christians and others for years for saying politically incorrect things about homosexuals. They brag that no one charged so far has been found innocent.
Now they are going after those who would question radical Islam.
These predators deserve nothing less than the worse possible punishment.
What if we just ask for an example of another mammal that reproduces homosexually?
Frightening stuff. I spent a lot of time on atheist forums, and I thought I'd heard about all the "isms". But I hadn't heard of those two. Thanks.
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