Some groups are very much out of favor. Among these are those who commemorate the Confederacy and its cause, Protestant preachers who believe in the sanctity of marriage, and Chrysler bondholders. Groups that are very much in favor include minority groups, unions, homosexuals, and community agitators.
So these permit seekers should not take this personally. The refusal to grant them a permit was not personal, it has nothing to do with them personally, they are just members of the wrong group.
You’ve read Mark Levin’s book, then ?
Of course, this will lead eventually to a minoritarian government's trying to take -- and keep -- power. We've already seen how badly 'Rats react to being denied a return to office, as in 2000. Eventually these client groups of theirs will decide on banana-republic tactics, including bloodshed, as preferable to losing power to "them", as the current euphemism in the Black Caucus goes.
Better violence, they will tell one another as the Era of Obama draws to a close, than to be ruled by "them." And then it will be on.
Yes, they aren’t on the right tier in the hierarchy of rightsholders. Nothing more than that.
America -- a great idea, didn't last.
“Some groups are very much out of favor. Among these are those who commemorate the Confederacy and its cause...”
nathanbedford, you’ve taken screen name of the founder of the Ku-Klux Klan. I don’t think I’d be particularly welcoming to you if you were asking to be in my parade with a name like that.
On the other hand, commemorators are generally pretty harmless and do us all a service by keeping the history tangable and alive. Besides, the Union commemorators would look pretty silly reinacting the Battle of Gettysburg with no enemy. It would be like having cowboys with no indians. Of course, in our current politically-correct brain-washed society, the cowboys would be the ones excluded.
Someone pointed out further below that we used to honor all our war dead, Confederate or Union. My father remembers attending a parade in his youth that honored the last living Confederate soldier in his town.
We used to venerate Lincoln’s words no repudiate them by our actions:
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
Right the Constitution no longer functions. And the 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th Amendments are major sources of the problem. Only a fool can think that the Founders intended the 9 Justices on the Supreme Court to be the holders of the leash on Federal power. It was the independence of the States that was to keep the Federal Government in check. This is why the Confederacy is so demonized by the left. Keep America in the dark about its past and you can rule by deception. How sad.