Posted on 03/31/2015 9:02:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
No one, I think, would ever have denied that Maurice Bessinger was a man of faith.
And he wasn’t particularly a “still, small voice” man either; he wanted everybody in earshot to know that slavery had been God’s will, that desegregation was Satan’s work, and the federal government was the Antichrist. God wanted only whites to eat at Bessinger’s six Piggie Park barbecue joints; so His servant Maurice took that fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in 1968 decided that his religious freedom argument was “patently frivolous.”
Until the day he died, however, Bessinger insisted that he and God were right. His last fight was to preserve the Confederate flag as a symbol of South Carolina. “I want to be known as a hard-working, Christian man that loves God and wants to further (God’s) work throughout the world as I have been doing throughout the last 25 years,” he told his hometown newspaper in 2000.
Growing up in the pre-civil-rights South, I knew a lot of folks like Maurice Bessinger. I didn’t like them much, but I didn’t doubt their sincerity. Why wouldn’t they believe racism was God’s will? We white Southerners heard that message on weekends from the pulpit, on school days from our segregated schools, and every day from our governments. When Richard and Mildred Loving left Virginia to be married, a state trial judge convicted them of violating the Racial Integrity Act. That judge wrote that “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents … The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.” Related Story
Should Corporations Have the Same Religious Freedoms as People?
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They forgot to make faggots a protected class.
Civil Rights leaders of the ‘60’s never thought the Road Through Selma would lead to Sodom.
Homo hate?
Corporations are assemblies of people for commerce. Yes, people should have rights. What a silly question. And segregation, banning interracial marriage, etc are not germane to this issue. 1. No one can prove the Christian religion teaches racism. 2. A Christian business owner exercising their first amendment rights is not the same thing as the state forcefully removing blacks from certain areas.
Article 2, Section 24. Religious liberty.
All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; no man can, of right, be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship; or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority can, in any case or manner whatsoever, control or interfere with the right of conscience; and no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment, denomination or mode of worship, above any other.
Perhaps the most salient point is this:
No human authority can, in any case or manner whatsoever, control or interfere with the right of conscience
Blacks need to realize and be incredibly offended that immutable skin color is being equated with someone’s perverted sexual behavior.
What makes it different is that the Queer Mafia has gotten up enough critical mass to begin screeching about Indiana. If Indiana backs down, they will go after all the rest of the states that have something like it in place, Arkansas first.
As far as tim cook and apple goes, I’ve never bought an apple product, so they won’t even notice that I don’t into the future.
Screw ‘em.
Clearly this does not mean what it says but if it does not mean what it says I clearly do not know what it says....Get that... / sarc
I hate liberals and lawyers.
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Good one.
They are being used and the majority is quite happy with the pittance they receive. If they voted Republican, as they once did before their “leaders” were bought off, the armed wing of the democrat party, the KKK, would be busy as a beaver.
Should Corporations Have the Same Religious Freedoms as People?
well they’re taxed like People soooo
Baronelle Stutzman, the florist is set to be bankrupted, lose her house, savings and business because she refuses to bow to the false gods worshipped by the Sodomites.
She had done business with this so called "friend" for nearly a decade knowing that he was a homosexual but only refused to participate in his faux "wedding" knowing that it would negatively affect her financially.
Does anyone think that her "friend" didn't know that she was a devout Christian and her faith would preclude her from participating?
And the young couple that owned the bakery or the photographer from Arizona or the B&B in New England?
Is there a LIV here on FR that thinks that these homosexuals ( 1.6% according to the CDC) that want to get married ( a fraction of the 1.6%) just happened to pick these small business out of the phonebook, were told that they couldn't be accomodated and there was no one else to take their business?
No, we see what it is.
A grand conspiracy so vile that it angers a just and temperate man.
They have the power of government, the untruthful voice of the msm, the gutless leaders of business, the NCAA, NASCAR.
These small business women and men have no voice.
Their hopes, dreams and aspirations will be destroyed.
Their hard work nothing but dust in the wind.
All to appease the democrat's unquenchable thirst for power.
BTW I would expect nothing less of a piece of crap article from the Atlantic
PING!
Only operative clause of Indiana Law (which was bill SB101):
"no governmental entity may substantially burden a person's exercise of religion"
Compare and contrast.
It also effectively says that no individual may burden a proprietor’s exercise of religion, e.g. burdening with lawsuits due to refusal to provide goods and services to gay weddings.
Think about it for a second. If businesses don’t have religious rights, then theoretically Christians could be banned from owning or starting businesses by government making businesses do stuff which is incompatible with Christianity. They already are trying to ban Christians from the public square but this would allow them to ban Christians from the world of commerce as well.
Exactly.
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