Posted on 04/22/2015 8:30:58 AM PDT by xzins
Breedlove sought every means of finding a work around that would not cause him to violate his religious beliefs. The state refused to work with him.
He was fully qualified for his job one day and the previous 2 decades, and the next day with absolutely no change in himself he would have been a criminal.
How’s that for justice?
They don’t seem to get that THE POINT IS
to make you violate your religious beliefs.
Many of us kept stating how if we allowed homosexual marriage then this would happen just like we warned about letting homosexuals into the boy scouts as they would molest boys and they have.
We were told off the radical left, ignorant folk, and the deniers that it was their so called rights to marry and others told us that we were being stupid and the Govt should not stop them from marrying
Exactly.
This sham of a marriage should never have been forced onto the public and now the whole goal is clear form the homosexuals and their supporters.
Take away the founding of this country, 1st amendment, and attack Christians.
The whole underlying agenda of the left is to destroy Christian influence in the world.
That wasn’t obvious to me until rather recently,
but everything the do and believe now makes sense
in a way that it never did before I came to that realization.
The left has no problem using coercion to get their way.
ping
I hear you.
Years ago I had no problem with homosexuals. Hell if they kept it in their bedroom then it is their business.
My wife and I with my first son who was young back then took a walk through Boston gardens and we turned a corner as we saw a parade.
It was a homosexual parade and I felt sick to the stomach after just five seconds because what we saw.
Homosexual women dressed as nuns touching each other on a float and making out. Men in daisy duke PVC shorts with their asses hanging out.
We left there right away as that was disgusting and it was that day what made me wake up about them. As the years have gone by I see the attacks on Christians increase ten fold and not one media outlet like Hannity can take their cameras and show their viewers what their homosexual friends, neighbors etc are really like.
Ping
I agree with these magistrates' opinion/beliefs on same-sex marriage. BUT, their religious freedom argument is wrong (and dangerous). To the extent they were acting in their official capacity as a magistrate, they were acting on behalf of the government, not themselves, so their personal religious beliefs should play no role in how they carry out their official duties.
Gilbert Breedlove is a doctoral level Baptist minister and a participant in the Choctaw translation of the bible. His son, Joshua, a graduate of Dartmouth and the UofColorado School of Law, is a tribal lawyer for the Choctaw Tribe in Mississippi.
They say that according to the North Carolina Constitution they suffered discrimination. Did you read the North Carolina Constitution’s relevant sections?
Yes. The relevant sections are, in essence, the equivalent of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, and say that all persons have the right to right to worship as they choose, and be free of discrimination based on their religion.
The point is, there is a distinction between how one acts as a private citizen, and how one acts as a representative of the state. The state itself has no religious beliefs. So, a magistrate who is acting in his/her official capacity, is acting as an agent of the state—that is, without religious beliefs—not in their individual role (with their individual religious beliefs). Saying that the magistrate may not act based on their own religious beliefs while acting in their official capacity does not infringe on the magistrate’s religious freedoms.
First, the constitution also says there can be no religious test for holding any public office. So, you cannot keep a person out by virtue of their religion.
Second, there is a requirement to accommodate, and this state refused to accommodate. It was pretty easy for them to have county offices schedule in a magistrate who would perform a certain act rather than threaten a magistrate who had been a fully legal and faithful employee for decades.
Sounds exactly like what the Nazis did to the Jews!
And today, it is what the liberal demoncrats (with the support of many RINOs) are doing to Christians...
“He was fully qualified for his job one day and the previous 2 decades, and the next day with absolutely no change in himself he would have been a criminal.”
Force those dirty Christians out of work. Round ‘em up. Send them to the camps. That will teach ‘em.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, A__holes. Let's see how you like it.
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I’m not following you.
[[The whole underlying agenda of the left is to destroy Christian influence in the world.]]
They used to be very coy about an agenda that they kept hidden, but now that they have the complete support of the msm, the _resident, and the left, and the courts- they are no longer even bothering to be coy and are blatantly attacking religion in a seething hateful manner on full display for everyone to see- they no longer care their agenda has been exposed- and they are hell bent on forcing their depravity and filth on society in violation of our right to freely practice our religious beliefs
Things are going to get much much worse for Christians I n the following years now that there is nothing holding the gay agenda back any longer- We have only just begun to see the hatred and vile vitriol of these satanically driven sinners
Imagine being Jewish Judge in Nazi Germany and trying to win some legal case against the Nazi’s.
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