Posted on 07/27/2016 7:04:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
The primetime airing of remarks of billionaire technology entrepreneur Peter Thiel at the Republican National Convention was no accident.
Thiel was given a starring role at the convention to make some things clear. That although lip service may be paid in the party platform to traditional, biblical values and opposition to gay marriage, this is really no longer what the GOP is about.
Thiel brought his credentials as a high-tech billionaire to the stage to announce to the world that he is gay. In this, those organizing the convention told the world that, despite what the platform says, Thiel represents a new Republican Party.
Let's have lots of new technology and growth and stop the "fake culture wars," said Thiel.
"When I was a kid," he said, "the great debate was about the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom."
But let's recall that the Soviet Union was defeated under the leadership of President Reagan.
The culture wars that Thiel calls "fake" were not fake to Reagan.
In March 1983, President Reagan spoke to the National Association of Evangelicals and delivered what became known as the "Evil Empire" speech.
He referred to communism as "the focus of evil in the modern world."
"Yes, let us pray," said President Reagan, "for the salvation of all those living in totalitarian darkness -- pray they will discover the joy of knowing God."
The secret to America's success lies in Silicon Valley, Thiel proclaimed.
But this is not what Reagan saw.
Reagan quoted Alexis de Tocqueville,
who wrote in the early 19th century, "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness and genius of America. America is good. And if America ceases to good, America will cease to be great."
Reagan, of course, was a great exponent of the importance of free markets and limited government. But he also knew the vital importance of biblical morality to be truly free.
He also quoted William Penn, saying, "If we will not be governed by God, we will be governed by tyrants."
And this is exactly what is happening.
Religious freedom is under daily threat by wealthy secular humanists like Thiel, who use their wealth to force their values on the whole nation.
PayPal, the firm that Thiel founded, cancelled plans to expand into North Carolina, costing the state an estimated 400 jobs, because of North Carolina's law requiring that bathrooms be used only by those of the biological sex for which the bathroom is designated.
Now the NBA has announced that it is pulling its All-Star game out of Charlotte because of the law.
The secular humanist values that have grown increasingly strong over the last half-century are widely understood to be at the root of black economic and social problems today.
Yet, the NBA, more than 75 percent of whose players are black, somehow thinks they are helping the country by using economic power to undermine traditional values.
According to the American Enterprise Institute, the percentage of American households headed by married couples dropped from 78 percent in 1980 (when Reagan was elected president) to 66 percent in 2012. They estimate that median income of families with children would be 44 percent higher today if the incidence of married parenthood today were the same as 1980.
Peter Thiel and the Republicans he represents may believe that America can grow and be prosperous without biblical values that strengthen the American family. But it would be unprecedented in history and certainly is a view that departs from the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan.
The bottom line: Trump will protect all Americans rights from the muzlims.
hey kaslin, go vote for cruz...
Run for Calif. Gov. The time may be right.
“Thiel was given a starring role at the convention to make some things clear. That although lip service may be paid in the party platform to traditional, biblical values and opposition to gay marriage, this is really no longer what the GOP is about. “
This isn’t new and it didn’t begin with this election. Dubya did nothing to advance any of that same platform despite having a Republican House and Senate. He left in place Clinton’s policies of don’t ask, don’t tell among others. The GOPe shares the progressive cultural values of the Democrat left, they just lie about it occasionally to get votes.
I don't need anyone to tell me who to vote for. GOT IT?
What makes you think I would want to vote for Ted Cruz, he's not the republican nominee.
Why don't you vote for Bernie Sanders, or better yet for Hillary Rotten Clinton the nominee of your party.
I believe he will.
Culture war is what Clinton is depending on to win, as Obama did. That’s why both of them have been fanning every kind of social conflict possible.
Those kinds of emotionally-laden issues are the only thing that can get people to ignore her gargantuan level of cynical corruption. The Thiel appearance was in part designed to neutralize the culture war aspect of the race.
What do say about Cheney’s daughter Mary who made many a campaign appearance with her now “wife” Heather? They were together on stage at every Republican Convention.
If Trump wins, gets in and morals go to hell, then you can tell us how right you were.
However, so-called conservatives haven't done a damn thing to fight against the relativism inherent in the government over the past 20 years....including Cruz.
If you don't like Trump, then vote Hillary or STFU!
“Let’s have lots of new technology and growth and stop the “fake culture wars,” said Thiel.”
Fake culture wars = caring that private business owners were forced to let men into their women’s exclusive areas.
Fake culture wars = the NC law gave the choice back to private business owners in Charlotte as to who can use their women’s exclusive areas. Trump and Target can let men into their women’s bathrooms if they want to in their NC properties.
Yes it’s so fake OK.
Freegards
“Run for Calif. Gov. The time may be right.”
Obviously the GOPe thinks so. The last fool that they put up for governor, Neel Kashkari, is arguably to the left of Thiel.
Kashkari supports gay marriage, amnesty for illegals, abortion, and says that he voted twice for Obama. And that’s who the likes of Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Condi Rice and Karl Rove supported as they trashed Tea Party favorite Tim Donnelly. Maybe Kashkari’s big attraction for the GOPe is that he’s a hindu and shares none of the cultural values of those dangerous hick social cons that embarrass the GOPe.
What did the rat's takeover bring us? I tell you what. When the republicans had both houses, the economy was thriving and unemployment was practically nonexistent.
Imagine my surprise last night, while watching The Social Network on TV, to hear Peter Theil’s name associated with Facebook. I’m really surprised he has any Conservative values at all. Or does he?
I can sort of half-heartedly agree with “some” of what this homo says. Opposition to “gay marriage” is pointless at this stage. Pro-life, while essential, is not really a political issue either.
But this line of his infuriates me:
“Now we are told that the great debate is about who gets to use which bathroom.”
Well, WE did not start that debate. We think it is pretty damn simple. It is the aggressor-homo crowd that wants to have radical change here...change that no one was screaming for...and certainly they started a debate that we had no interest in having.
We lost this battle when the Millennials decided that homosexuals were the civil rights movement of the 21st century. It will take another Great Awakening to change that, and Great Awakenings occur when God chooses. Right now, the revivals of the church are taking place elsewhere: Latin America, Africa, China, even Iran. It could come here at any moment, if God wills and we are ready for it.
Fight is on.
We beat the commies because they were bad for business.
We failed to halt homosexuality because homos are good for business.
And the real one? That 1% will continue to demand that normal people change.
Is it genetic?
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