Civil Rights Commission: ‘Religious Liberty,’ ‘Religious Freedom’ Code Words for Intolerance, Homop

cnsnews.com ^ | 9/9/16 | Penny Star

[ColdOne]

“The phrases ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance,” Martin Castro, chairman of the commission, said in a statement included in the 296-page report.

“Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others,” Castro said. “However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality.

“In our nation’s past religion has been used to justify slavery and later, Jim Crow laws,” Castro said. “We now see ‘religious liberty’ arguments sneaking their way back into our political and constitutional discourse (just like the concept of ‘state rights’) in an effort to undermine the rights of some Americans.

[TADSLOS]

"Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho!

Bitter Clingers gotta go!"

Hope n' Change.

[trisham]

I’d rather have them off-site. On an island. We can work on the benefits, or lack thereof...

[Ray76]

“sexual orientation” and “gender identity” are not protected classes in federal law.

[IronJack]

The Civil Rights Commission does not override the First Amendment.

[MeganC]

Christians: Know Your Enemy!

http://www.usccr.gov/about/bio/Castro.php

Martin R. Castro (Chair)
President and CEO of Castro Synergies, LLC
Chicago, IL
POLITICAL AFFILIATION: DEMOCRAT

Marty Castro is the President and CEO of Castro Synergies, LLC, which provides strategic consulting services to corporations, entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations that seek to collaborate with and have a positive social impact on diverse communities.

Mr. Castro was appointed by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in January of 2011. In March 2011, President Obama elevated Mr. Castro to the position of Chairperson of the USCCR, making him the agency’s eighth Chair since the formation of the Commission, and the first Latino Chairperson in the over half-century history of the USCCR.

In December 2009, Mr. Castro was appointed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to Chair the Illinois Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights Commission is the State public body that arbitrates complaints of civil rights violations in housing, employment, public accommodations and financial credit.

Mr. Castro is on the board of directors of the National Museum of Mexican Art; the only accredited Latino Museum in the United States. He also serves on the board of the Chicago Community Trust. Mr. Castro is also chair and co-founder of New Futuro, LLC. Mr. Castro is a former national board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and former chair of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s U.S. Supreme Court Committee. Mr. Castro is also the former chair of the Judicial Nominations Commission for the Northern District of Illinois, by appointment of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin.

For his leadership and accomplishments, Mr. Castro has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the National Medical Fellowships’ Humanitarian Award; the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Cesar Chavez Humanitarian Award; the Edwin A. Rothschild Civil Liberties Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois; and the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Corporate Counsel, Chicago Chapter. Mr. Castro is the proud product of Head Start and affirmative action in higher education. He received his B.A. in political science in 1985 from DePaul University and his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988. Mr. Castro was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Roosevelt University in December 2011 for his work in the area of social justice.

[Secret Agent Man]

The left’s use of the words “tolerance”, “inclusiveness”, “white privilege”, “diversity”, “common sense” and “fairness” are codewords for THEIR TOTALITARIAN INTOLERANCE.

They don’t use words the way normal people do. It’s THEIR definitions of what constitutes these words in their liberal worldviews.

[Intolerant in NJ]

It’s becoming quite obvious that “Code Words” is becoming code words for “I don’t approve of what you’re saying and I want to intimidate you into shutting up so that I don’t even have to consider your point of view”......

[attiladhun2]

For the Left, elections are only a means to an end. The end is total government control of every aspect of our lives, which is, of course, tyranny.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article ColdOne. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

While I don’t necessarily disagree with the Civil Rights Commission (CRC), the problem with the constitutionally undefined commission is that the feds are essentially using the commission as an excuse to wrongly ignore the limited powers delegated to them by the states, expressly via the Constitution.

More specifically, the only civil rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect concerning the referenced issues, giving the elected members of Congress the power to strengthen these rights, are 1st Amendment-protected freedoms, religious expression and speech in this case, and race and sex in the context of voting rights as evidenced by the 15th and 19th Amendments.

Also, other than in excusably widespread ignorance of the Constitution, there has never been anything stopping the states from amending the Constitution so that Congress can address the social issues that the CRC is complaining about. But it remains that the states have never done so. (This hasn’t stopped activist judges from legislating rights from the bench. Nor has it stopped Congress from making unconstitutional laws that address non-enumerated civil rights, making such laws presumably to win votes from low-information citizens who don’t know what is going on.

Also consider that the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress (sarc), to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in faceless, non-elected bureaucrats such as those running the EPA, IRS, FAA, EEOC and CRC as examples.

So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it want it or not. But by unconstitutionally front-ending itself with non-elected bureaucrats who are effectively running the country, Congress is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.

In other words, corrupt lawmakers are wrongly letting constitutionally unauthorized federal officials get away with stealing and exercising legislative powers, a lot of these powers actually 10th Amendment-protected state powers which the feds have stolen from the states, so that federal bureaucrats can do Congress’s unconstitutional and unpopular legislative work for it. By allowing this to happen, lawmakers are able to keep their voting records clean so that they can fool low-information patriots, patriots who don’t understand the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting them imo.

Remember in November ! enter Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to not only support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and unconstitutional interference in state affairs.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-igoring activist justices.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others,” Castro said. “However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality.

The planted axiom in this screed is that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - not even as written and sold to Congress, but as expanded by bureaucrats and judges - is superior to the First Amendment. From Wikipedia:

One of the most damaging arguments by the bill's opponents was that once passed, the bill would require forced busing to achieve certain racial quotas in schools. Proponents of the bill, such as Emanuel Celler and Jacob Javits, said that the bill would not authorize such measures. Leading sponsor Hubert Humphrey wrote two amendments specifically designed to outlaw busing. Humphrey said "if the bill were to compel it, it would be a violation [of the Constitution], because it would be handling the matter on the basis of race and we would be transporting children because of race." While Javits said any government official who sought to use the bill for busing purposes "would be making a fool of himself," two years later the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that Southern school districts would be required to meet mathematical ratios of students by busing.

. . . and that is not the half of the havoc the " Civil Rights Act of 1964” played with constitutional liberty.

Understand, there were real problems; segregation could be really problematic if you were black and actually wanted to, you know, eat and stuff while traveling in the South. It was not obvious to me what the answer to that was - but it was clear that there were also problems with the 1964 act. Well, we are having another bout of problems rooted in the interpretation of the 1964 act. This time gays - who would have been laughed out of the room by everyone in 1964 if they had suggested that the Act applied to them - are the belabored victims of oppression aggressors.

[Flavious_Maximus]

“Civil Rights Commission” is code words for militant homosexual agenda.

[A_perfect_lady]

This guy has Christophobia, and needs sensitivity training.

[ColdOne]

Yes

[ColdOne]

Yes

[dsc]

“his opinion is as valid/invalid as anybody else’s”

Well, no, his opinion is not valid at all. He is wrong.

[Grampa Dave]

Code words are Deploreable!

[HLPhat]

What's TRUTH a code word for?

 

"...who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world, and through all time;

 

...

 

 that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order; and finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them. "

 

"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"

--The Virginia Act For Establishing Religious Freedom
--Thomas Jefferson, 1786

https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=truth%20is%20great%20and%20will%20prevail%20if%20left%20to%20herself

 

[HLPhat]

>>the majority of whom claim to be

 

2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

[And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness] There are two ideas here. The first is, that there would be deceit; and the other is, that it would be for the purpose of promoting unrighteousness or iniquity. The iniquitous system would be maintained by fraudulent methods. No one who has read Pascal's Provincial Letters can ever doubt that this description is applicable to the system of the Jesuits; and no one familiar with the acts of the papacy, as they have always been practiced, can doubt that the whole system is accurately described by this language. The plausible reasoning by which the advocates of that system have palliated and apologized for sins of various kinds, has been among its most remarkable features.

[In them that perish Among those who will perish; that is, among the abandoned and wicked. The reference is to men of corrupt minds and lives, over whom this system would have power; countenancing them in their depravity, and fitting them still farther for destruction. The idea is, that these acts would have special reference to men who would be lost at any rate, and who would be sustained in their wickedness by this false and delusive system.
[Because they received not the love of the truth] They prefer this system of error and delusion to the simple and pure gospel, by which they might have been saved. 
 
(from Barnes' Notes, Electronic Database Copyright © 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

 

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"AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE"

[Rashputin]

Waiting until something is posted in the Religion forum to attack Catholics isn't good enough any more?

Well, obviously the non-Catholic majority in this nation isn't responsible for what the majority has allowed to happen, so we'll just say, "pretend to be Christian" since our overwhelmingly non-Catholic population thinks that eliminating religious freedom is just fine as long as they can blame the Catholic minority for it having happened.

[HLPhat]

>> the Catholic minority for it having happened.

Martin Luther was a Catholic.

It was the “Rome” part he was trying to reform out of the body of Christ.

"The Jesuit order played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and eventually succeeded in converting millions around the world to Catholicism. The Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534."

Jesuit order established - Sep 27, 1540 - HISTORY.com 

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jesuit-order-established

“Isn’t that interesting?”