Posted on 12/08/2019 5:02:28 PM PST by yoe
Today, we hear our representatives (it seems increasingly less clear just whom they represent) frequently invoking the phrase "the American people." I ask, who are these American people whom politicians so flippantly feign to speak for?
[snip]Today, I see our country divided into many disparate social groups, presided over by egotistical, self-indulgent politicians. As a young man with many ethnic bloodlines running through my veins, I saw myself as an American first. Today, Americans identify predominantly by their ethnicities, pronouns, and gender preferences. We've become balkanized along the lines of sexual preferences and pronounced racial differences, and in place of a more perfect union, we're becoming splintered, apathetic, and divided. Our current leaders aren't doing anything to repair it. In many instances, they're exacerbating it.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Bill of Rights and Gay Marriage
The Bill of Rights Day on December 15 reminds one how far this country has departed from first principles. The 2015 gay marriage ruling completes a rewrite of the First Amendment. It says and used to mean, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press .
We are familiar with the term speech or expression, which seems an innocuous expansion. However, expression enables a nearly unbounded multi-billion-dollar pornography industry.
Justice Kennedys majority opinion on gay marriage states, The First Amendment ensures that religious organizations and persons are given proper protection as they seek to advocate and teach the principles that are so fulfilling and central to their lives and faith. Such language restricts religious freedom by excluding free exercise thereof.
This restriction prohibits exercise of religious beliefs in business and personal lives even though the Constitution makes no distinction between individuals and their organizations, and churches. The interpretation marginalizes tens of millions of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim believers for whom Gods creation of heterosexual marriage means homosexual behaviors separate people from the love relationship God desires with humanity. Any subsequent scriptural reasoning applied must derive from that basic understanding.
Now we have a country where women, citing freedom of expression, can enter the adult film industry, but cannot cite freedom of religious expression to prevent being forced to direct their business creative activities to designing and baking wedding cakes for gay couples.
The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2015/06/30/the-formal-end-to-judeochristian-america-n2018986/page/full
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES GAY MARRIAGE http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf
Wayne Cordeiro https://www.facebook.com/pastorwaynecordeiro/posts/10153325310351210
Bar the doors? http://www.worldmag.com/2015/10/bar_the_doors
Now even the Salvation Army is under persecution for standing for God’s standards.
I guess I'm in the minority - as usual!
I identify myself politically - Conservative Republican since the 1950s.
I barely notice ethnicity in Asians, Hispanics, and African immigrants.
I definitely notice ethnicity in American Blacks and Middle East Muslims.
Politically, I am acutely aware that 75%-80% of non-whites vote Democrat.
Re: deign and feign
I think it’s quite possible the author did mean “feign.”
To “pretend” to speak for.
Sigh
The word you're looking for is 'deign.
The dictionary defines feign as pretending a feeling - such as nervousness. So in that sense youre right that feign is misused - except of course in the sense that liberals dont think, they feel.OTOH deign really doesnt suit either, since that would imply condescending to speak for the American people. Of course liberals condescend to people generally, but I dont think they condescend to speak for them.
I vote for arrogantly presume, myself.
I don't disagree with that, but his usage is peculiar, to say the least.
In the past I have given one dollar when I passed a bell ringer. From now on I plan to give five dollars.
I’ve been a volunteer for some Salvation Army planning committees in the past. Nicer bunch of people you could not find, both the actual army personnel and also “civilian” employees.
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