Posted on 11/30/2018 6:18:32 PM PST by marshmallow
AUSTIN, Texas, November 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Churches have no right to insist on employees that accept and practice their faith’s teachings on homosexuality, according to Austin officials defending an “anti-discrimination” ordinance currently being challenged by two socially conservative groups.
The local ordinance guarantees “the opportunity for each person to obtain employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability.”
It contains an exception for “an employer to hire and employ employees” if one’s sexual orientation or gender identity is a “bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary for the normal operation of a particular business or enterprise,” as well as religious entities’ right to “hire and employ individuals of a particular religion.” But it doesn’t expressly state that a church’s beliefs about such issues qualify.
In a federal lawsuit filed against the city, the Houston-based U.S. Pastor Council argues that the lack of clear exemptions threatens to force 25 churches it’s representing to accept homosexual or gender-confused individuals even as clergy, as well as restricts their right to maintain longstanding restrictions on female clergy.
The group Texas Values has also filed a lawsuit challenging the ordinance purely under state law, arguing more broadly for the rights of “nonprofits or closely held corporations who would be compelled” to “act in a manner contrary to their sincerely held religious beliefs.” As examples it cites nonprofits such as themselves who exist to advance specific beliefs, or religious landlords who may “require their tenants to refrain from non-marital sex or homosexual behavior when renting their property,”
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The founders would have stood up to this tyranny long ago and shut it down.
Today they would be saying anyone who fails to show up armed for battle to execute all of these aspiring tyrants will also be executed as co-conspirators.
This is where so-called “tolerance” leads to: tyranny.
Once a good old boy from Georgia decided he’d try his hand at raising hogs so he got himself two beautiful sows, big ones, and they had such personality too.
About four months passed and the guy thought he’d got the hang of tending hogs and was finally ready so he called up this buddy of his who had a champion boar and made a date for his sows. Just a sawbuck per pig.
They didn’t want to get in the back of his truck, but he got them there and introduced them to their boar.
“How do I know if it took?” he asked his friend.
“Tomorrow morning if they’re sunbathing it took. But if they’re wallowing in the mud bring them right back ... with another sawbuck apiece for my time.”
The next morning they were wallowing and again they didn’t want to get in the truck but when they got to that boar they seemed happy.
The next morning they were wallowing again and this was getting expensive. With no fuss they got up in the back of his truck and once there a wild piggly orgy commenced.
The next morning the good old boy didn’t want to look so he sent his wife to look for him.
“Were they wallowing again?”
“No.”
“You mean they were finally sunning themselves?”
“No, they’re in the cab of your truck pounding on the horn.”
... I tell this story mainly to show what’s funny when talking livestock is anything but when talking people.
Pigs smarter than their farmer, too. Ha!
Smart pigs they got a lesser species to give them free food. Free rent. Free transport. And paid- for sex orgies, too. Where do I signup?
Problem is that ham and eggs is just a contribution for the chicken but a commitment for the hog.
... which sounds a lot like the thing with baby daddy’s too ... now that I think of it.
There used to be a piggery we kids would go visit to watch the pigs play in the mud. They were remarkably intelligent. More intelligent for sure ( abd much better character) then many modern- day politicians. Much cleaner too
Austin is giving Ithaca a heck of a run for its money.
The Steam Ship (SS) Politician.
An 8000 ton merchantman that went down carting booze and government money....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Politician
This WILL come to violence. Count on it. The Left means to force every one of us to genuflect to the homosexual religion. I will not comply.
Ping. Oh dear.
ROTFL. Yeah. Okay. Celebrate sexual deviancy!
Sorry, but any right to be “gay” does not turn that into a legal demand that any employer MUST hire you and most particularly not a religious order with religious values opposed to your “life style”. To me this type of case is the same as that of the bakeries that won’t do “gay” wedding cakes - their freedom of religion means they cannot be forced to play a supporting role in behaviors they do not support due to their faith.
Soon all Biblically sound churches will be forced underground. The day is coming when the only openly practiced religion will be the mystery Babylon religion of the false prophet. It is coming soon....
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