Posted on 04/03/2015 9:03:31 AM PDT by lqcincinnatus
Thanks to brilliant tactics by gay activists, huge doses of corporate hypocrisy, tongue-tied politicians, and the silence of religious leaders -- religious liberty lost big battles in Indiana and Arkansas this week.
Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote a column in The Washington Post deploring a "dangerous happening" of a "wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states" that would "allow people to discriminate against their neighbors."
For example, he said Indiana and Arkansas passed laws that would allow individuals to "cite their personal religious beliefs to refuse service to a customer." Incorrect. First, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) Cook was speaking about was passed by 19 states many years ago. Second, none have been used to undermine anti-discrimination laws.
However, his biggest hypocrisy is that Apple does business in scores of Arab and African countries where a homosexual is more likely to get stoned than protected. "When was the last time Cook objected to a single act of discrimination in any of these countries? Never. He hasn't. He doesn't," asserted Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, quoting "RedState."
(Excerpt) Read more at virtueonline.org ...
“Only in American can Christians be bullied and the crowds of popular culture cry More! “
France
Germany
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Indonesia
(insert about 70 more countries here)
“brilliant” tactics? Not at all. “Deceptive” tactics and lying are much more accurate. They’re just willing to stoop lower that’s all.
“Gay Rights”
What his demands have to do with “gay rights” eludes me. It has everything to do with using the government to compel behavior and violate religious rights.
Is this headline written by one of the 10 - 15 tweeters from the Soro’s camp?
Well TImmy, we can refuse to buy apple on those grounds too.
This is all about one thing and one thing only ... money. Money in America, money in politics trumps EVERYTHING. Our politicians, even some of the ones we “like” are nothing but bought and paid for corporate shills. Rest assured that Christianity, wholesale, will be thrown under the closest bus JUST as soon as they think it is in their financial interest ... and be assured that some current conservative “heroes” will lead the way. Oh they’ll call it something else or blame someone else, but they will be the ones doing it.
This is not actually about “religious liberty”, that is one facet of what is happening in this country. You have to see the bigger picture. We no longer live in a free country, we now live in a fascist country.
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Once upon a time, not very long ago, we lived in a country ruled by law under the Constitution of the United States. The people were free, they knew a government that abides by the Constitution could never take away their God-given freedoms recognized in the Bill of the Rights.
In that free country we were told that “dissent was patriotic”, that the minority viewpoint was protected and anyone was allowed to think what they like, even if it was unpopular. We had the freedoms of speech, religion and association among many others.
We had a government constrained, more or less, by the Constitution. We had a President who could not make law on his own, that was what Congress was for, we had a Supreme Court that could throw out illegal actions of the other branches. The Constitution spelled out the delegated powers of the federal government, and also told us what the government could not do.
Today we no longer have any of this. We have a government that feels unconstrained by the basic law of the country, the Constitution, and can do what it likes. The border is left wide open for foreign invasion while Americans are told to quit complaining about being forced to pay for them, guns are distributed to drug lords while it seeks to disarm Americans. Congress has become a footnote, failing to do even its most basic duties for 6-7 years in a row, such as passing an annual budget.
Today we live in a country where those with “unpopular” viewpoints are hunted down by media outlets and lawyers and forced into hiding by the lynch-mobs they incite. The freedom of religion has become the freedom from religion, unpopular opinions are treated as an offense against humanity.
Once we had a vibrant democracy to elect our government representatives, now we have a government that uses its power to shut down opposition voices. Criminals in the government that are caught suppressing political speech are rewarded and whistle-blowers, once protected, are fired and treated as criminals.
The people who once demanded tolerance and equality are now using the power of government, courts and their media to shut down their opponents and run them out of business. The laws no longer apply equally, some have been given special rights while others are losing real rights.
Imagine a country where the new laws are different for different people, laws that apply to you may not apply to your neighbor. This was once a concept that people found revolting, segregation and Jim Crow laws, but today it has become accepted orthodoxy.
A country where a Christian bakery owner can be prosecuted in criminal court and thrown in jail, fined, forced to do things that violates her beliefs while a Muslim bakery owner knows he will not be prosecuted for the exact same thing.
A country where a pizzeria can be forced to close because a media-incited lynch mob without it ever having done anything wrong. Where even media outlets will applaud death threats against its owner, while if the pizzeria next door actively discriminated it would be left alone if the owner were one of the “protected classes”.
The United States has slipped decidedly toward fascism, where the media hunts down dissent – from certain classes and groups – and makes them targets for the brownshirts. The United States of today looks a lot like the Germany of the 1930’s.
The children of today may never understand what a “free country” looked like.
Homosexual rights are paramount. That’s why the First Amendment focuses on homosexual rights.
Today we live in a country where those with “unpopular” viewpoints are hunted down by media outlets and lawyers and forced into hiding by the lynch-mobs they incite. The freedom of religion has become the freedom from religion, unpopular opinions are treated as an offense against humanity.
14th Amendment, Section 1:All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Note that the “privileges or immunities” term which John Bingham, the main author of Section 1, used in that section is just another way to refer to constitutionally enumerated rights, most of these well-known rights, including 1st Amendment-protected freedom of religious expression, listed in the Bill of Rights.
Someone wants said a free country is one where the minority viewpoint is not oppressed.
To revise the end of his piece:
My question is why do [homosexuals] and lesbians, who are only 1.7 percent of the population, get all of the tolerance while Christians aren't tolerated?
To provide for rights based on a “sinful lifestyle choice.”
Can you prove it is from Soros camp?
The tactics are not brilliant. The judges are corrupt.
From change.org
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Leftists are harassing those donating and trying to shut down the fundraising
> Can you prove it is from Soros camp?
Rush stated on the radio yesterday that he had seen some type of proof that the thousands of posts that were reportedly posted by LGBT outragees came from 10 - 15 people tweeting and posting about the Meridin Pizzeria and that they were paid by Soros to do it
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