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2012 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon
Posted on 04/08/2014 4:17:05 PM PDT by Morgana
PORTLAND, OR, April 8, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A soon-to-be opened natural foods store in Oregon is in danger of never opening its doors after homosexual activists publicized remarks its Mormon owner made online supporting true marriage and organized a boycott targeting not just the store, but its suppliers.
Chauncy Childs had planned to open Moreland Farmers Pantry, an organic, locally-sourced grocery store, in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland. But because of comments she made under a pseudonym during a discussion on Facebook last year in which she defended true marriage and said business owners should have the right to refuse to serve gay weddings, homosexual activists have threatened her entire supply chain with boycotts unless they agree to pull their products from her shelves.
“Here is a current list of Moreland Farmers Pantry vendors, from their website. We will be posting their contact information shortly,” the boycott organizers wrote on Facebook. “If you’re a vendor on this list, who has pulled your product from their shelves, please let us know and you will be removed from this list.”
Local pro-homosexual activist Sean O’Riordan, whose late brother died of AIDS and whose wife is bisexual, first publicized Childs’ comments, which were posted under the alias Lynn Brice. In a YouTube video, O’Riordan went through a list of things Childs posted that he found offensive, and urged people to boycott her store.
Among the comments that offended O’Riordan:
There are real repercussions to redefining marriage, serious ones, and they have everything to do with equality and respect and the traditional, God-given right of the citizens of this country. We are throwing the baby out with the bath water in order to satisfy a minority who are militant and bent on more than "justice."
It causes me the greatest sadness to see our country so divided, our civilized society so ripped at the seams because of the intolerance of religion and morality and the rule of law, and the will of the people as in the case of Prop. 8, a legally voted upon statute upheld by the citizens of the state of California and then struck down by a few activist judges. It is wrong, and it is destroying us.
Yes, I am a Christian. I believe the Bible. I do not support homosexuality or homosexual ‘marriage.’ Yes, I still love you. Yes, we are still friends. No, I am not judging you. No, I am not condemning you to hell. No, I will not let anyone bully you. But realize that name-calling and stereotyping those of us who stand for what we believe is exactly what you don’t want done to you.
On a Facebook group supporting the boycott, O’Riordan’s wife, Rachael Stephens, explained, “We were all excited about this cool new store going in until the rumor mill started. People started googling, mrs child's fb [sic] page came up and her posts were found offensive by many. Rumors were circulating, people wanted to know what was true and what could be done.”
Click "like" if you want to defend true marriage.
“My husband, Sean O’Riordan stepped up for our community, our neighborhood, our friends, for me who represents the B in LGBT, for his dearly departed brother who was gay and because he has a working moral compass. He made the video to inform, squash rumors and allow people to decide whether or not they want to shop there based on FACTS, not rumor, that he so concisely laid out in the video.”
The boycott supporters’ actions have been compared to those who supported the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich earlier this month after it was discovered he had made a $1,000 contribution to support California’s Proposition 8 in 2008.
Like Eich, Childs assured her detractors that her personal religious beliefs will have no bearing on the way she runs her business, and that homosexuals will be as welcome to shop and work at her store as anyone else. Childs even donated $1,000 to a local gay organization as a gesture of goodwill, and encouraged others to do the same.
But that wasn’t enough for the activists who want her store shut down.
“It's too late Chauncy. Cut your ties with our community and leave,” read one particularly blunt post by the administrators of the “Boycott Moreland Farmers Pantry” Facebook page.
“One donation is one step,” wrote boycott supporter Kelly Burke. “But time and future actions will tell if that step was towards a true embracing of others or just a step to quiet the negative attention. We all have a choice how we spend our time and money. Mine will be spent elsewhere until there is a long track record - one as well documented as her intolerant views - that proves she acts otherwise.”
Another boycott supporter, Amanda Brewer Valley, said that she “would like to see them donate a portion of their proceeds to LGBTQ youth organizations in perpetuity.” But she added, “I am still not shopping there.”
bang, bang, bang........
Can anyone tell me how she was tagged as the person, if she was using a pseudonym when she posted it?
In fact, as mentioned in related threads, the Supreme Court had decided against Virginia Minor's argument in Minor v. Happersett that her citizenship automatically gave her the right to vote because she thought that the Equal Protections Clause of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment meant that her state could not prohibit her right to sufferage because she was a woman.
The reason that the Court decided against Minor is because it clarified that the Equal Protections Clause did not add any new protections to the Constitution, that it just strengthened existing protections.
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had (emphasis added).” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
What the Equal Protection Clause does, imo, is to prohibit the states from making excuses to discriminate against groups within a group, such as prohibiting Irish Catholic men from voting for example.
Otherwise the states are free to make laws which discriminate on the basis of anything not expressly protected by the Constitution, as long as such laws don't unreasonably discriminate against anything which is expressly protected.
Also note that Minor's fight was eventually rewarded when the states later ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which effectivelly gave women the right to vote.
So which is the greater crime, abusing government power to discriminate against rights which are expressly protected by the Constitution, or not bothering to read what Constitution says in the first place?
Eugene, Springfield and the Portland area are filled with the vilest of leftist scum.
The rural areas are entirely different. SW OR has become more liberal due to leftist scum from CA moving here and some hippies who already lived here; but even some of the hippies are conservative.
It’s like black and white. The rural parts of OR are getting extremely fed up being ruled by a few cities. There is a seccession movement make some noise, Southern OR and some northern counties of CA - the State of Jefferson. I’m all for it.
Central west — liberal around Eugene
Central east — conservative all over.
The only blue areas basically are Portland, Eugene and Corvallis. The rest is all red.
Reminds of the “Men On....” skits on In Living Color.
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2012 Presidential General Election Results - Oregon
Here come the K-Y Nazis!
Well, didn’t the Organizer in Chief proclaim, “If they bring a knife, We bring a gun?” Lots of community organizing going on right now. Expect it to get worse as they start having small victories. Respond with violence and the enemedia and the Just Us department will be all over you like stink on $%!#.
QUEERS should be arrested for possessing WMD`s:
WEAPONS OF MARRIAGE DESTRUCTION
Undoubtedly her online footprints are not properly placed as to confuse the enemy. Always field dress your online cigarettes, and never overlook an opportunity to keep your big mouth shut.
Queers: "We are the 3.5%."
A very. very small majority. Pay no attention to them. Let them rant, let them rave. Remember, there are many suppliers.
Could you elaborate? All Freepers will be fired etc. eventually?
Queers: "We are the 3.5%."
A very. very small majority. Pay no attention to them. Let them rant, let them rave. Remember, there are many suppliers.
Of course 1.9% (NOT 3.5%) of a population can't wield this much power. Homo's are wielded by the entire liberal Left because they know that it's the most disgusting bludgeon against conservatives and normal people.
They're like the horse's head put under the bed covers.
Yikes! I’m glad you said those colors were reversed.
Yes, Portland and the college towns are liberal. I didn’t realize so much of the coast was too. Probably people moving up here from CA.
Write and support this business and order products if you can.
I will have no dealings with faggots.
FMCDH(BITS)
Get a list of suppliers and threaten to boycott their products in the event they fail to supply the store. Then e-mail bomb them with similar. Let the suppliers realize there are a lot more of us than the homonazis.
The fags trying to ruin Chick-fil-A had it backfire big time, the chain has now passed KFC as the nation’s top fast food chicken chain.
"My counsel has advised me that I have not waived my constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment, and on his advice, I will decline to answer any question on the subject matter of this hearing".
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