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Title: DEMONIZE AS MANY 'SOUTHERNERS' AS THE QUEER LAW WILL ALLOW (INFINITE NUMBER) - Washington Post Compares County Clerk Kim Davis to George Wallace
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URL Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bry ... clerk-kim-davis-george-wallace
Published: Sep 4, 2015
Author: By Bryan Ballas
Post Date: 2015-09-04 22:26:19 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: FIRST AMENDMENT, FREEDOM OF RELIGION
Views: 632
Comments: 18
Before Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was jailed for sticking to her religious beliefs, Janell Ross of the Washington Post was quick to take sides against her. On September 2 the Post headlined the story as follows: “We Have Reached the George Wallace Stage of the Same-Sex Marriage Fight.” Ross begins this accusation with the same amount of objectivity as her headline: There's a long and not exactly auspicious history in this country of people resisting court orders aimed at defending the civil rights of minority groups. On Tuesday, a Kentucky county clerk named Kim Davis created the basis for the latest chapter. Davis is refusing to issue marriage licenses to anyone so that she might avoid the task of having to issue or refuse to issue one to a gay or lesbian couple. (Emphasis Added) Ross is not ignorant of the religious element in this controversy: Davis is free to believe whatever she would like; this is America. However, multiple courts have said she is not at liberty to impose her beliefs at work in such a way that the legal rights, options and access of others are curtailed. Of course, from Davis's point of view — and that of many Americans who agree with her, especially white evangelicals, according to a June 2014 Public Religion Research Institute poll — forcing her to issue licenses to same-sex couples impinges on her religious liberty. Ross then compares Davis to one of America’s most infamous racists: The real issue -- if you know something about the history of American moments like the one that Davis has brought to pass, and even if you don't — is that legally, Davis has put herself in league with men like former Alabama governor George Wallace. In addition to the fact that homosexuality and race are not equivalent, Ross’s comparison fails when one realizes that Davis refused to give marriage licenses to ALL couples. This was an equal opportunity shutdown of licenses, not an exclusion of gays in particular. After reviewing a number of comments on the issue from Republican candidates, Ross compared the phrase “religious liberty” to the infamous “states’ rights” rhetoric that was used to justify America’s past evils: That kind of logic is also precisely why some people understand "religious liberty" to be the new "states' rights" — a catchphrase that sounds principled and connected with American ideals but can also be used to resist established legal change. States' rights (and its local equivalent) have in the past formed the basis of legal and public arguments for reserving the nation's best-resourced schools, neighborhoods, parks, pools and hospitals for white people. Those arguments helped keep Catholics and Jews out of public offices and certain communities, led state officials in some places to shut down all public schools rather than integrate, made it possible to impose black codes and sundown laws that made it illegal for black people to even be present in certain places in this country. And, of course, those arguments undergirded legal slavery. (Emphasis Added) It’s nice to know that the Post’s first reaction to cries for “religious liberty” is to sound the alarm of Jim Crow racism that no one is advocating. It assures its audience of quality objectivity. To her credit, Ross does not think that the Wallace comparison is a perfect fit for this situation: The parallels between Davis and Wallace, of course, have their limits. Wallace's stand at that University of Alabama door came after years of organized and sometimes loosely coordinated efforts to ignore, evade or resist the contents of court orders and laws directing the integration of public and most private facilities open to the public....[T]he showdown shaping up in Kentucky should not be understood as random or isolated. Kentucky and Alabama — states notably with large white evangelical populations — have their respective histories and must also contend with the present. Right now, Alabama is busy charting new territory in the effort to resist legal same-sex marriage. This month, a state legislative committee voted for a measure that, should it reach and pass the full state Senate, could eliminate state-issued marriage licenses. (Emphasis Added) So, the Davis phenomenon, which is apparently fueled by white evangelical populations, is arguable worse than Wallace because it is not isolated? Do black and Hispanic clergy uniformly stand against Davis? Are they divided on the issue? What about the non-religious? For someone who makes a living writing about race and equality, Ross tellingly neglects to present any data on what the black and Hispanic populations think about Davis’ decision to stand by her convictions. Ross concludes her smear against Davis with this epilogue: Americans can and do disagree about same-sex marriage. But in public life, equal treatment under the law ranks among the hallmarks of the American experiment. The struggle to make equality real — meaning consistent, unabridged and unconditional — remains an ongoing project. (Emphasis Added) Not surprisingly, Ross does not take note of the fact that legalizing homosexual marriage has not achieved equality, but merely privileged two forms of monogamy over polygamy, incest, and bestiality. Equally absent is the observance of the fact that religious freedom is spelled out as a constitutional protection while identity politics is not. Regardless of who ultimately wins the culture war over religious liberty on remains certain: the Washington Post has chosen its side.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Quash queers today, quash queers tomorrow, quash queers forever!
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
Well said, Bob.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Get your mind right. On a personal note, my good boyhood friend told me his son is gay about a year ago. My old college roommate told me his daughter might be gay/queer as you say. FWIW, I knew the kids and I don't hold it against them.
On a personal note, by good boyhood friend told me his son is gay about a year ago. My old college roommate told me his daughter might be gay/queer as you say. FWIW, I knew the kids and I don't hold it against them. ============================================== One inch = 1,000 miles. U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
I don't get it. Please explain; thanks.
It's very simple. There's to be zero tolerance for them, even as the gang here approvingly features their work -- Raimondo, Paglia etc. Now, who's going to be the first to stand up and bellow "I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT IF I'D KNOWN!!"
My old college roommate told me his daughter might be gay/queer as you say. FWIW, I knew the kids and I don't hold it against them. Not holding it against them is one thing (and a personal choice), granting the deviants legal status is quite another. "Honest, April 15th is the real April Fool's Day". Doug Scheidt
done what? I don't understand what you mean?
Unwittingly posted stuff by a fag.
Davis broke no law, she defied a court. Courts do not make law, they make rulings and rulings are not law.
Get your mind right. As long as "not hold it against them" doesn't mean endorse their sin as if its normal or acceptable. If one encounters homos, one can opt to admonish the sinner, instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful & comfort the sorrowful, which are among the spiritual works of mercy. "Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
I completely disagree with that and what it implies. As a Christian, I have to accept their shortcomings in this life and hope that they extend me the same wherever I've fallen short, and pray that we all have made things right with our Saviour. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Perfectly said, thank you. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Yes, it really is very simple. Sodomites -- as a class -- oppose everything that I support, and they support everything that I oppose. An overwhelmingly disproportionate number of child molesters and serial killers are queer. Queers vote for leftist politicians and demand legislation and public policies such as hate crimes laws that are inimical to liberty. Queers -- as a class -- have done more to eliminate free speech in this country than any other class. Queers are the champions of political correctness and the mortal enemies of free speech. Queers demand and receive not just acknowledgement and acceptance, but outright preferential treatment and recognition, in all branches government and in every major corporation. Express an unfavorable opinion of queers at work, you lose your job. If a child fails to accept gov school's faggot indoctrination with exuberant alacrity, he's castigated and he and his parents are sentenced to re- education in the gulag. Queers demand that their perverted lifestyle be not just tolerated, not just accepted, but actually celebrated. For at least the last three decades, Jewish change agents have promoted the normalization of homosexuality in TV, movies, magazines, newspapers, etc., and sadly, they have been so successful that even decent people are now afraid to denounce queerdom or even call it what is: depravity. The mating of man and woman -- male and female -- is essential and foundational to civilization and even life itself. It's what God intended and commanded. Anyone who is amiss on that fundamental issue is in serious error. There are some whose confusion is due to a hormonal complication or to having been victim of a pedophile in their formative years -- these people deserve our pity and our help. But there is a large class of queers -- the majority of them, in fact -- who actually push the sodomite agenda. They seek societal approbation of queers and their unseemly vile affections, and as a result, draw others into that sordid lifestyle. These are reprobate devils from Hell, and I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility and opposition to them. So, it really is very simple. There's a war being waged against our culture. And queers are, in the main, on the side of our enemies. Whether anyone here at Freedom4um has ever unwittingly posted an article authored by a fag is irrelevant.
Wittingly or unwittingly, it's still irrelevant.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Well, my stuff has haply had a highish rate of response on this page. My sanity depends on constant give-and-take with fellow extremists -- a needed antidote to the Stepfordized world at large! Oops, meant to aim this at "All". Too late.
Yep, we can edit everything here except the Title, and the To lines; a pity, but that's the way that it is.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
“We Have Reached the George Wallace Stage of the Same-Sex Marriage Fight.”
#2. To: StraitGate (#1)
#3. To: Dakmar (#2)
#4. To: StraitGate (#1)
(Edited)
Quash queers today, quash queers tomorrow, quash queers forever!
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
Get your mind right.
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#5)
One inch = 1,000 miles.
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
#8. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
On a personal note, my good boyhood friend told me his son is gay about a year ago.
#9. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)
Now, who's going to be the first to stand up and bellow "I WOULDN'T HAVE DONE IT IF I'D KNOWN!!"
#10. To: christine (#9)
#11. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
#12. To: Fred Mertz, straitgate (#4)
Quash queers today, quash queers tomorrow, quash queers forever!
#13. To: NeoconsNailed, 4 (#7)
There's to be zero tolerance for them...
#14. To: Artisan (#12)
...admonish the sinner, instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful & comfort the sorrowful, which are among the spiritual works of mercy.
#15. To: NeoconsNailed (#7)
It's very simple.
#16. To: StraitGate (#15)
#17. To: StraitGate (#15)
(Edited)
#18. To: NeoconsNailed (#17)
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