Posted on 07/28/2014 5:22:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A newspaper editor was fired after comparing gays to Nazis. Now he claims his First Amendment rights to write stupid things were violated.
In April, the goateed editor of the Jasper County, Iowa Newton Daily News, Bob Eschliman, took to his personal blog to talk about Jesus and compare homosexuals to the Gestapo, as one does. When he was then fired, he felt as though he was under attack for his personal choice to live as he pleases — according to his interpretation of the Bible — and presumably saw no irony in that whatsoever.
His incendiary post was promptly deleted (along with the rest of the blog) after being flagged by journalist Jim Romenesko, but it read, in part: "[Jesus] said there would be deceivers. He said those deceivers would cause Christians who remain true to His teachings to become reviled. He said false prophets would follow to deceive even more, and that lawlessness will abound…If you ask me, it sounds like the Gaystapo is well on its way. We must fight back against the enemy."
Eschliman also cleverly referred to non-heterosexuals as "the LGBTQXYZ crowd." With wordsmiths like these in charge, it is sure difficult to believe that print is dying.
After firing Eschliman, the Newton Daily News published an editorial, which stated that although the First Amendment "prohibits the making of any law that impedes the free exercise of religion…" it "does not eliminate responsibility and accountability for one's words and actions."
Eschliman took this to mean that his First Amendment rights were violated, and teamed up with the Liberty Institute, a right-wing Christian advocacy group, to sue — just like Jesus would have done....
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They’ll always be Fudge Nazis to me.
The Lesvonians are themselves sick of stuff like that.
He forgot the sexually confused !!
Well, since he was the aggrieved party perhaps its more noteworthy that those who did the FIRING in the NAME of TOLERANCE saw no irony at all.
Seems like the progressive fascists are blaming the victim again.
Major lezbo vibe from the article. Also, this is not ‘comparing’. The Nazis, at least a large cadre of them, were sodomites. That’s a documented fact.
They came for the straits, and I said nothing.
I hear that Lesbians are not as obtrusive as homo men because they stack well
“I hear that Lesbians are not as obtrusive as homo men because they stack well”
Lesbians are also less abrasive because they are self lubricating.
Yeah. I had to say it.
Will we end up in a civil war? I think eventually we will. What will be the tipping point?
I say when, because it's not an if. EMP, Comet, Economic Collapse, pick one.
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