Posted on 08/04/2012 3:40:28 AM PDT by markomalley
The homosexual lobby wants to outlaw Christianity. This is the real meaning behind the uproar over Chick-fil-A. The chicken sandwich franchise has become a lightning rod for the culture war. Liberals despise it; conservatives back it. Supporters of gay marriage want to prevent the Atlanta-based chain from expanding, demanding new restaurant permits be denied.
The reason: Its CEO Dan Cathy opposes same-sex marriage. In an interview with the Baptist Press, Mr. Cathy was asked his views on the issue. He said that he supports the “biblical definition of the family unit.” Meaning — horror of all horrors — that Mr. Cathy believes marriage should be between a man and a woman. That such a common-sense view could be controversial in today’s America shows how far society has fallen.
Anti-Christian activists immediately called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel publicly vilified the chain. He claimed that Chick-fil-A does not share “Chicago values.” Mr. Emanuel said the restaurant was not welcome in the Windy City. Yet, he warmly embraced Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. According to Mr. Emanuel, a Christian family man expressing his private opinion defending traditional marriage is an extremist, while a radical black nationalist and vile anti-Semite is acceptable.
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The left’s goal is to reduce Christians to permanent second-class citizens. Now they are coming for our freedom of speech. This is Christophobia — the dominant bigotry of our time. Christians unite, before it’s too late.
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Great post!
what about when the budget being discussed includes funding for murdering babies?
They will do it again.
Unfortunately, as time goes by, I find that “Fiscal Conservatives” tend to be neither.
So we don’t need to concern ourselves with moral issues?
Abortion is a moral issue and is governed by man-made laws. How do you feel about Planned Parenthood? I see you support the American Cancer Society, which supports PP.
http://www.lifenews.com/2007/03/13/nat-2982/
Do you support abortion?
John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
George Washington declared in his Farewell Address, “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.” Later in his Farewell Address Washington went on to say, “Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”
AMEN!
I will repost this because I believe it is relevant:
The Left’s culture is based upon moral relativism. It is a very seductive morality because it functions as a self centered pursuit of pleasure. Moral relativism is a set-up for Marxism. By making ones moral thinking no more important than the other you set the stage for political, economic, legal and material egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is a system which renders human beings as equal. To reach such a Utopian society, one utilizes the state to redistribute all aspects of human life until all are equal.
Just a side light: The goal of gay marriage is the egalitarian treatment of human relationships. When the gay relationship is equal to the heterosexual relationship, the egalitarian objective is accomplished.
The opposition by the gay community and their abortionist cohorts to the Christian Church is an effort to transform society by either eliminating or retooling the Church. When you put everything they are doing into one description, they are minimizing the importance of life that is produced by the relationship between a man and a woman. Once life is redefined by the egalitarian paradigm, life does not have any more protection or significance than that which is determined by the state.
Life produced by a man and a woman no longer has that level of significance that our culture has given it through the ages. This is a part of the Marxist strategy. Human life must no longer have that transcendent importance that sets it above the state. Human life is now the property of the state to define as it wants and to use as it sees fit.
As the love relationship of heterosexual marriage and the beginning of human life are being attacked by the Marxist’s effort to transform our society, one can only wonder what’s next?
With their Children and Grandparents in the same room.
If they think it's good enough for schools then.....
America is paying attention this election but I don't think the RATs are
expecting the outcome. We'll deal with Boehner after.
For the last 160 years--slavery, darkness and death. With over 100 million souls dispatched and counting.
By the way--excellent post--you nailed the entire moral bankruptcy of Marxism, Communism,the Left, the mainstream media and the Democrat Party.
Well done.
The Homosexual Nazis made me wear this armband!
(white background, cross in the middle)
Thanks.. Just downloaded and printed up some of these for my vehicles.
Once comedians got major laughs by attacking Catholics, why wouldn't they broaden their routine to include all Christians and why wouldn't everyone with an anti-Christ agenda see the laughing crowds as a signal to start their own anti-Christ attacks? Once it's socially acceptable to attack the twenty percent of the Christian population who are Catholic, it's socially acceptable to attack all Christians who don't buy into the "go along to get along" meme. The next time someone starts in on Christians in general, mentally substitute “Catholic” for "Christian" in what they're saying and ask yourself if you'd object to what's being said if it were only about Catholics. Likewise, the next time you hear jokes and slanders about Catholics, mentally substitute "Christian" for "Catholic" and you'll be hearing what the person talking is really saying.
Half the people who claim to be Christian have ignored deliberate lies and twisted tales about Catholics for so long that they're already immune to a great deal of the anti-Christian garbage at large in society. For example, I know a good number of people who go to church every Sunday and represent themselves as solid Christians. They have no problem renting and laughing at Dogma, though, or laughing at a comedian who builds half his routine around jokes about the Catholic Church. Whether you're Catholic or not, it's time people realized that those aren't "only" attacks on the Catholic Church; they're methodical attacks on Christianity and Christ.
If the fascist crowd can intimidate the majority of Christians into not standing for their faith intimidating them into not defying the fascist agenda is easy. Things of this nature are ground exceedingly fine, so it can't be much longer before all the popular anti-Catholic lies so many who claim to be Christian go along with get turned on Christians in general, one denomination or group at a time. You reap what you sow and it's harvest time for the folks who have long ignored lies about Catholicism, or gone along with portraying someone doesn't abide by Church teaching as a typical Catholic.
As a nation we've ignored decade after decade of carefully crafted attacks aimed at dividing the population into mutually antagonistic groups. Now that we're divided up a hundred different ways, either we'll unite or they'll conquer. The most logical place to start unifying is around Christ our King.
JMHO
The pagans are becoming very assertive too because they know they have the power of government--as well as the media--behind their positions.
“AFAIK, Mr. Cathy never said he wouldn’t sell a sandwich to a starving queer, did he?”
He specifically said they hire and serve every person with dignity.
They went the extra mile during the protests, serving FREE cups of ice water to the protesters.
And the economy. One of the five pillars of an economy is raw materials/natural resources. The attack on oil/coal/natural gas production is obvious.
That company was being attacked decades ago for being openly Christian and closing on Sunday. I was told then by ardent leftists and atheists that they had no right to do this. The Ten Commandments in courthouses, Christmas displays on the public square, prayer in schools ... decades. Most of my life, in fact.
Bringing denominations into this does not serve any good purpose. It serves to divide. All Christian denominations have been under attack and many have been corrupted, some verging upon irretrievably so, it would appear. Others reached a precipice of sorts with infiltration and are now fighting back, to their credit. Others still held true to God’s Word and are thriving. These especially are the object of leftist wrath today.
Leave the theological debate over differences for a different discussion and debate. Unity here is highly appropriate and necessary. We have far more common ground than disagreements.
Leave it for another day.
That's a strawman. That's not what I said. In fact, I said just the opposite. If the people refuse to enforce a strong moral code in society independent of government, then we compel the government to enforce its own version of morality. That's the environment that produces long lines of Christians, Jews, Muslims, the rich, radio talk show hosts, libertarians, etc. waiting for their turn with the headsman. The tyranny of the mob.
This is why we must remain engaged on enforcing a strong, common Judeo Cristian moral code in society - not government. That is the necessary, not optional, corollary of small government.
Let me try to guess the next straw man. I am not saying everyone needs to be a Christian. That's not what I just said. Religious tolerance, however, is a Christian concept and part of that moral code I'm talking about. Those who think atheism is a tolerant religion have never attempted to be a Christian or a Jew in a atheistic state. Even agnosticism often tends to be thinly veiled atheism and thus becomes hostile to other forms of religion. A tolerant secular government is not possible without this moral code I'm talking about.
The bottom line is that if we all can't converge on some basic civilized moral principles, regardless of our religion, then we're doomed to become subjects, not citizens. These include, but are not limited to:
1) Childbirth out of wedlock is bad and should be shunned (notice I didn't say outlawed),
2) Able bodied adults living off the fruits of other peoples labor is bad a should be shunned
3) Charity for those in need, however, is good and should be encouraged,
4) Marriage exists to serve the needs of children by assuring as many as possible have both a Mom and a Dad raising them. It does not exist to serve the selfish or sexual needs of the people getting married. Thus, the definition of marriage that best serves society is one man, one woman in a lifelong contract.
5) Honesty is good and liars should be shunned (notice I didn't say outlawed outside of perjury of course),
6) Adultery is bad and should be shunned (notice I didn't say outlawed)
7) selfishness and brazenly flaunting your wealth is bad and should be shunned (notice I didn't say outlawed)
We can and do haggle over that list all day long, but that's not my point. The point is if we don't make morality part of small government conservatism, then we're failing to learn from history.
I forgot to remember the name of the freeper that I stole this from to credit him/her.
I printed it full page size and put it on a thin cardboard, placing it right behind my head so as not to obstruct my rear vision. Then I drove down to our CFA yesterday to see if any kissing queers were there.
“And the economy. One of the five pillars of an economy is raw materials/natural resources. The attack on oil/coal/natural gas production is obvious.”
I concur. I was placing all of that under the broad category of “property,” but it could indeed be separate. We could also use the word “industry” referring both to an individual’s labor, and also to private business.
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