Posted on 04/04/2014 4:19:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Six years ago, Brendan Eich contributed $1000.00 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California that sought to preserve marriage between one man and one woman. Eich recently became chief executive officer of the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla, part of the Mozilla Foundation, oversees pieces of the Mozilla web browser Firefox -- an open source rival to Internet Explorer, Safari, and others.
Half the board resigned when Mozilla named Eich the CEO. The online dating service OKCupid called for a boycott of Mozilla. Contributing to an unpopular cause six years ago -- during a time the left claimed "dissent is patriotic" -- is enough to blacklist Eich. The objections to his hire are not based on his competence, experience or resume but on $1000.00.
Nate Silver, formerly of the New York Times and his own political prognostication website fivethirtyeight.com, allowed Colorado professor Roger Pielke to pen a thoughtful piece on the impact of climate change. Pielke agrees with the community of global warming believers that man is causing the world to heat up. But Pielke argued, with data, that the increase in weather-related damage is not necessarily because of global warming. Additionally, he advocates adapting to global warming instead of wasting resources trying to end it.
The left quickly denounced Pielke and Silver. Silver's competitors roundly attacked his entire enterprise for daring to give a heretic a voice. Silver, naturally, distanced himself from Pielke, writing, "Roger's article ... contained an implicit policy recommendation in its closing paragraph. Whether or not the recommendation was justified by Roger's thesis and evidence, we generally prefer to avoid these kind of recommendations, and instead allow readers to draw any policy conclusions for themselves."
Former Washington Post liberal blogger Ezra Klein has a new liberal blog site called Vox that purports to "explain" the news. The explanations have a helpful liberal spin that General Electric is helpfully underwriting with advertising dollars. But Klein hired Brandon Ambrosino for his venture. Ambrosino is a liberal gay male who has enraged the gay community by writing, among other things, that the gay left "routinely scour the private lives and social media accounts of our political opponents in the hopes of demonizing them as archaic, unthinking and bigoted"
For these and other sins, Ambrosino has made himself an enemy to the very group of which he is a part. Ezra Klein has been forced into repentance, claiming he will ensure Ambrosino's work is properly edited.
Last week in Texas, Republican gubernatorial nominee and current Attorney General Greg Abbott released a comprehensive education plan for Texas. It is thorough, well-documented and heavy on citations. But one of those citations comes from well-respected scholar Charles Murray. Murray's work on IQ has, for years, been badly mischaracterized by the left. Liberal journalists in Texas, joining the Democrats' gubernatorial nominee Wendy Davis, are now willingly painting Greg Abbott as a racist for relying on Murray's work. In doing so, they are again misrepresenting Murray's work, largely because it ran afoul of acceptable standards of political correctness.
The anti-Christian left has often brought up Galileo Galilei in its attacks on both Christianity and skeptics of science. Galileo believed the earth orbited around the sun, or "heliocentrism." The prevailing view of the age, held by the Catholic Church, was that every object in the sky orbited the earth. The Roman Inquisition in 1616 declared heliocentrism "formally heretical." Luckily for Galileo, Pope Urban VIII was not a member of the increasingly intolerant left. The Pope encouraged Galileo to write a book giving arguments both for and against heliocentrism.
The left in the United States increasingly refuses even to consider other arguments. Children must be taught only the left's arguments. Scholars and pundits must only share the left's views. Any other views must be marginalized, silenced or punished. Those who hold unpopular views must be shunned, fired or re-educated.
Evil in the world has always behaved thusly -- it preaches tolerance until it is dominant. Then it seeks to silence good. The left should be wary that its behavior in civil society increasingly mirrors this historic pattern.
AMEN!
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Your mother bequeathed you with two things:
the brains to figure out that she was wrong and
the backbone to follow your own conscience and path.
Honest question: Was there no father in your life?
Usually dads teach us to deal with adult authority, both male and female. Dads are really indispensable for this task.
Your mother wasn't stupid, she was, my guess is, foolish and arrogant. The "leader" of the seven deadly sins is pride (arrogance).
That is why I put such liberal fools on mental ignore.
THANK YOU. Share with your friends. Ask them to share with their friends.
It starts with one. Am reading on other sites, many doing the same
Oh yeah, he was there too, but he was a deranged liberal too
A long time ago I asked that same question of a priest, an old guy. He said that it shows a malformed conscience.
Perhaps that's one for God to finally decide.
Also, given the society we live in I find it hard to believe that the intrinsic sin can't be "figured out," undone or mitigated in some way. That ability is "intrinsic" to humans: we can change, if we really want to. We aren't "old dogs" who are unable to learn new behaviors.
Just an opinion.
It sounds as if he was mother's "Yes and amen male."
I use the word "male" instead of "man" because it shows who "wore the pants," so to speak, in that family.
However, half of your genes are his. I wonder how that played out in your decision.
“I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
Bammy and his Regime of queers & Muslims is walking talking proof that Petronius was correct.
In my personal work, i have much dealings with the homosexual community for many many years. Most good upstanding and fine folks. Misguided but good people who work very hard. However, I have also had to deal with homosexuals that am pretty sure are demonic possessed. Am thinking thats what we have happening. This is nothing less than demonic behaviour..
He was a Catholic journalist who fought against the Bishops, he had his own resentment against capitalists and despised every boss he had. Lots of getting fired and insecurity.
It was not a pretty picture.
What did you replace it with?
“The Silent Church will bring down America.”
Of course the “Church” is silent - the clergy is busy empire building, debauching alter boys and whatever female they can manage. All denominations seem to have this problem.
In the final analysis, the members always had to deal with rogue clergy and the present is no different than the past. As it is with government, so it is with religions and churches - like fish, the rot always starts at the top.
Chop, chop!
Islam is war plan masquerading as a religion. Its ‘leaders’ are preoccupied with boys, bombs and small livestock.
The Oregonian published an article today pointing and targeting the traditional marriage views of a new business owner. The gaystopo is alive and well.
I disagree with the approach this Eich guy took.
He should have refused to resign, and held a press conference where he spoke glowingly of gay rights and revealed his new-found support for gay marriage, even pledging to give $2000 to gay rights organizations, go through sensitivity training, give repentance speeches to gay youth groups, etc.
All the while using his eyelids to blink out “TORTURE” in Morse Code ..
yldstrk, thank you for sharing a snapshot of your story. Glad you were able to focus for something good. Some say its really not a lost generation. More like you and that will be true
I’ve been using Google Chrome at work, so I installed that at home. I know, probably not much better politically, but I don’t know who is.
Conservative sites need to do what this OKcupid site did: when someone attempts to access with Firefox, throw up a pop up calling Mozilla out for Facism and encouraging them to switch to an alternate ...
You had it coming from both sides, didn't you?
Kudos for your backbone and courage to follow your own path.
I hope your parents find peace. Maybe your father will discover some day that true peace comes from our Lord. It's never too late for that realization to become a reality.
He needs some heavy duty prayers, don't you think?
“They have declared their hatred of me, he considers me an enemy...”
The late David Wilkerson (Sword & the Switchblade) received a vision from the Lord in the early 70s concerning last days. It was so vivid, he was led to write it in a book enetitled “The Vision.”
Everything has come to pass in this vision, including nude dancing in the church.
It takes about 40 minutes to listen to all parts of the sermon. Christians are in for a wild ride. Pray for the persecuted church. (us)
THE VISION PART 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnbpGCrc1zg
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5VPwHDwEg
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4i6q07j59k
DAVID WILKERSON’S THE VISION PART 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYgiHFcR-JM
David was an incredible man and a beautiful ministry. I will have to view. His books were amazing. Thank you for sharing
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