Posted on 06/10/2016 4:47:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
The people of North Carolina and the alumni of N.C. State University deserve an apology. Administrators at the school have implemented a patently unconstitutional policy, which forces students to apply for a permit in order to share the gospel on a public university campus they fund with their hard earned tax dollars. To make matters worse, the permit policy is being used to target Christians specifically while others are being allowed to exercise their rights unfettered. Now that a federal judge has called their bluff, the lawless North Carolina attorney general continues to defend the indefensible.
Roy Cooper had the unmitigated gall to recently send two feminist lawyers – Kimberly Potter and Stephanie Brennan – into federal court to defend a policy that cannot possibly survive constitutional muster. On its face, the policy cannot be defended because even public high school students who have taken ninth grade civics know that the Constitution is the only speech permit you need to share the gospel on a university campus.
But the decision to spend tax dollars sending Potter and Brennan into the courtroom was even worse given that the plaintiffs had clear evidence that the speech permit policy was only being enforced against Christians. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that Potter and Brennan were peppered with questions by a federal district court judge who ultimately issued an injunction against N.C. State and in favor of the Christian plaintiffs. (You can read about the decision here.)
Of course, this is not the first time the feminist duo of Potter and Brennan have been sent by Cooper to do the dirty work of stripping Christians of their First Amendment rights. Just two years ago, the pair lost a jury trial in Greenville, North Carolina in a four-day trial. During that trial, they specifically read from the opinion columns of a Christian professor and effectively asked the jury to punish the author for writing them. The jury responded by siding with the professor.
The Cooper-led feminist ms-step ended up costing the state $665K in compensatory damages and attorney fees. It’s a good thing the judge didn’t tack on another one thousand. Had it been $666K some might have started wondering whether Cooper is in fact the anti-Christ.
Contrast this outcome with Roy Cooper’s immediate and public decision to refuse to defend HB2. Cooper reflexively declared HB2 to be “unconstitutional” right after the now infamous bathroom bill was passed – and probably before the ink on the bill had even dried.
Does anyone notice a pattern developing, here? If not, just try reconciling the following:
1. Roy Cooper defends the UNC system when it tries to force Christians to obtain a permit to share the Gospel – despite the obvious unconstitutionality of the permit requirement. He immediately loses in a federal injunction hearing when a judge sees the problem Roy just can’t seem to see staring him right in the face.
2. Roy Cooper defends the UNC system when it tries to deny a Christian professor a promotion. In the process, his office tries to argue that the government is allowed to engage in viewpoint discrimination in regards to any writings professors place in their promotion materials. In defending this bizarre interpretation of the First Amendment, he ultimately loses millions in back pay, attorney fees, and off the books costs (in the form of employee work hours).
3. Roy Cooper refuses to defend HB2 - immediately recognizing that it is “unconstitutional.”
How does one reconcile these three cases? It’s actually pretty simple. Roy Cooper abides by two hard and fast rules when it comes to deciding which cases and laws he should defend (read: In deciding when he will do his job and when he will refuse to do his job). The two rules can briefly be summarized as follows:
1. Always side with the UNC system because they are Roy Cooper’s oldest allies in fighting a war against evangelical Christians.
2. Always side with the LGBT community because they are Roy Cooper’s newest (and most unhinged) allies in fighting a war against evangelical Christians.
Those who think Roy Cooper is just a good ole boy from the Tar Heel State are badly misguided. Don’t let the deep southern drawl and bad haircut fool you. Roy Cooper is no Andy Griffith. He’s more like Clarence Darrow without the intellectual ability and personal integrity.
Of course, any comparisons between Cooper and Darrow are probably unfair. Clarence Darrow battled Christianity by upholding the First Amendment. Roy Cooper battles Christianity by shredding the First Amendment.
For all of this nonsense, Roy Cooper needs to be disbarred, not elected governor. In other words, his time is up and someone needs to revoke his permit.
Astonishing.
This man should be disbarred. How can he possibly think it would pass a constitutional test.
Astonishing!
Not being from NC, I thought better of Cooper, of whom I had heard only that he put Nifong’s Duke Lacrosse “rape” hoax out of its misery.
They don’t even try to hide their bigotry anymore.
The Pope deemed this year the ‘year of mercy’. Maybe it’s time to have some of that mercy bestowed on our Christian brethren.
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Given the open hostility and hatred being shown to Christians, the Pope’s call to “mercy” is more a call to surrender.
Bump!
Universities are dens of iniquity. Nothing they do surprises me anymore.
Demand the removal and firing of traitors to the Republic!
You are right, I know.
This forcing Christians into the closet and the Truth banned from the public square and “skools” has been going on for 100 years in America to destroy the Christian Worldview in children (toxic cultures breed toxic ignorant evil people, just like the Weimar Republic and the irrational, tribal Aztec and islam “religions”).
The Cultural Marxists knew to destroy Western Civ for their takeover, they had to destroy the ONLY worldview which created the Age of Reason (logic//rule of law/unity/moral natural aristocracy/hierarchy (order)): Christian Worldview which created the Minds of Tesla, Newton and the US Constitution and our “Justice” System: the most perfect, free, just system in the history of the World since it is based on Laws of Nature and nature’s God (God’s Laws of Nature-—men are men/women are designed differently-—all provable by Logic and Reason).
To destroy the only Worldview based on Logic and Reason, they had to make children irrational—to believe “snow is black” (Fichte 1810) so they would become slaves of the State (believe all the lies which make them into “happy slaves”).
We have generations of stupid, brainwashed adults-—living in Plato’s Cave and believing the most absurd, evil, vile, dehumanizing acts are now “Good”. 2000 years of Worldview switched in just a generation..
So—to divide and conquer—all the Marxists have been doing is grouping little children to focus them on hating others, (embedding vice), through Lies and Misinformation (macro-evolution/Scientism is their irrational religion and basis of flipping 2000 years of worldview (beliefs) back to the pederastic, slave, polygamy, baby-killing, sexist cultures of the past (today’s muslim worldview).
Without Virtue (Christian Justice—the Queen of Virtue), the “civil” society will collapse. Divide and Conquer goes back to before Julius Caesar. Get your children and grandchildren OUT of their matrix of brainwashing and embedding irrational, vile desires and worldviews in your children/grandchildren (this includes much of the TV/Movies and skools (group-(non)-think factories which destroy moral formation (Virtue)).
Cooper is a Democrat, the party that HATES Christianity and Christian values.
I would guess he is one of George Soros’ stooges elected under the Leftist AG initiative...
This rat scum must not be elected Governor.
You got it.
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