Posted on 04/03/2015 1:34:59 PM PDT by rbbeachkid
I believe that we are in a war, a war that we have no idea how to fight. We don’t understand the rules of engagement. Our opponents have a take no prisoners attitude and we just want to be nice to everyone. On top of that, most of us are too busy taking care of ourselves and our families to want to engage in warfare with people that we have no animus towards. Additionally, we are much too comfortable to risk what we have to run off tilting at windmills.
So the slide into totalitarianism continues. It is, however, reaching a level that is catching our attention. When a small town pizzeria is shut down when they refused service to no one, we sit up and become a little more concerned.
A little reminiscent of the statement by Martin Niemoller:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
A have a solution for the small businesses. This isn’t the winning blow to their movement by any stretch of the imagination, but it can be a small winning battle -
All small businesses should agree to provide services for the little homosexual parties (I refuse to call it a wedding since that is not what that word means and I am tired of ceding our vocabulary to them).
The contract should be written that XX company will provide services for the homosexual party for the usual price of $YY. The check should be made out to National Organization for Marriage or Alliance Defending Freedom or some such traditional marriage organization. It is better if the customer has to write the check himself, but if not specify in the contract that all proceeds from this transaction will be donated in honor of the happy couple. Staple a form explaining the organization to the receipt (It should be easy to print something from their websites.)
If the happy couple were to go through with the agreement, the business owner would be out the money for the gig. I don’t see that ever happening, however, there is a cost to going to war.
That being said, and as evidenced by Chick Fil A and the GoFundMe for Memories Pizza, others are willing to help defray those costs.
As I mentioned, we are being attacked. And we don’t think like our opponents. It would never occur to us to “make” someone do something that goes against his or her deeply held beliefs. Changing our tactics and taking each of these skirmishes more seriously is going to be important.
In war there are material costs and casualties. We need to understand that, accept it and engage. We are at war.
I like it!
We need to call and call out the priests, pastors, ministers, et al. They need to SPEAK UP
So does the ACLU, you know, those supposed First Amendment lovin’ lawyers? And other “Constitutionals” too
Stop letting them frame the issue, dammnit. It’s a CONSTITUTIONAL issue, First Amendment Freedom of Religion and Association. Speak out against them trying to “force THEIR view of ‘morality’ on the rest.
Organize boycotts of asskissing pandering businesses. Start with Angie and her biased “list” We have already canceled and we sure as hell told them why. Along with a copy of the First Amendment and a strong suggestion to take a course on the Constitution.
And be sure to tell your friends. The left wins, not because they are on the correct side, but because they raise a stink and we don’t fight back.
How, then, do you prevent a steady stream of such customers deliberately booking all of the business’ time and depriving it of necessary income?
It’s a decent idea.
Do it only half the time?
Christians will only fight back once they have lost everything they hold dear. By that time it will already too late. At that point, it will be a fight of attrition with the Christians and Jews on one side, verses the muslims, socialists/communists, and atheists on the other side.
rules of engagement?
There are no rules. If you knew the rules, the enemy will change the rules they play by
She’s right. We need to up our game. This trend will not ho away before it increases exponentially. New rules for new enemies.
Chai Feldblum, an Obama appointee, stated the “rules” better than anyone - “Gays win, Christians lose”
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The bastards will say you made them uncomfortable and since they are looking to roast your a$$ they will cause trouble.
The goal is to eliminate Christianity.
Great idea. Add to it the establishment of a “traditional marriage” financial organization (TMO)that serves as a funds clearinghouse on the order of a Mastercard etc. so tha the small business receives their money back (less a TMO service charge (or contribution) and I think we are in business. Put in all store windows, ads and lets see how the left goes nuts.
If the happy couple were to go through with the agreement, the business owner would be out the money for the gig. I don’t see that ever happening, however, there is a cost to going to war.
Your initial analysis is correct, and then you forget what you just said when you post the following up above.
This is about forcing people to participate. This is an organized effort by activists to disrupt existing societal norms. They will pay the check. They gain more by making you do it despite your efforts to turn it into a poison pill.
This approach undermines the claim of objections of conscience. If you are willing to do it rather than fight, then it must not be all that serious of a conscientious objection.
It is but another attempt to side step their attack, and they will simply reform and come at us again from a different angle. They need to be told "no." They need to be defied, and told that we will burn it down first.
Timidity and attempted cleverness are no way to fight a war. War is a test of wills, and the first thing you have to have in order to engage in a war *IS* a will. They have that. *We* must respond in kind.
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If they had their way, the camps would start being filled up by now
You use a box of Duncan Hines and Dollar Store decorations- these tyrants have no intention of eating the cake any how.
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