University students in another time and another place enthusiastically supported speech/thought codes and book burning.
This will not end well.
Posted on 04/28/2015 5:24:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Forget for a moment the ever-failing economy, the implosion of our foreign policy coherence, and our virtually unilateral withdrawal in the war on terror under Barack Obama's presidency. If liberty lovers don't start fighting back soon, we'll forfeit our freedom of thought and religious expression under the assault of fascist leftist activists in our culture.
Let's just look at two of the many recent events that should have us very concerned. As you may have guessed, they revolve around the controversial matter of same-sex marriage. At the outset, let me say that this issue is no longer about same-sex marriage or gay rights; it is about our basic liberties.
First, we read via The New York Times that "Ian Reisner, one of the two gay hoteliers facing boycott calls for hosting an event for Senator Ted Cruz, who is adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage, apologized to the gay community for showing 'poor judgment.'"
What was Reisner's sin for which he is now openly flaying himself in faux repentance? He and his business partner allowed Sen. Cruz to participate in a "fireside chat" for about a dozen people, which was not even a fundraiser. But as soon as word got out, gay activists apparently mobilized in force through social media outlets and phone calls calling for boycotts of Reisner's properties.
An ostensibly shocked Reisner, in an effort to stanch the bleeding represented by more than 8,200 likes on a Facebook page calling for the boycott, apologized on Facebook. "I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake," wrote Reisner.
Yes, he made the unforgivable "mistake" of hosting an event for a presidential candidate who has different views on social issues than the fascist boycott organizers have -- and he has himself, for that matter, seeing as he's a prominent figure in the gay rights community, according to the Times.
Supporters of same-sex marriage, as many used to predict would happen, are not content with their recent victories on the issue. They obviously want to punish anyone who dissents for any reason -- including religious and conscience reasons -- and also bludgeon those (such as Reisner) who even inadvertently assist those who dissent (such as Cruz).
Next, we should consider the horrendous ordeal of Aaron and Melissa Klein, who used to own Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a bakery they built from scratch in Sandy, Oregon, in 2013. When they respectfully declined, on religious grounds, the request of two women to bake a cake for their wedding, the happy couple filed a civil complaint against them for failing to provide them equal service in a place of public accommodation. You know, live and let live -- the attitude the activists and their fellow liberal foxhole buddies told us they would have if they prevailed in their quest to legalize same-sex marriage.
A group of unspecified people -- real or robotic constructs of social media legerdemain -- went into battle. "They got together and harassed all of our vendors," Melissa said. The vendors, according to The Daily Signal, folded and took Sweet Cakes off their referral lists, resulting in a 65 to 70 percent reduction in the Kleins' annual income, forcing them to close the bakery. (The Kleins have five children, and Melissa is reduced to baking a few cakes a month at home. Aaron now has a job as a garbage collector.)
But that heartless result wasn't enough for the victors. They pursued their legal action against the Kleins with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries, and last Friday, an administrative law judge with that agency recommended the Kleins be fined $135,000 for the damages caused to the happy -- and now happily married -- couple.
When I first heard about this, my jaw literally dropped, and that takes quite a bit in this upside-down, crazy world we've grown to understand we now inhabit.
Aaron Klein said: "This country should be able to tolerate diverse opinions. I never once have said that my fight is (to) stop what they call equality."
Sorry, Aaron, and I do mean I am profoundly sorry for the injustice that has been imposed on you, but these activists are not willing to tolerate diverse opinions. They don't care that you are not proactively trying to oppose their march for whatever it is they're marching for. It appears that the true quest of leftist gay activists -- and not just gay activists but those of many other leftist causes in this country (e.g., "climate change") -- is to wholly shut down and censor opposing opinions, whether thought or expressed, whether publicly or privately.
I repeat: The real fight on these types of issues in this nation is no longer about the underlying "rights" involved. It concerns the appalling mission of activists to marshal the coercive power of government and of commercial blackmail to compel other people to agree (and publicly say they agree) with their opinions on issues they deem important.
Isn't it ironic that the people who are pushing for these rights always wave banners of tolerance, love, compassion and liberty? More than ironic, it's outrageous. And fewer and fewer people of principle are standing up to this tyrannical bullying because, understandably, they don't want to put themselves in the crosshairs of this gestapo. But history tells us the logical conclusion of this story. Some socially liberal Republicans naively believe that this is only about the social issues themselves, but it's about liberty.
God help us.
Bump
Wouldn’t it be easier for us straight white christian folk to just come out and declare that we are not going to take this anymore?
We need to start doing what the Gaystapo does. We will not frequent any business that employs gays, is run by gays or is owned by gays. We will identify their businesses, boycott (no wait, we have jobs) them and tell advertisers who support these businesses that we won’t buy any of their products until they get these queer little Hitlers removed from employment.
I don’t have any problems with gays. I have problems with the radical gays who like the Al Sharptons of the world are demonizing people to promote an agenda.
It is more than facism...it is a new dogma. We have many of these dogma’s (like religions):
Homosexual dogma
Secular dogma
Atheistic dogma
Evolutionary dogma
Dare to go against the “dogma” and you get stomped. Freedom of speech and religion do not really exist anymore.
The gay totalitarian position makes no sense to me, almost like they are lashing out with uncontrolled anger.
“Hi, I’m gay and my feelings are hurt. I feel like anyone who doesn’t listen to and then celebrate every explicit detail of my sex life is hateful and deserves to be punished.”
“That’s why I want to compel those who consider my sex life sinful to artistically photograph my ‘wedding’, provide the pizza (such a traditional wedding meal!) to cater my ‘wedding’, bake a creative and expressive cake customized to celebrate my ‘wedding’, and in innumerable ways profit from my ‘wedding’ through their compulsory individual artistic expression.”
“Rather than allowing them to tell me that they disapprove, which would allow me to support businesses that support my choices, I demand that these Christians be compelled to silently obey me and to silently serve me on demand. That way people who find me repulsive will profit from my ‘wedding’, and that will build tolerance for my choices. Their choices will be given no weight because I disagree.”
“And it’s my right to force those people to make a profit from me, since there is such a shortage of gay florists, photographers, and bakers. Or something.”
“I am shaken to my bones by the e-mails, texts, postings and phone calls “
Here’s a thought: tell them to eff off or just ignore them.
The cake bakers is another story: the STATE [stazi] fined them and it would take a court to overturn it...not an administrative queer magistrate but an actual court.
They did NOT violate the public accommodations law, tho the stazi maintains they did. Had the couple requested a cake off the shelf offered for sale to anyone, that would be one thing. BUT, they did not: they wanted to engage the artist to create their special cake. An artist has to be free to create. You cannot force it, tho some try.
There has got to be a big heaping spoonful of “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn...”.
They will keep pushing until you and I send the scurrying back into their holes. That might mean getting in their faces directly and telling them to stfu.
Wouldn’t it be easier for us straight white christian folk to just come out and declare that we are not going to take this anymore?
Probably take a real, personal wake up call for that to happen.
They don’t realize that by then it very well may be too late to avoid the boxcars.
Someone wise once told me there are really only two worldviews.
The Christ centered / Christian worldview,
and everything else that offers itself as an alternative,
ie, anti-Christ.
Hi, I’m gay and my feelings are hurt
Why are all these things are happening in a “LIBERAL, SOCIALIST and COMMUNIST cities, all over this country? Why are there so much animosity towards the police? 1st, let’s see what the duties of the police are. Their duties are to “ENFORCE” the laws that these politicians enact. No matter how stupid or terrible these laws are. But the people blame the police for enforcing these stupid laws. In most liberal, socialist and communist cities, in order to make more money for the city, these politicians pass “CHICKEN SHIT” laws, the the police are to enforce. And who will the people blame? The police, of course. I’m sure that the readers of this article can name many “CHICKEN SHIT” laws that these politicians have passed in your cities.
Angry backlash is coming, down the road, mark my words and it will hit the radical left HARD.
AMEN.
Time to bring the good news of Jesus back to the world.
I predict that a Christian verson of “Go Fund Me” will get set up.
Thank you for the correction. Even though any disagreement is a microaggression, I will withdraw into a safe space until I am able to process your trigger words and incorporate them into my feelings.
University students in another time and another place enthusiastically supported speech/thought codes and book burning.
This will not end well.
LOL, I thought it said “Puffed up leftist Tranny...”
Given what is filling FR these days, I suppose I could be excused for that!
I used to have a boss many years ago (56 years) that whenever someone said I thought she replied with " Let the horses think, they got larger heads." I thought it was hilarious
Heheheh, I am so going to use that!
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