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Religion is being weaponized against gays, claims same-sex ‘marriage’ icon, Jim Obergefell
Life Site News ^ | 06/18/2018 | Doug Mainwaring

Posted on 06/18/2018 12:17:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

June 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Jim Obergefell, the man whose name will be forever associated with the institution of genderless marriage in the United States, said he “was heartbroken and devastated,” by the Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.  

But more than that, Obergefell is frightened.  Very frightened.

It’s not the actuality of the ruling that scares him; it’s the boogeymen he has concocted in order to shoo away any second guessing about the high court’s judgement in his favor three years ago.  

“After deciding in favor of marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges,” asked Obergefell in a commentary written for The Advocate, “how could Justices Kennedy, Kagan, and Breyer rule in favor of legalized discrimination under the guise of religious freedom?”

Obergefell’s reaction to the ruling then launches into ever-increasing hyperbole.  

He says this signals the beginning of the legalization of discrimination.  More specifically, this discrimination will be Christian fundamentalists lording it over gays:   

We have a movement to make public discrimination based on one’s personal beliefs legal. These laws attempt to make one person’s beliefs more valuable, more worthy of protection, than another’s.

It gets worse.  Obergefell sees Jack Phillips Masterpiece Cakeshop as the underground headquarters for a movement to do away with the principle of separation of church and state, and the establishment of a new state religion:

They aim to make one person’s or one group’s beliefs superior to all others in the public sphere and, in effect, to establish that religion as a national religion that carries more legal weight than others.

The urgency of his hyperbolic statements builds, sentence by sentence.  He coins a new term, “the religious refusal movement,” for what he thinks he sees happening:  

It is past time for us to call this religious refusal movement and related legislative efforts exactly what they are …

He sees this as a dark, insidious conspiracy, saying it is:

... an attempt to legalize persecution of others in the public sphere.

At the heart of the conspiracy is the court’s turning religion into a cudgel to persecute and beat back the innocent gays:

Proponents of these efforts are weaponizing religion to protect their beliefs at the expense of others in daily life and in our laws.

He then draws a straight line from Jack Phillips declining to decorate a wedding cake for one gay couple’s ‘marriage,’ back to racism; to white supremacy; and finally to the wholesale slaughter of millions:

It wasn’t long ago that a holy book was used to justify laws banning interracial marriages. White supremacists use their holy book to justify their racist attitudes toward people of color. Less than a century ago, religion was used to justify the wholesale slaughter of millions of people.

Perhaps Jim Obergefell has his Supreme Court rulings mixed up.  The 7-2 Court decision which is actually responsible for the “wholesale slaughter of millions” was Roe v Wade, decided in 1973.  Over 60 million American children––a high percentage of whom were black, suggesting white supremacy––have been murdered since then.  

Ironically, Jim’s parting shot––his wistful concluding statement––is something with which I wholeheartedly agree:

In my remarks to the press following the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, I said I look forward to the day that “same-sex marriage” and “gay marriage” no longer exist and it’s simply marriage.

I, too, “look forward to the day that ‘same-sex marriage’ and ‘gay marriage’ no longer exist,” and all that is left is “simply marriage,” but for a wholly different reason.  

‘Same-sex marriage’ and ‘gay marriage’ represent an impossible juxtaposition of terms, because marriage––the real thing––is complementary and conjugal, no matter how much some people imagine it could be otherwise.

Jim Obergefell’s boogeymen will neither obscure the fallacies of the high court’s majority opinion in his 2015 case, nor will it erase the truth about the immutable nature of the one true definition of marriage.

Not discrimination.  Not persecution. Just sound reasoning.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianity; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; obergefell; sodomite; ssm
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To: SeekAndFind

In reality, homosexuality (like leftism) is a religion. It’s a comprehensive worldview and not what they do, but who they are, at least according to their own words. The courts have therefore been siding with one religion over another. Anything but Christianity.


21 posted on 06/18/2018 12:39:13 PM PDT by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

As usual, as a liberal he is using one of their most common weapons of debate: projection


22 posted on 06/18/2018 12:45:05 PM PDT by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm using my wife's account.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“FORGIVENESS INCOMING!”

Weaponized, eh?


23 posted on 06/18/2018 12:51:29 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SeekAndFind

I think Trump has the right approach.

Trump is going after the child sex offenders and getting them off the street.

To the extent that Trump is successful, it stops the most direct method to spread the perversion.

Maybe if he gets enough of these guys, it will result in a cleaned up hollywood and a cleaned up school agenda. Then the indirect methods take a hit too.


24 posted on 06/18/2018 12:52:21 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind
... an attempt to legalize persecution of others in the public sphere.

Who is persecuting who, Obergefell????

25 posted on 06/18/2018 12:59:30 PM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: SeekAndFind

WHat religion was ever for same sex marriage or am I missing something?


26 posted on 06/18/2018 1:09:02 PM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: SeekAndFind

Is there any way we can make him MORE frightened?


27 posted on 06/18/2018 1:09:15 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Religion is weaponized against us also. I chose not to take additional hits and walked away from my church last August 29.


28 posted on 06/18/2018 1:11:09 PM PDT by jimfree (My17 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Only against what is evil.


29 posted on 06/18/2018 1:11:18 PM PDT by mulligan (EeThe)
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To: SeekAndFind

Up is down, black is white, it’s the queers that have weaponized fagotry against Christianity and heterosexuality.


30 posted on 06/18/2018 1:12:00 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Exactly.
In Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” it says that you are supposed to accuse your opponents of what you are doing. This is simply another example.


31 posted on 06/18/2018 1:33:07 PM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Homosexuals are mentally ill. They have weaponized that.


32 posted on 06/18/2018 1:39:31 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: SeekAndFind

They are projecting again.


33 posted on 06/18/2018 1:49:59 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Boomer
On average I find homosexuals to be more angry and rude. Not all but most.

And the ones who aren't won't call out the ones who are.

34 posted on 06/18/2018 2:05:58 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“legalized discrimination”

Laws are all about discrimination.

The only debate of the last 200 years was what discrimination should be legal.

If no one could discriminate about anything, why have laws? You’d be outlawing law.

A free society has every right to discriminate on the basis of behavior. It’s the whole point of being free to create the society you want as a nation.


35 posted on 06/18/2018 2:09:54 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

Gay drama queen. They are a dime a dozen, unfortunately.


36 posted on 06/18/2018 2:12:54 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: SeekAndFind

“They gassed us in Auschwitz and now the Trump administration will do worse!”


37 posted on 06/18/2018 2:14:49 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Homosexual “rights” has been weaponized to rip down Christianity, demonize and punish Christians, and destroy basic public morals and decency.”

That about covers it.


38 posted on 06/18/2018 2:21:01 PM PDT by tuffydoodle (A moral wrong cannot be a Civil Right.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I call serious BS, Jim Obergefell....serious BS.


39 posted on 06/18/2018 2:45:12 PM PDT by cranked
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To: SeekAndFind

Well mr obergefelchen, stop being a sex offender and lead a normal life that doesn’t include being a coprophilic practice with another man.


40 posted on 06/18/2018 3:45:15 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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