First They Came for the Deaf Seniors...

Creative Minority Report ^ | October 23, 2013 | Matthew Archbold

[NYer]

As gay marriage continues marching it's way through the country via our judicial oligarchical overlords, we're constantly told that there's no way the government will ever go after the Church for not performing gay marriage.

But that ignores the ideological blinders of bureaucrats. You think they won't come after the Church's tax exemption for their refusal to acknowledge and perform gay marriage? To witness the idiotic lengths these Orwellian knuckleheads will go to, check out this story from Moonbattery :

Arizona is defying a federal order to eliminate apartments for deaf seniors at a housing complex built specifically — for the deaf. …

A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe, Ariz., designed specifically for the deaf. Ninety-percent of the units are currently occupied by deaf and deaf-blind seniors.

What our federal overlords give, they can snatch away — on the most ludicrous whim.

But now, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development says Apache ASL Trails violates civil rights law — because it shows a preference for the hearing-impaired.

The thing is, they don't even have anything against these deaf people. Those folks are just roadkill on a necessary trip.

Imagine what they'll do to their real enemies. And make no mistake, they know the Catholic Church is the one true enemy of the secular progressive agenda. They'll seek to remove the Church's tax exemption, they'll make Church agencies not eligible for federal grants, they'll target the rights of Catholic schools to hire and fire, they'll make demands on Catholic colleges and hospitals. And they won't stop. They won't stop until Catholicism is no longer an enemy to their ambitions.

[NYer]

One response on CMR ... gotta love this!

I'm hearing-impaired, white (with a generous dollop of First Nations DNA), male, heterosexual, Viet-Nam veteran, public-school teacher, Catholic, gun owner (a 1905 Lee-Enfield that I haven't shot in years), a senior citizen, a voter, a citizen, a conservative, and still in debt for the house I bought long ago -- something to annoy everyone. It's my job.

Ping!

[knarf]

What? ... huh ?

[Tax-chick]

You can’t have too many deaf people in an apartment complex for deaf people. It’s discriminatory.

What’s so hard to understand here?

[BlessedBeGod]

In case you missed it:

Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf -- at complex built for hearing-impaired

[CodeToad]

More Boomers voted for Obama than not, now they can deal with the medical consequences of their choice: Death Panels.

[NYer]

More Boomers voted for Obama than not, now they can deal with the medical consequences of their choice: Death Panels.

I'm a "boomer" but did not vote for Obama. My daughter is a "millenial" but did not vote for Obama. Are you suggesting that we should also suffer the consequences?

[CodeToad]

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Maybe you should read my statement and not have such an emotional knee-jerk reaction to what was said and insult me with such an accusation.

[metmom]

Here’s the original article which I had to go through about three links to get to. It gives much more information.

Feds try to eliminate housing for the deaf — at complex built for hearing-impaired
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/21/feds-try-to-eliminate-housing-for-deaf-at-complex-built-for-hearing-impaired/?intcmp=latestnews

I am connected to the Deaf community and can tell you, the government is picking on the wrong group of people. If they think that they can push this one through because old people don’t fight back, they are in for a rude awakening because they are also pushing at the Deaf community.

Could you imagine the government trying to do this to a black community? Or a gay community? Or any other PC group?

This is reprehensible....

[Sir_Ed]

That is absurd! I’ve got a deaf friend who lives in a deaf-only community in Gresham, Oregon and the thought that they could be sued also makes me sick to my stomach...

Ed