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A small win against the thought police:
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/J...ach-on-Campus/
A student at Thomas Nelson Community College recently claimed victory after winning a freedom of speech fight against his college. Christian Parks sued the college system after campus police ordered him to stop preaching in a school courtyard. The Alliance Defending Freedom, an Arizona-based Christian legal ministry who represented Parks, argued his free speech rights were violated.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostYeah...every precedent was unprecedented at one time or another, right?"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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They even turn on their own. This hypersensitivity is ludicrous.
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/il...obic-slur.html
CHICAGO - LGBTQ students at the University of Chicago are circulating a petition objecting to slurs gay rights activist Dan Savage used during a exchange at the school's Institute of Politics event last week. They said they were made to "feel uncomfortable" by a "transphobic slur" used during Savage's presentation.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostIs it that play fast and loose with the word or is it that you don't like who they use it against?"The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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More Liberal Fascism?
This is one of the most impressive articles I have ever read, written by a gay college professor:
Life on GLAAD's Blacklist
By Robert Oscar Lopez
Readers will have to forgive me for sounding angry, but the recent news involving GLAAD has enraged me. Mark Steyn's most recent piece in National Review sums up some of the worst aspects of the epic saga known as GLAAD v. Duck Dynasty.
Steyn resonates with me on one key point: yes, GLAAD is ridiculous and foolish. We knew this. But some conservatives who should know better are truly pathetic. A National Review editor scolds Steyn for being "puerile," while people on Fox News say that Phil Robertson should have been suspended. Pusillanimous obeisance to false ideology isn't exclusive to left or right.
A bunch of people on the left (see here and here) called GLAAD out, and I'm glad they did. Yet a bunch of people on the right are still terrified of GLAAD, or else actually believe that it's defamation to say negative things or think negative thoughts about homosexuality.
In case you don't know the full extent of GLAAD's fascism, let me tell you what GLAAD did to me.
Read the rest of the article here.
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Originally posted by John Reece View PostThis is one of the most impressive articles I have ever read, written by a gay college professor:
Life on GLAAD's Blacklist
By Robert Oscar Lopez
Readers will have to forgive me for sounding angry, but the recent news involving GLAAD has enraged me. Mark Steyn's most recent piece in National Review sums up some of the worst aspects of the epic saga known as GLAAD v. Duck Dynasty.
Steyn resonates with me on one key point: yes, GLAAD is ridiculous and foolish. We knew this. But some conservatives who should know better are truly pathetic. A National Review editor scolds Steyn for being "puerile," while people on Fox News say that Phil Robertson should have been suspended. Pusillanimous obeisance to false ideology isn't exclusive to left or right.
A bunch of people on the left (see here and here) called GLAAD out, and I'm glad they did. Yet a bunch of people on the right are still terrified of GLAAD, or else actually believe that it's defamation to say negative things or think negative thoughts about homosexuality.
In case you don't know the full extent of GLAAD's fascism, let me tell you what GLAAD did to me.
Read the rest of the article here.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostChilling, reading his whole article it is no hyperbole to suggest that Joe McCarthy would have been proud of GLAAD's tactics. They are truly evil.
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Originally posted by Epoetker View PostDon't smear the good name of Joe McCarthy by association with these deviants, since his accusations were basically correct.
His tactics were questionable, there certainly were commies running around everywhere.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostUsing the same anti discrimination laws, and people behind them, that would punish a simple baker for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Take the case in my OP, there were plenty of other bakeries in the same area who would have made the cake - why not just go to one of them? No, these spiteful people want anyone who disagrees with them to pay, to be hurt. It is that mindset that will not live with churches that refuse service to them.
Originally posted by Zymologist View PostAs to your first question, I don't really have a good answer other than to reiterate what seer said.
Taking the example of the wedding cake: you argued (if I remember correctly) that the baker should be forced to bake the cake for the gay couple. In what way would that argument not apply to a church officiating a wedding?
As to your second question, I'm surprised that people seem to think such a thing is so unthinkable. It doesn't seem like much of a stretch at all to me.
Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostLegal precedence does not seem to be very important in today's United States.
Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostWho needs legal precedent when you can simply create one through activist courts? You don't think this is happening elsewhere?
And in the good ol' US of A, the inroads are being laid:
Originally posted by Teallaura View PostPrecedent ISN'T law - it's an established way to interpret law. Many test cases are brought in hopes of establishing a precedent even if they don't result in a particular outcome (although they usually are one in the same they aren't always). Having no precedent is not a valid argument against a movement to establish one.
Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostIt's little more than name calling that is about bring silence upon your opposition and attempting to ensure that nobody would listen to a word they say because they are 'bigots' and therefore can't be trusted. The goal of many of them is to use the force of law to make others agree with them or else. Does that sound very much like what the US you want to exist? One that uses the force of law to make others agree with them?
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostWith the UK and Denmark, their government has ties to specific churches (the Church of England and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark, respectively). We do not have such a relationship.
In Roper v. Simmons, Justice Kennedy cited the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and the Criminal Justice Act from the United Kingdom. In Lawrence v. Texas, he cited three decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
So, please don't be so naive as to think that it isn't already being applied here. All it takes is one case to make it to the SCOTUS, and they can apply their prior precedent of using foreign laws and decisions.
In the New Jersey case, the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association said that their venue was open to public use on an equal basis in order to get property tax exemption. So they lied to the government.That's what
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostThe legal precedence there, justified or not, is the allowance for business regulation and the equal protection clause. I don't see how either of those apply to churches.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View Post...
It seems strange that people would be worried about laws being passed and standing up to judicial scrutiny that are in complete opposition to legal precedence and current understanding of the law.
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Are you kidding? Legislatures overturn precedence all the danged time - so long as the matter doesn't require Constitutional amendment (or even if it does if you're talking about Alabama ) a legislature (state or Congress) can simply pass a new law that addresses the matter of precedent - and they do. Precedent does NOT dictate to legislatures - heck, even Constitutional matters can be overturned (via amendment) if the legislature in question has the will to do so (or, in the Federal case, the will to start the process)."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Psychic Missile View PostHow do you know this is the case instead of people calling out actual bigots? I want a US where the law is used to improve the human condition."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Gay/Liberal Fascism
I just read an interview with Dr. Ben Carson, the world renowned pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, who said that it was a group of gay activists that intimidated the university administration into not following through on a promise to arrange a meeting between Carson and a student group to seek a resolution of a threat to disrupt the graduation ceremony at which Carson had already been invited to speak.
Carson therefore withdrew, so the students at his own university were deprived of hearing the inspiring message he no doubt would have delivered.
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