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The Left Wins Another Battle …
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The war on Bible-believers
NEWS: A privately owned corporation fires Curt Schilling for opposing transgender bathrooms
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/donald-trump-walks-back-comments-on-transgender-bathrooms-its-a-states-issu
NEWS: The Illinois government fines Christians $80,000 for refusing to host same sex wedding
http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/april/illinois-couple-fined-80-000-for-refusing-to-host-same-sex-wedding-ceremony
Good commentary: ESPN Has a Right to Fire Curt Schilling. What Rights Do People of Faith Have?
NEWS: Sexual predator jailed after claiming to be transgender in order to assault women
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sexual-predator-jailed-after-claiming-to-be-transgender-in-order-to-assault
NEWS: Man strips in front of girls in locker room, says law allows it
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/man-strips-in-front-of-girls-in-swimming-pool-locker-says-transgender-law-a
Filed under Christianity, Donald Trump, News Media, Religious Liberty
ACLU loses
The American Civil Liberties Union supposedly devotes itself to protecting the civil rights of all Americans. What a load of Progressive Donkey Doo!
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Court Dismisses ACLU Lawsuit Attempting to Force Catholic Hospital to Do Abortions
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Enjoy This Easter; The Apocalypse Clock Is Counting Down Faster Than the US Debt Counter After Yesterday
Gruntington Post, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Good Friday, 2016 – We keep making history here in the Good Ol’ USA, whether we want to or not. Last Christmas, the Detroit Chapter of the Satanic Temple made history by conducting the first Satanic ceremony on the State Capitol steps in Lansing, Michigan under the black flag of the Satanic USA, apparently. And this Good Friday, they made some more history by conducting a “Sanctions of the Cross” demonstration in front of a Planned Parenthood to protest legislative restrictions on baby sacrifice.
As Samantha Allen of The Daily Beast put it: “It was a showdown that can only be described as biblical: The Satanic Temple of Detroit versus the Pro-Life Action League outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic on Good Friday.”
You can see other photos at the Daily Beast, depicting their leader, Jex Blackheart or Jinx Blackmore or whatever her/his name is, staring at the camera wearing a crown of thorns and carrying a cross. I’d prefer not to reproduce them here, thank you. Talk about “cultural appropriation,” huh? You’d think all the social justice snowflakes in Ann Arbor would be all over this, wouldn’t you?
Read more excellent snark about these historic events at The Other McCain.
Filed under Abortion, Atheism, Patriotism, Religion, Religious Liberty
HHS issues another anti-religion mandate
Obamacare was passed by Congress, sure. But it gave the Department of Health and Human Services the power to invent new regulations for the insurance industry that have the power of law. That’s not how our government is supposed to work. At all.
First, HHS pushed the birth control mandate down everyone’s throats. Religious organizations opposed to birth control and/or abortifacient drugs have fought this in the courts and won. Some, like the Little Sisters of the Poor, are still fighting.
Recently, the anti-God thugs at Obama’s HHS upped the ante. Now they want all health insurance policies to cover gender transition and possibly (probably) abortion under the heading of banning sexual discrimination.
Religious leaders wrote a letter objecting to the new rule, which they say “is likely to have a detrimental effect on the privacy interests of patients, to interfere in some instances with the effective delivery of health care services, and to infringe upon the religious and moral convictions of health care providers, insurers, and other stakeholders.”
Signers include the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Association of Evangelicals, Christian Medical Association, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, Christian Legal Society, World Vision (US), Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Liberty Institute, Family Research Council, and the National Catholic Bioethics Center.
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Filed under HHS, Obamacare, Religious Liberty
Pray for the courage to stand for Jesus
From Todd Starnes:*
President Obama says he cherishes religious liberty.
I can’t believe he said that with a straight face.
He went on to say that he stands alongside the Catholic Church in defense of religious liberty.
With all due respect, Mr. President that’s a great big steaming pile of fertilizer.
Defending religious liberty?
- Tell that to Kim Davis – the Kentucky clerk thrown in jail after she refused to violate her religious beliefs.
- Tell that to private business owners like Aaron and Melissa Klein and Barronnelle Stutzman.
- Tell that to public servants like former Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran.
- Tell that to Wes Modder and Phillip Monk and the countless military personnel threatened because of the God they serve.
This president’s assault on religious liberty has been nothing short of breathtaking.
If our Founding Fathers were alive today – I suspect they would’ve already started another revolution.
*Formatting by CtH.
Tell that to Bremerton High School football coach, Joe Kennedy, who has been informed in a three-page letter from the Superintendent of Schools that he faces disciplinary action, up to and including firing, if he talks about his faith to his players or does anything whatsoever that might be construed as praying in public.
He can’t wear a cross, take a knee, bow his head, or stand on the 50-yard line after a game and look at the stars.
The district defended its ban saying they were only trying to protect students who do not share coach’s faith and might feel uncomfortable or left out.
Right. Cuz nothing makes Christians feel more comfy, cozy and included than being told their smallest expression of faith is X-rated.
Coach says, “I’m going to keep on praying.”
The rest of us need to pray we have his courage when the persecution gets to our doors.
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Filed under Barack Obama, Christianity, Religious Liberty
We’re nicer than they are
Last year, the owners of a small-town pizzeria in Indiana were asked, hypothetically, if they would cater a same-sex wedding. They said they would not, because it was against their religion.
The Homosexual Tolerance Brigade threatened to burn down their shop.
The pizzeria owners did not answer threats with threats, but continued to calmly explain that they would happily serve whoever walked into their shop. They just didn’t want to be a formal part of a same-sex wedding.
Recently, a man bought two pizzas at this pizzeria and served them at a same-sex wedding reception. He also made a YouTube video about how the pizzeria had been forced to cater the wedding without knowing it.
Ha ha … way to treat serious First Amendment issues like we’re all still in grade school.
Again, the owners did not get their noses out of joint, explaining that they served everybody who came into their shop equally and that what people did with pizzas after they left the shop was none of their business.
Isn’t it interesting how the same people who decry bullying of homosexual kids in our schools behave exactly like playground bullies toward Christians?
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Religious freedom is essential
John Michael Talbot’s Facebook post about Pope Francis’ speech at Independence Hall:
The Pope’s words on Religious Liberty from Philly were just brilliant! He spoke from Independence Hall and the lecturn used by Abraham Lincoln for The Gettysburg Address. Powerful symbols!
He said that religion is not a sub culture of a people, but is inherent in the culture itself! Religious freedom is especially essential in a nation founded on religious freedom for the sake of empowering rather than limiting good religious expressions. How powerful from Independence Hall!
He also challenges those afraid of immigration, not as specific political policies, but as a general moral attitude of humanity. We see people, not just issues and problems. He encourages keeping our respective ethnic traditions alive, but while assimilating properly into the culture we embrace and join.
He spoke wise words on proper globalization that empowers, rather than restricts individual and national rights and diversity. He encouraged us not to be afraid of our ethnic or individual diversity, but learn to celebrate it as a united people of freedom.
Of course, he hopes to confirm and strengthen the traditional family in his visit to Philly. Without mentioning hot button issues that have so divided us, he speaks to the more essential core values that can solve most of them with love and truth in Christ.
This Pope cannot be politically pigeon holed! He confounds the molds of Progressive or Conservative, Democrat and Republican, or Libertarian and Socialist for that matter! But he unites us all in a most simple common love of others as we love ourselves, which is the golden rule of many religions, not the least of which is Catholic Christianity. He makes me proud to be Catholic! I pray that all of us, believer and unbeliever, Christian and non Christian, Catholic and non Catholic to embrace his spirit and words, both of which he gets from Jesus.
He ended with an off script impromptu recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. This was a fitting conclusion to his words on Religious Freedom that was personal and powerful!
Filed under Pope Francis, Religious Liberty
The Left’s Gold Standard
- The Left supports the targeted and aggressive assault on Christian religious rights.
- The Left also supports the targeted and aggressive demands by Muslims for special treatment.
If you doubt these two statements are true, google “Charee Stanley” and “Kim Davis” and compare what you find for both quantity and tone.
The Left’s apparent hypocrisy about religious rights masks a single, underlying standard.
His name is Satan.
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Filed under Christianity, Islam, Kim Davis, Religious Liberty
Gay activism: It’s not about love or equality
It’s about destroying religious freedoms for Christians.
The Left doesn’t want to accommodate Christians. They want us and our values and beliefs forced out.
Gay activists have targeted Kim Davis. The media calls her a bigot. But the whole story shows she has tried to avoid this situation from the start.
Kim Davis’ attorney, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver, has asked the courts and Gov. Steve Beshear to change licensing procedures to accommodate Davis’ convictions and those of others with similar beliefs.
Staver suggested several options, including removing the clerk’s name from all marriage licenses, making the state capitol the processing center for licenses and switching to an online application process.
Davis also tried to take pre-emptive measures to avoid the predicament immediately after taking office as clerk in January, writing state legislators in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same-sex marriage in June.
“I urged and beseeched them to get legislation on the floor while we still had time to protect clerks who had religions objections to same-sex marriage,” she said. “I got only one response, and nothing happened.”
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