Category Archives: Religious Liberty
Yay! The 9-11 cross STAYS!
Filed under Religious Liberty
Bishops say No Way to Obama’s latest assault on Freedom of Religion
President Obama just signed an executive order banning anyone who contracts with the federal government from discriminating based on “sexual orientation” or “gender identity.” The order makes no exception for religious employers. The U.S. Bishops’ response didn’t mince words:
“Today’s executive order is unprecedented and extreme and should be opposed.”
The bishops’ statement was issued by Baltimore’s Archbishop Lori (Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty) and Buffalo’s Bishop Malone (Chairman of the Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth). It goes on to expose the blatant contradiction inherent in Obama’s decree – that in the guise of banning discrimination, it actually is discrimination:
“In the name of forbidding discrimination, this order implements discrimination. With the stroke of a pen, it lends the economic power of the federal government to a deeply flawed understanding of human sexuality, to which faithful Catholics and many other people of faith will not assent. As a result, the order will exclude federal contractors precisely on the basis of their religious beliefs.”
Source: http://www.catholicvote.org/bishops-slam-unprecedented-and-extreme-attack-on-religious-freedom/
Filed under Barack Obama, Catholic Church, Religious Liberty
“Separation of church and state” is not in the Constitution
Stephen King’s ignorant tweet is an example of the level of discourse we’re getting on the Hobby Lobby thing.
Those who use the term “separation of church and state” to justify governmental infringement on the religious rights of Americans are very far removed from the intention of the Founders when they adopted the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on December 15, 1791.
The term “separation of church and state” does not appear in the Constitution. It is an offshoot of the phrase, “wall of separation between church and state”, as written in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, eleven years after the First Amendment was adopted.
The Danbury Baptist Association was afraid of becoming subservient to other Christian denominations. Jefferson’s response was meant to calm their fears by referencing the First Amendment:
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”
The whole POINT of the wall was to keep government out of religion, not to keep religion out of government.
Sources:
- http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Filed under Constitution, Religious Liberty
“America didn’t create religious liberty; religious liberty created America.”
Anybody who thinks Republicans are (fill in bad words) should listen to this interview.
June 26, 2014: Bobby Jindal on EWTN’s “The World Over” with Raymond Arroyo
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Filed under Bobby Jindal, Religious Liberty
TWO more SCOTUS wins for freedom
It’s been a good couple of weeks for the Constitution. Coming right on the heels of two unanimous Supreme Court smack downs of Obama’s federal over-reach, SCOTUS ruled that non-union home healthcare workers cannot be forced to pay union dues and that closely held corporations cannot be forced to violate their religious beliefs.
Had Hobby Lobby lost their case against the HHS mandate, the Green family might well have shut the corporation down rather than violate their beliefs. That would have been 572 stores closed nationwide, and thousands of jobs lost.
Other business owners were waiting for the decision as well. E.g., Autocam which employs 1,500 worldwide and 660 employees in the U.S. Their case was also headed to SCOTUS, but it is so similar that the Hobby Lobby decision basically settles it in their favor.
The Left-Wingers demonstrated their well-known passion for civility and tolerance by misrepresenting the decision as “preventing women from having access to birth control” and threatening (with lots of profanity) to burn down Hobby Lobby stores.
The pathologically lying ignoramus otherwise known as Obamacrat Senator, Barbara “don’t call me ma’am” Boxer, sneered at the SCOTUS decision, making the “case” that Hobby Lobby never filed “moral objection to men getting viagra” and that “vaccines may be next.”
Best tweet responses:
- Boxer is so dumb, her strawmen need Viagra to stand up.
- Protip: If you have to bring Viagra into a discussion about birth control, you don’t really have any idea of what you’re talking about.
- Too bad Boxer and the Party of Science don’t have time to do actual research before they open their mouths.
- 1) #HobbyLobby already covers birth control. 2) Viagra doesn’t abort babies. #derp
- Viagra brings things to life; abortifacients, quite the opposite.
- Why is no Leftie worried about a woman’s right to the free practice of her religion?
For the record, Hobby Lobby pays for insurance coverage for more than a dozen forms of contraception. Their objection was to paying for chemical abortion drugs (RU-486, Plan B, the Morning After Pill) which Lefties mis-classify as contraception.
A concise list of Leftie Lies and the actual True Facts about Sebelius Burwell v. Hobby Lobby
http://thefederalist.com/2014/03/25/five-false-perceptions-about-the-hobby-lobby-case/
“I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but ‘not greed’ to want to take somebody else’s money.” ― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
Sources:
- http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/06/30/breaking-scotus-delivers-narrow-win-for-hobby-lobby/
- http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2014/06/autocam_owners_deeply_grateful.html
- http://www.lifenews.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-rules-obama-admin-cant-make-hobby-lobby-obey-pro-abortion-hhs-mandate/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/06/30/fuk-you-left-wingers-want-to-burn-down-hobby-lobby-after-scotus-win/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/03/25/dana-loesch-torches-barbara-boxer-lib-lies-about-hobby-lobby-with-two-simple-key-points/
- http://twitchy.com/2014/03/25/pathological-ignorance-sen-boxers-hobby-lobby-strawmen-need-viagra-to-stand-up-video/
Filed under Hobby Lobby, Religious Liberty, Supreme Court
When did religious freedom become an “extreme agenda”?
Kelly File tries to have a DIALOGUE on this subject, but the liberal can’t shut UP long enough to let the conservative SPEAK. I HATE it when people TALK OVER each other and loved Dana’s snark, “You’ll learn more if you keep your mouth shut.” LOL Sad truth is, Leftists don’t want to learn anything from anyone who disagrees with them. They just want to SILENCE us.
H/t Pistol Pete
Filed under Religious Liberty
Catholics respond with the power of prayer
When a group at Harvard announced they planned to hold a Satanic Black Mass ritual on Monday, May 12, 2014, Catholics responded by scheduling a Eucharistic Procession and Holy Hour for 8-9 PM at St. Paul’s Church to make reparation and to pray. These are my favorite photos from the event.
Part of Harvard President’s statement:
“Consistent with the University’s commitment to free expression, including expression that may deeply offend us, the decision to proceed is and will remain theirs. At the same time, we will vigorously protect the right of others to respond—and to address offensive expression with expression of their own. I plan to attend a Eucharistic Holy Hour and Benediction at St. Paul’s Church on our campus on Monday evening in order to join others in reaffirming our respect for the Catholic faith at Harvard and to demonstrate that the most powerful response to offensive speech is not censorship, but reasoned discourse and robust dissent.”
The Black Mass was canceled after its sponsor withdrew support and the group was unable to find any venue to host the event.
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Filed under Catholic Church, Prayer, Religious Liberty
Bible banned by elementary school teacher
The principal of the school upheld this teacher’s actions. The school district is facing a law suit now.
A Florida school teacher humiliated a 12-year-old boy in front of an entire class after she caught him reading the Bible during free reading time.
The teacher, at Park Lakes Elementary School in Fort Lauderdale, ordered Giovanni Rubeo to pick up the telephone on her desk and call his parents.
As the other students watched, the teacher left a terse message on the family’s answering machine.
“I noticed that he has a book – a religious book – in the classroom,” she said on the recording. “He’s not permitted to read those books in my classroom.”
The Liberty Institute, a legal firm that specializes in religious liberty issues, is now representing the Rubeo family.
They are demanding that Giovanni be allowed to read his Bible during free reading time. They also want the school to issue a written apology to the boy.
The Liberty Institute’s director of litigation called it “the most shocking” he’s seen in his 12 years doing this kind of work.
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/05/05/teacher-tells-student-cant-read-bible-in-my-classroom/
Filed under Education, Religious Liberty
200 years ago in American law
Last year, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of this landmark case, the trial was recreated on stage by the Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies at NYU. Videos of the performance are posted at YouTube if you want to see it. The full play is in 6 parts; the link should create easy access to Parts 2-6 to appear on the right side of the screen.
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Filed under Catholic Church, Religious Liberty
So a lesbian walks into a Muslim barbershop
It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but (unlike my graphic, which I’m pretty sure is a photoshop), this really happened. The Muslim barber refused, as his religion required. So naturally the lesbian has taken it to court, cuz when you’re a libtard, that’s how you handle all your butthurts. Normal people just go find another barbershop. Do libtard lawyer advertise this? “Did someone make you feel bad? Sue the bastard!”
How do courts decide which protected group gets protected? According to Ezra Levant of the Toronto Sun, it’s like poker.
- A white, Christian male has the lowest hand — it’s like he’s got just one high card, maybe an ace. So almost everyone trumps him.
- A white woman is just a bit higher — like a pair of twos. Enough to beat a white man, but not much more.
- A gay man is like having two pairs in poker.
- A gay woman — a lesbian like McGregor — is like having three of a kind.
- A black lesbian is a full house — pretty tough to beat.
- Unless she’s also in a wheelchair, which means she’s pretty much a straight flush.
- The only person who could trump that would be a royal flush. If the late Sammy Davis Jr. — who was black, Jewish and half-blind — were to convert to Islam and discover he was 1/64th Aboriginal.
So who has a better hand … the lesbian who wants a boy cut from a Muslim barber or the Muslim whose religion says he can’t touch any woman but his wife?
That’s a toughie. A similar question of tolerance for one protected group over another arose during the murder trial of George Zimmerman, when the prosecution’s star witness Rachel Jeantel intimated under cross-examination that Trayvon Martin was anti-gay. Do you recall any marches by the Lambda Society or GLAAD denouncing blacks for their Stone Age view of homosexuality? Nah. Instead, liberals buried their heads in the sand, waiting till the news cycle moved on to other headlines.
Hypocrisy much?
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Muslim barber refuses to cut hair of lesbian: Whose rights trump whose?
Filed under George Zimmerman, Islam, Race Relations, Religious Liberty, Trayvon Martin
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