The Political Hat

     One would think, from all the Sturm und Drang from the so-called Gay Rights civil libertarians, that only evil oppressive Christians would oppress Gay couples by refusing to wholeheartedly participate in a Gay Wedding.

     Why, it’s almost as if only Western Civilization and those icky Christians oppose the joyous sacrament of two persons of the same sex getting it on!

     But lo, what is it that we see below?  Bakers of a politically correct religion not wanting to celebrate this same sex snogging?

     That’s unpossible!

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     Tolerance, to the Left, comprises of shutting up on your part, and saying what they want you to say.  Indiana, and Arkansas, considered (and been bullied into vetoing) local versions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has existed on the Federal level for two decades.  All that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act demands, is that for the state to restrict religious expression or actions, the state must show that the reason for doing so is compelling, and that it is the least restrictive way possible.

     The rabid Left has flipped their lid at the idea that they actually have to abide by the 1^st Amendment and respect people’s religious liberty.

     Ross Douthat has poised seven questions for those who are critical of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  Ed Whelan over at National Review Online responded with apt results.  To summarize what the Progressive Left would demand:

• Religious schools would loose all accreditation for refusing to accept the moral purity of homosexual or transexual/transgender beliefs and practices.
• Any student group that opposes this new “truth” will be disbanded.
• Those who do not accept the “truth” of the wonders of homosexuality or cross-dressing will be purged from elite institutions.
• No Minister or Priest may marry people unless they agree to marry same sex-couples.
• Churches and other organizations will be denies non-profit status just because they disagreed with the state.
• Parents who dare disagree will loose their parental rights.

     Whelan even summarizes the views of the Left:

“[H]aunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be making a decision you disapprove of—and the fervent use of government power to prevent and punish such a decision.”

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