“Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs”
— Victor Hugo
The Oregon bakery that was being sued, for refusing to provide their services for a same-sex “marriage” ceremony, has closed down because they refused to suspend their 1st Amendment rights of free expression. We are readily hurling towards a nation were only those who express opinions that are not inconsistent with the Progressive mantra. Everyone one else is treated like a second class citizen; this is termed anger by a loss of “privilege” over oppressed minorities. However, the clearly demonstrated power of these “oppressed” interest groups over the “privileged” establishes quite aptly that those who preach for “tolerance” of themselves, are least likely to show it to others.
As the veritable Ace put it:
“But what we see here in Oregon — as we saw earlier in New Mexico, and as we will see everywhere, unless we do not pass a law sharply delimiting people’s right to sue people for unamerican, subversive crime of nonconformity with the current temporary government’s ephemeral cultural allegiances — is the attempt of a group of people who have long contended that they merely wish to be left alone to live their lives in peace suddenly feeling a little power and deciding that now that they have a short-term burst of political muscle, they may now indulge in the bullying and coercion they once thought was kind of a bad thing.”
This isn’t just limited to the LGBTQ movement, but to individuals and groups who feel, or even just imagine, themselves to be persecuted. There is an almost animalistic urge people seem to have for revenge, and to oppress others as the only way to prevent their own oppression. It is a manichean struggle of “us vs. them.”
