Discussion for article #238229
Sam Brownshirt strikes again.
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When will these talibangelical State governors realize that a State E. O. will never stand up in a Federal court?
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First off Gov Brownshirt, the 1st Amendment protects your religious liberty. 2nd- the Freedom of Religion also means Freedom from Religion.
Lastly, NO ONE is taking your Religious Freedom away. I am sure most people donât want to have your Religion rubbed in their face.
I would like to thank all of the lazy Democratic Voters and the US Supreme court for this âhappyâ set of circumstances.
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Time for Sharia believers to start a solid campaign for establishment in all these red states.
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Brownback â More like BROWNstreak from your BACKside â
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Brownbackâhe never disappoints. ALWAYS a scumbag.
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If you take state taxpayersâ money (whether as an adoption agency or other provider of services, or as a state employee), you work for everybody in the state. Itâs really that simple.
If you are a group that wants to discriminate, stop taking state grants and payments. If youâre an individual who doesnât want to provide services to gay folk or anybody else of whom you disapprove, find another job.
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Best comment Iâve read lately? On The Guardian. With typical British understatement, instead of calling someone a douchebag, the commenter posted âHeâs full of Massengil.â
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Brownback has most likely been made aware of the likelihood his order will be smashed in court. But the bigots in his base of support want action, so heâs responding to their demands.
It buys him time while the GOP holdouts plot their next move. Weâll see lots more action in the run up to the 2016 election.
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Puritans havenât improved over the centuries. Theyâre still after the freedom to judge, condemn, exclude, and generally bark out commandments telling everyone else what to do and how to live. Australia the penal colony received a more desirable class of rejects.
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This religious freedom movement came too late for a generation of Americans. 50 years ago there would have been a great many business owners claiming an all white lunch counter was something their God commanded. Whether attributable to Biblical teachings or not, they could have asserted it was their sincerely held belief. These state laws donât even require those objecting to gay marriage cite the basis for their religious objections. They merely have to say they believe itâs what the Bible teaches. And if it doesnât? No matter.
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Speaking of taxpayersâ money, isnât it courageous brave for this statesman to take time out from his work on Kansasâ disastrous budget and waning economy to protect his constituents from this dire (albeit fictional) threat?
Gov. Brownback: Thank you for taking a moral stand in favor of treating some of your constituents as second-class citizens â and against dealing with more important issues. You, sir, are an inspiration to us all!
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I would like to point out you are talking about Kansas here. It doesnât matter how fired up Dems are, there simply arenât enough of them. So donât blame Democrats here. Blame the POS education system in Kansas that produces ignorant voters.
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Iâm still trying to convince my niece from Topeka that Lewis & Clark didnât carve out the Grand Canyon.
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The lamest thing about this particular order is that Brownback tailored it so narrowly that nobody could possibly invoke it to do anything remotely praiseworthy or worthwhile.
So a County Sheriff who really took the parable of the Sheep and the Goats seriously, (Matthew 25:31-46) couldnât refuse to perform evictions and foreclosures, for example, out of his deeply personal, Biblical conviction that making people homeless would be the same as kicking out Jesus Christ, Himself.
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And will also waste taxpayer money defending those EOs!
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Though Jesus listed his occupation as a carpenter, he was actually more active as a caterer, handing the wedding at Cana, feeding 3,000 in the wilderness and then feeding 5,000. None of these accounts mention him checking to see if any of the guests were gay. Is religious liberty really at risk in Kansas, or do we just have some fools demanding the right to hate? I would bet on the latter.
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Puffing hard on the fading embers. Is there even smoke?
In the end, you canât just make it up and call it âlawâ and âlibertyâ. Though it does get you one more day on the front pages.
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Brownback should be forced to answer the question about the specific difference between Kansas EO 15-05 and Sharia law.
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