Theresa Kenerly’s and Jim Cleveland’s parents carried on the proud Southern right wing Christian tradition of marrying ones sibling.
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This obviously couldn’t have happened because racism is a thing of the past.
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I would suggest a nice romantic weekend in the sun with one of ‘them’ people. I bet she would change her mind.
Loved the pics of the mayor and the four people on the city council (but I must say I was a might disappointed that Ms. Kenerly did not have a “Higher the hair, closer to Jesus” coif, but I guess she was really going for that “Ex-porn star really has let herself go” look), although it seems they may all be suffering from that dreaded medical affliction, “lackamelanin”.
But could I refuse to serve Jim Cleveland based on my deeply held religious beliefs?
Yep. The business leaders in the article who are against the “bigot bills” are primarily large companies and/or large organizations that know they can’t recruit top talent and/or clients in a State that may refuse anyone not White and/or christian vital services because - religion.
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Mayor Theresa Kenerly of Hoschton, Georgia — a nearly all-white suburb of Atlanta — rejected a candidate, Keith Henry, for city administrator because he’s black and she thought “the city isn’t ready for this,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Hoschton City Councilman Jim Cleveland added his racist views to the chorus. “I don’t know how they would take it if we selected a black administrator. She might have been right,” he said.
So far, the mentality reflected above is sadly all too common in this country …just stated a bit more blatantly than usual. But then the KKKouncilman had a sudden attack of candor and blurted out:
“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” he said. “I have black friends, I hired black people. But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
Note To Future Historians: Yup, you read that right, it’s the year 2019 and this kind of bullshit is still going on.
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Well yes, I believe you can.
This is from the last part of the NPR article, which talks about the Texas state Constitution:
SMU’s Carpenter says that other than the city ordinances, state law provides no safeguards. “It is already perfectly legal to decline service and to do so on a discriminatory basis in the state of Texas,” he says. “In fact the law in the state of Texas is that rights of conscience are already protected against state regulation for private citizens and professionals and businesses.”
Carpenter says that federal civil rights laws passed in the 1960s provide less protection from discrimination than many might imagine. Race, religion and national origin are protected from discrimination in public accommodations only, such as restaurants, hotels and theaters.
Carpenter believes that, given the already generous legal right to discriminate in Texas, the latest round of bills are merely a way for the Republican-dominated legislature to demonstrate to its evangelical base that they’re on the ball.
But I wonder how many confederate states’ constitutions are the same? Hell even those states that came into being after the Civil War.
Look at a map it is hardly a suburb of Atlanta, unless you want to commute 50 miles one way, twice a day.
And yet before Texas’s turn at ‘religious freedom’ there was IN and NC, and I wonder about Dylan Roof and the shooting at the Mother Emanuel Church. Would the state of SC have gone after him, if he had claimed religious freedom?
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The [town] attorney also warned city officials to stop putting their concerns in writing. “I do not think it in the best interests of the city (or the individual elected officials) to continue emailing in this manner,” he wrote in a March 14 email.
This does not seem like the best thing to put in writing.
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Hate is the heritage.
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“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” he said. “I have black friends, I hired black people. But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
And the “logical” conclusion to this line of “thinking” in red states with laws that allow business to discriminate, based on “sincerely-held religious beliefs”?
“If elected officials can’t discriminate – based on THEIR sincerely-held religious beliefs – then we’re discriminating against THEM!”
We all know it’s coming…
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They are who we think they are.
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I remember being told we now live in a “post-racial” society.
And soon, they’re gonna be hangin’ folks again from that “post.”
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"it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
Weird, I do not practice a religion or hold specific faith, but I think I have the lock on entering a heaven compared to these people. Maybe it is time for non-Christians to teach Christians how to christian. Or at least, real Christians start being vocal about what some of these people are doing to their religion.
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“One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism.” Isn’t an obscure Bible verse. Neither is “For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”
Can we stop pretending that people who claim the mantle of Christianity to justify their prejudices speak for the Christian faith?
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“I’m a Christian and my Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” he said. “I have black friends, I hired black people. But when it comes to all this stuff you see on TV, when you see blacks and whites together, it makes my blood boil because that’s just not the way a Christian is supposed to live.”
Jesus would denounce you, Sir. 
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