Religious Persecution on Rise in America
Well, now we are getting down to the nitty gritty. It is Congress and the People against the liberals and the Government, and I have to tell you, folks, we are still up in the air on this one. How did we get so far down the left fork in this road?
The Government we now have in Washington, D.C., is exactly the kind of totalitarian state against which America rebelled in 1776. Think I am exaggerating? Look how far Government officials and their lackeys in the liberal media have gone to stifle dissent, silence opposition and befuddle the weak-minded to follow their lead down their path to nowhere.
The IRS attacks the Tea Party and other “conservative” organizations, the Justice Department hacks and prosecutes journalists who don’t toe the party line, and the NSA and Homeland Security have their noses in everyone’s business, monitoring our phone calls, emails and Internet browsing.
The left-wingers have taken us down so many dead-end roads, it is a challenge to list them all. But what all these roads have in common is that they all lead to a garbage heap of uniquely American principles.
Let’s take one – religious freedom. The Bill of Rights, specifically the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” which the Fourteenth Amendment makes applicable to all the states and their counties, cities and towns.
Where have liberal judges gone with this over the last few decades? Although the vast majority of Americans are religious and God-fearing to one degree or another, the liberals in the judiciary and the Government, a minority, have effectively established atheism as the national religion and are out to discourage or destroy the practice of any other religion.
Did you know that cities and counties all over the country are using zoning laws in efforts to restrict church meetings and religious gatherings and are getting away with it? The good thing about this kind of government misbehavior at the local level is that the guilty parties are really close to the people who elected them and pay their salaries, so they don’t have to wait on the U.S. Supreme Court for a couple of years to maybe get their noses broken.
Take Houston, Texas. Not too long ago, their mayor and her cronies on the city council passed an ordinance authorizing transgender persons to choose which public restroom to use. Now, you would think big city officials would have more important stuff to worry about than making a tiny minority feel better about their sexual identity, but I guess not.
A huge public outcry resulted, and local Christian ministers – notorious for their lack of sympathy for obnoxious and unrepentant sinners – helped organize a petition drive for a voter referendum on the ordinance, only to have the City reject the petitions due to unspecified “irregularities.” Some of the petitioners sued the City to force the referendum.
As we all know by now, this is becoming commonplace across the country. But to get back at those who were fighting them on this issue, the City of Houston issued subpoenas to the ministers, who were not even parties to the lawsuit, to produce their sermons and a ton of other papers to teach them a lesson for supporting the petitions and opposing Transgender Toilet Rights.
In the meantime, ISIS is running amok, terrorists are planning more attacks against U.S. interests, healthcare becomes more expensive by the day, and the is economy remains sluggish at best. But hey, people can use whichever bathroom they want, so all is right with the world.
With regard to religions, we are a very inclusive and tolerant people… this is good….and as it should be. However, when hatred & violence is OBVIOUSLY being promoted toward others… an ugly line has been crossed that disqualifies an organization from being considered a valid “religion”. In such a case, the government does have a responsibility to monitor and intervene when necessary. It is quite obvious which organizations promote hatred and violence. Indeed, they have clearly identified themselves… and yet our government is bringing them in by the tens of thousands. It used to be, that in order to enter this country, you had to take an oath to support and defend the principals on which this country was founded. A potential immigrant had to have skills… and be willing to WORK to support themselves.
These days, our government seems willing and EAGER to import people that despise the freedoms we have established at great cost. Incredibly, people belonging to clearly violent organizations are being imported for no other reason, than that politicians can get votes for free-bees. This is unjust and unfair to those who have to live amongst them. Even worse, our taxes are used to SUPPORT THEM.
In essence, we are forced to dig our own graves. This evil and has to stop.
KEEP UP THE GOOD INFO
Dear Frank,
As always you are right on target.
We can only pray that our new President-Elect sticks to his guns on the hard issues (although he has already begun to waffle on rejecting Obamacare).
We The People, (the silent, everyday, hard working Christian oriented majority of our nation) need to grow a backbone!!!
With this election, the time is right for us to take a firm and united stand against the constant pandering by our leadership (city, county, state and federal), who melt with one complaint from some nut-job minority. It is amazing to watch as they instantly kiss the butts of every noisy and usually immoral (if not criminal) minority that sounds off, while totally ignoring the Christian majority (We The People).
The time has come for us to stop bending over the barrel to be “understanding and forgiving” of our godless detractors. It is anything but Biblical truth to fail to fight back!
We must openly, loudly and aggressively defend our American Christian roots and the Constitution as it was written; not how atheists and liberals manipulate it.
Out First Amendment Right for “all religions” to practice freely, without governmental intrusion should be simple commonsense to understand. Yet, like the freedom of speech, you cannot yell fire in a crowded theater, you cannot defend a religion that does not honor the Constitution, our laws and intentionally victimizes others, i.e. Sharia Law, occultism and the like. No religion should victimize anyone!!!
I’ll get off my soap box now, but we must defend our faith in God and Jesus Christ … that is Biblical truth!
God Save America,
Orrin
The People of Houston spoke and the “Hero” law was rejected. This issue is dead and has no more bearing on anything. While I have nothing against the gay community I myself as many people in and around Houston do not want any men in the Woman’s Bathroom. I am a father and grandfather to a daughter and two granddaughters, I want them safe in every aspect of their lives and having privacy in the bathroom is one of those rights that they as human beings should have. If it is so important to transgender people then let them have a third bathroom that is open for use by all or even just for them. This way they can have their privacy as well.