Escalating Hysteria and Absurdity at Mt. Progressive

I thought when Donald J. Trump was elected president, we would begin to decline this summit of stupidity; but apparently, there is no designated elevation for Mt. Progressive. The skies the limit when it comes to their hysteria and absurdity.

President Trump cannot sneeze without raising the ire of the PC police and their representatives in Congress. Did he use a white hanky? He’s a racist! Did he snot on a rag? He’s a misogynist! Did he throw that tissue in a trash can? He’s a xenophobe!

So, it shouldn’t be a surprise when the president is denounced for voicing what many of us think, or when he gets blamed for a chant from a crowd at a rally. His detractors are willing to create controversy, or manufacture a crisis where there is none in the hopes of dinging his approval numbers. Hey, it worked on Bush, it’ll work on Trump.

So here we are, once again, having to endure another tyrant trope from the “mainstream media” simply because President Trump enunciated a time-worn truism, America: Love it or Leave it.

The following day, you would’ve thought that the commander-in-chief had effectuated a policy equivalent to the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798. His criticism of the Four Whores of Anti-Semitism where construed as an attack on the First Amendment. Fears of actual concentration camps danced in their heads, with visions of toilet water splashing their chin. Their hysteria was absolutely laughable.

The simple fact is Trump can’t do squat. Where have these people been for the past three years? He can’t enforce existing laws or policies without injunctions from an Obama judge. Congress is constantly threatening him with impeachment, and the “media” have been in constant panic mode since he won the primary in 2016. And they think Tyrant Trump is going to roundup dissenters and send them back to the hellholes from whence they came?

All I have to say is take a deep breath, strap on an oxygen tank, because we’ve got a long way to go before we reach the summit of Mt. Progressive.

Democrats to Hold Hearings on Fake News Crisis

Democrats are preparing congressional hearings on President Trump’s assertions that the mainstream media are fake news. Do we really need this dog and pony show? Conservatives have known about their bias for decades. But according to these dimwits in Washington D.C. any criticism of these professional propagandists is considered a constitutional crisis. They believe an attack on these slimeballs is an attack on the First Amendment, as though they are the sole proprietors on freedom of the press and speech.


These so-called journalist and their Beltway brethren are nothing more than society people. They have traded their integrity for approbation from well-connected elites. They care nothing about the truth; indeed they believe they can shape the truth as an ends to a means. These so-called professionals don’t deserve our respect. If anything they deserve our condemnation. President Trump has shown a light on this cockroach party and these pest resent being outed for the diseased vermin they are.

I happened upon a journal entry by Thoreau. I thought his post is as fitting today as it was back in 1852:


April 24. I know two species of men. The vast majority are men of society . They live on the surface ; they are interested in the transient and fleeting ; they are like driftwood on the flood. They ask forever and only the news, the froth and scum of the eternal sea . They use policy ; they make up for want of matter with manner. They have many letters to write. Wealth and the approbation of men is to them success . The enterprises of society are something final and sufficing for them. The world advises them, and they listen to its advice. They live wholly an evanescent life, creatures of circumstance. It is of prime importance to them who is the president of the day. They have no knowledge of truth, but by an exceedingly dim and transient instinct, which stereotypes the church and some other institutions . They dwell, they are ever, right in my face and eyes like gnats ; they are like motes, so near the eyes that, looking beyond, they appear like blurs; they have their being between my eyes and the end of my nose. The terra firma of my existence lies far beyond, behind them and their improvements. If they write, the best of there deal in "elegant literature ." Society, man, has no prize to offer me that can tempt me ; not one.


Shoo, Propagandists, don't bother me. You no longer have the power to persuade me and a growing number of Americans. We have seen through your veil and have witnessed your lies.

Source:

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/01/democrats-prepare-congressional-hearings-over-trump-saying-fake-news/


https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Journal-3-Chapter-7.pdf

A River Runs Through the Courts

Is there no end to liberal stupidity? Every day we're confronted with a new case of activism that is completely devoid of reality. The latest Wonderland absurdity is: Rivers have rights. Here is an excerpt from The New Republic:


Last September, an unlikely plaintiff sued the state of Colorado: the Colorado River. The lawsuit, claiming that the state had violated the river’s right to flourish and regenerate, was filed by the environmental organization Deep Green Resistance, who brought the suit as next friends of the river. “Environmental law has failed to protect the natural environment because it accepts the status of nature and ecosystems as property,” DGR stated in the filing. The current law “merely regulat[es] the rate at which the natural environment is exploited.” They argued that the very existence of the river was at stake, and that the time had come for courts to recognize damage—not just to human users of the ecosystem, as law typically does, but to the ecosystem itself


Humans aren’t the only ones with rights, after all. In recent years courts have heard cases arguing that chimps, elephants, and other highly intelligent animals should have legal personhood. In India, Ecuador, and New Zealand, courts and legislatures have recently recognized some special rivers as having their own legal rights—the time seemed ripe for DGR’s argument. In 2010, the Citizens United decision extended First Amendment rights to corporations. In 2014, the Hobby Lobby decision secured closely held corporations some measure of religious freedom. U.S. law has granted personhood to corporate entities, the suit argued. Why not ecological ones?


First Amendment rights are afforded to corporate entities because they are comprised of people who have a financial interest in laws and regulations that affect them and their business. A river is not a person. An animal is not a person. This shouldn’t be hard to understand.


Source:

https://newrepublic.com/article/148352/can-rivers-people-too

Fake News Hides Behind the First Amendment

The mainstream medias' hubris is truly astonishing.  These people manufacture stories, use anonymous sources and openly advocate for a political party all the while thinking there will be no consequences for their actions.  As a matter of fact, they’re astonished anyone would question their veracity or mock their fabrications.   

This holier-than-thou mentality is pervasive throughout media and not just the beltway.  The Charlotte Observer believes anyone who questions, criticizes or mocks their reporting or editorials is attacking the Constitution itself.  Here is an excerpt from editorial page editor, Taylor Batten:

Immersed in the throes of such a polarized time in America, and with the president constantly disparaging the media, it is encouraging, emboldening and essential to remember that the nation’s brightest legal minds have understood the importance of protecting a vibrant free press since the founding of the country.

I was reminded of that after Jon Buchan, the longtime Observer attorney and one of the nation’s best First Amendment lawyers, spoke to our newsroom this month. Based on his suggestion, I went back and read landmark Supreme Court and other court rulings in First Amendment cases.

A common theme emerges: A vigorous free press is more than something to tolerate; it is fundamental to who we are as a nation, and an enabler of our democracy. Tireless questioning of government officials, from Trump on down, should not pit Democrats versus Republicans; it should pit those who want authoritarian rule against the rest of us.

Now that’s laughable.  Where was Taylor Batten and the Charlotte Observer when Barack Hussein Obama trounced all over the U.S. Constitution with his executive orders?  Where was the Charlotte Observer when the Obama administration violated the treaty clause when they conspired with the Iranian regime?  Or for that fact, the countless abuses by an authoritarian regime hell bent on transforming the United States of America without our consent?!  Spare your lectures Mr. Batten.  And by the way, the First Amendment doesn’t protect the press from criticism or public censure.

What is really astonishing is these people are incapable of recognizing their own biases; or they do and don't care.  Either way they’ve earned the moniker of “Fake News.”

Source:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/taylor-batten/article163006833.html

Democrats Have Destroyed Journalistic Integrity

When I was a kid, I believed journalists were unbiased agents for the truth.  It didn’t take long to disabuse myself of these naive notions.  Back in the day,  they tried to mask their socialist proclivities; now they’re in our face.

Progressives have taken over the media and now that industry is going to pay a price for defiling the First Amendment.   Camille Paglia, a professor of journalism, is outraged at what Democrats have done to a great American institution.

 

“It’s obscene,” she said. “It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage.”

“I’m a professor of media studies, in addition to a professor of humanities, OK?” she continued. “And I think it’s absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism. Right now, it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity that’s going on where the news media have turned themselves over to the most childish fraternity, kind of buffoonish behavior.”

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/06/21/camille-paglia-blames-dems-for-destroying-journalism-it-is-going-to-take-decades-to-recover/

Progressive Judges Bastardize the Establishment Clause

Progressives have bastardized almost every aspect of the U.S. Constitution and in particular the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.  Recently, a district court judge in Hawaii deemed President Trump’s travel ban from 5 Islamic countries unconstitutional.  The President’s ban meets the statutory criteria set forth by Congress which has plenary power when it comes to immigration and naturalization.

I am amazed at how woefully ignorant these judges can be when it comes to the original intent and history of the Establishment Clause.  The answer is quite simple, the Framers didn’t want the federal government to force States to finance a national religion i.e. Baptist, Presbyterian, Anglican, Congregationalist, etc. etc.   

Anyone with a modicum of knowledge of early American history is aware that the colonies were forced to support the Church of England through taxation.  Marriages and births were not recognized if colonists didn’t go through the Anglican Church.  This could have serious legal consequences in probate.  The Establishment Clause ensured religious freedom from the federal government.

No one has a right to immigrate into the United States.  Immigration is a political decision that is to be decided through our representatives.  And if we, the American people, decide Muslims are not welcomed into our society, no judge has the constitutional authority to override that decision.

Source:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/15/anti-trump-travel-ban-lawyer-admits-honor-killings-are-islamic-and-should-therefore-be-removed-from-exec-order/

President Trump Embraces God at Inauguration

Progressives and their godless agents are in panic mode after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.  Our new commander-in-chief practically declared war on centralized government and all the corruptocrats that infest it.  He also publicly embraced God and Christianity on the Capitol steps.

Progressive organizations, like the Freedom from Religion Foundation, have a mission to remove Christian prayer from city halls and the public square.  These heathens have successfully used the courts to fundamentally transform the First Amendment into an anti-Christian battering ram.  Their interpretation is historically incorrect and an affront to the ideals that forged this great country.

The Freedom from Religion Foundation can sue small town America because they’re easy pickings and can’t afford long drawn out court battles.  Let’s see if they have the balls to take on the Trump administration.

Source:

https://ffrf.org/news/archives

Democrats Plan to Fundamentally Transform First Amendment Rights

The Obama administration is scheduled to handover ICANN to the United Nations at the end of this month.  This coincides with his plans to fundamentally transform the United States from a sovereign nation to one under global governance.   There is no better way to attack an American’s First Amendment right of free speech than to hand the internet over to a body of authoritarians.

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton predicted the internet will be fundamentally transformed within ten years.  Free speech on the world-wide web will effectively be killed off.

What they’re talking about is succumbing to the demands of foreign governments and foreign interests who say, in what is effectively a global means of communication, it’s just wrong to have the United States in charge of it.

But the fact is, under American control, it’s had remarkable growth. It’s been kept free. It’s been able to withstand a lot of pressure to try and set rules that favor one side or another. And in an international environment, I can tell you from my own experience, when you get all kinds of governments from all over the world setting standards and making decisions, it will be far less free than it is now.

And I don’t think the particular kind of transfer we’re talking about now is the end of the game. This is a black-and-white, binary choice: it’s either under American control, or it’s not. And once we let go of it, we are never getting it back.

That’s the plan.  Democrats have been bitching about Tea Party activists and an alternative media that exposes their corruption for over a decade.  They want to control the narrative.  There is no better way to circumvent the U.S. Constitution than by having totalitarians in the United Nations do their bidding.  But that’s not the end of it.  Here is what John Bolton predicted if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.

That said, I believe that if Hillary Clinton wins, she will do what I expected Obama to do, which is try to transfer more and more American sovereignty into international organizations across the range of issues — whether it’s climate change or the conduct of international affairs. I think Obama didn’t do as much as I expected in that vein because he really just doesn’t care about international affairs as much as he cares about ‘fundamentally transforming’ our country.

I think Hillary does have even grander ambitions, and so that’s why what we started off, the end of ICANN or the effective control of ICANN over the Internet, is an excellent example of global governance replacing American sovereignty in effect. And I think she’ll be much more on that. I hope that’s something Trump emphasizes in the upcoming debate.

 Barack Obama said as much during his speech to the United Nations last week.

Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/09/22/john-bolton-within-ten-years-internet-know-will-end/

Obama Benedict Arnolds the Internet

Democrats can’t wait to hand the internet over to a foreign body simply because they want censorship.  These people don’t believe in freedom of speech when it comes to their political foes.  Look at what they did to the Tea Party.  Senator Chuck E. Schumer and his comrades demanded the IRS crackdown on citizens who dared to organize and speak out against the abuses of the federal government.  I guess some people are more equal than others. 

The First Amendment is fundamentally American. For Barack Obama to hand the internet over to a foreign body is equivalent to Benedict Arnold handing over West Point to the British during the Revolutionary War.  Arnold committed treason over petty jealousies and for money; Obama just despises this country.   

Democrats Outsource Internet to a League of Tyrants

The internet has been the bane of the Democratic Party since its inception.  Conservatives have used this vehicle to expose their lies and nefarious activities for decades.  Anchorman Dan Rather lost his job because a website demonstrated that he and his team fraudulently manufactured evidence in an attempt to damn President George W. Bush’s National Guard service.  Many a democrat has been embarrassed by the free flow of information and they want it stopped. 

The best way to censor free speech is to outsource the internet to a league of authoritarians who will do the dirty work for the Democratic Party.  One only has to look at how Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Microsoft have colluded with the European Union and China to stifle free speech.  Believe me; the Democratic Party is just as authoritarian as these regimes.  

The internet is scheduled to be handed over to an international organization on October 1^st of this year.  We can expect a crackdown on freedom of speech shortly after.  These tyrants will do the hit-job Democrats want them to do.

Source:

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/31/facebook-youtube-twitter-microsoft-eu-hate-speech-code

Presidential Election Should be a Referendum on the Supreme Court

Americans have to formally decide our true character.  A house divided against itself cannot stand.  We cannot be half free and half teat squawker.  We cannot long endure as a free people by catering to a class of malcontents who demand forfeiture of our sacred rights on the premise of equality. This presidential election will determine what kind of country we want to be and Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement should be part of that discourse.

The Supreme Court, like it or not, has become the sole arbiter of what is constitutional and what is not.  That was not the intent of our founders.  All three branches were to engage, and indeed, check and balance one another.  We no longer have a check on the federal judiciary and our republic is in peril because of it.

 

A future Supreme Court will decide if the Bill of Rights pertains to everyone, or a protected class.  These jurists will determine whether or not States are vassals to the federal ummah and if there are limitations to the central governments power. 

There is a cabal within that body that has consistently voted against federalism and traditional values.  These so-called jurists have assaulted the First Amendment rights of free speech, association and religion particularly when it comes to Christians and conservatives.  Americans need to decide if that minority opinion on the court should become the majority.  This presidential election is a referendum on American values in more ways than one.

Gov. Chris Christie Supports Black Robed Thuggery

Some of these republican candidates are making it easy to be winnowed out of consideration for the presidency.  Birthright citizenship eliminated over half of them and now we have a Kentucky county clerk jailed for exercising her First Amendment rights and defying a lawless federal judiciary.

Gov. Chris Christie has eliminated himself on both counts.  Here is his excuse for allowing birthright citizenship:

Christie: It’s in the Constitution and I don’t think we should be looking to change it. Now, what I said was, if we wanted to have comprehensive immigrant reform, I’d be willing to listen to anything. But the truth of the matter is that it’s not something that, that’s not something that we should be focused on, that is an applause line. The fact is that it is in the Constitution, let’s talk about the things we can fix, and fix simply without having to amend the Constitution where we would need two-thirds of the Congress and 38 states to agree.

Birthright citizenship for foreign nationals and their anchor babies is not in the Constitution.  I’m tired of politicians and media pundits perpetuating this lie.  The citizenship clause was designed to protect ex-slaves and their progeny.  That’s it!

Here is Gov. Christie’s response to the jailing of a Kentucky county clerk:

Earlier Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Davis should be given another government job, because those licenses “have to be issued” under the law.

 “People have a right to practice their religion,” Christie said on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning. “Now, I’ve said what I would do with this woman is to move her to another job where this is not an objection for her. Because you have to follow the law — and the law has to be these licenses have to be issued.”

“I think we should give her an option to do another job where her religious concerns are not going to be put into the cross hairs on this. So we have to have respect for people, but the government also has to function,” Christie said, adding that fellow 2016 Republican candidates shouldn’t “play politics” with the case.

Do we have to remind Gov. Christie that Kim Davis is an elected official?  Maybe a federal judge can find him a new job too.  How about janitor?  I’m sure a black robed thug can divine that in the 14^th Amendment as well.

Source:

 http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/23/christie-abolishing-birthright-citizenship-is-an-applause-line-video/#ixzz3lCK9c7Ys

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/kim-davis-the-kentucky-clerk-who-was-jailed-last-128638521231.html

Senator Ted Cruz Denounces Arrest of a Christian Clerk

Senator Ted Cruz is saying what many are thinking.  The Supreme Court is infested with progressive activist masquerading as jurist.  Their gay marriage dictum is a direct attack on American’s First Amendment rights.  Christians are being persecuted by black robed thugs.  Here is his statement in full:

“Today, judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny. Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong. This is not America.

“I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally. I stand with every American that the Obama Administration is trying to force to chose between honoring his or her faith or complying with a lawless court decision.

“In dissent, Chief Justice Roberts rightly observed that the Court’s marriage decision has nothing to do with the Constitution. Justice Scalia observed that the Court’s decision was so contrary to law that state and local officials would choose to defy it.

“For every politician — Democrat and Republican — who is tut-tutting that Davis must resign, they are defending a hypocritical standard. Where is the call for the mayor of San Francisco to resign for creating a sanctuary city — resulting in the murder of American citizens by criminal illegal aliens welcomed by his lawlessness?

“Where is the call for President Obama to resign for ignoring and defying our immigration laws, our welfare reform laws, and even his own Obamacare?

“When the mayor of San Francisco and President Obama resign, then we can talk about Kim Davis.

“Those who are persecuting Kim Davis believe that Christians should not serve in public office. That is the consequence of their position. Or, if Christians do serve in pubic office, they must disregard their religious faith–or be sent to jail.

“Kim Davis should not be in jail. We are a country founded on Judeo-Christian values, founded by those fleeing religious oppression and seeking a land where we could worship God and live according to our faith, without being imprisoned for doing so.

“I call upon every Believer, every Constitutionalist, every lover of liberty to stand with Kim Davis. Stop the persecution now.”

Source:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ted-cruz-kim-davis-contempt

Oregon Bureaucrat Denies Christian Business Owners First Amendment Rights

The strange case of an overzealous politician and bureaucrat hunting down Christian business owners and denying them freedom of association and religion has morphed into a complete repudiation of the First Amendment.  A Christian couple was ordered by Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian to “cease and desist” from speaking or publishing their thoughts about the commissioner’s thuggery in driving them out of business because they didn’t want to participate in a gay wedding.

The Daily Signal reported the following:

“This effectively strips us of all our First Amendment rights,” the Kleins, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, which has since closed, wrote on their Facebook page. “According to the state of Oregon we neither have freedom of religion or freedom of speech.”

 The cease and desist came about after Aaron and Melissa Klein participated in an interview with Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins. During the interview, Aaron said among other things, “This fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong.”

Lawyers for plaintiffs, Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer, argued that in making this statement, the Kleins violated an Oregon law banning people from acting on behalf of a place of public accommodation (in this case, the place would be the Kleins’ former bakery) to communicate anything to the effect that the place of public accommodation would discriminate.

“The Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries hereby orders [Aaron and Melissa Klein] to cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published … any communication to the effect that any of the accommodations … will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination be made against, any person on account of their sexual orientation,” Avakian wrote.

Commissioner Brad Avakian is a typical government thug straight from old school USSR, and that is basically what Hans Von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation stated:

It is exactly this kind of oppressive persecution by government officials that led the pilgrims to America. And Commissioner Avakian’s order that the Kleins stop speaking about this case is even more outrageous—and also a fundamental violation of their right to free speech under the First Amendment.

 Avakian would have fit right in as a bureaucrat in the Soviet Union or Red China. Oregon should be ashamed that such an unprincipled, scurrilous individual is a government official in the state.

If there is one thing we must learn, it's liberals have no shame.

Source:

http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/02/state-silences-bakers-who-refused-to-make-cake-for-lesbian-couple-fines-them-135k/

Progressive Torquemadas Hunt American Christians

The people who populated the English colonies in North America were Christians with deeply held beliefs.  They were nonconformist who wished to practice their religion without fear of persecution by those who would wield political power to coerce uniformity of thought.

The Library of Congress published the following on their website:

 Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the seventeenth century by men and women, who, in the face of European persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions and fled Europe. The New England colonies, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland were conceived and established "as plantations of religion." Some settlers who arrived in these areas came for secular motives--"to catch fish" as one New Englander put it--but the great majority left Europe to worship God in the way they believed to be correct. They enthusiastically supported the efforts of their leaders to create "a city on a hill" or a "holy experiment," whose success would prove that God's plan for his churches could be successfully realized in the American wilderness. Even colonies like Virginia, which were planned as commercial ventures, were led by entrepreneurs who considered themselves "militant Protestants" and who worked diligently to promote the prosperity of the church.

Even the federal government recognizes Christianity played an important role in forming these United States.  So why have they forsaken the very foundation that made this country great?  Why are they persecuting Christians who wish to practice their religion by using the force of political power? 

The Obama administration has made it quite clear Christians, who own a business, are not allowed to practice their faith in the public square.  Many have been sued and bankrupted.  WND has made a case there is a hunt for Christian business owners whom refuse to participate in gay marriages.  This has caused a crisis of conscience and a usurpation of First Amendment rights.

 

This hostility has permeated our military.  Chaplains are being punished for presiding over private religious counseling sessions.  One in a Ranger battalion was reprimanded for using the Bible and promoting Christianity.  Another in the Navy lost his career.  The word is out: if you’re a Christian, you’d better think twice before entering the military.

Even funding websites has renounced Christian causes.  TownHall.com reported the following:

 Sure enough, after a GoFundMe site was set up to help the Kleins defray their legal expenses, the thought police went into action. Under pressure, GoFundMe quickly shut down the site that had raised over $110,000 for the Kleins. It also shut down a site created to help Arlene's Flowers, another company whose owner, Barronelle Stutzman, has faced civil fines for refusing to provide services to same-sex marriage ceremonies, citing her religious faith.

Most recently, the site shut down fundraising efforts to help the families of Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

The company issued a statement saying that they had changed their policy, which now bans any fundraising campaigns "in defense of formal charges or claims of heinous crimes, violent, hateful, sexual or discriminatory acts." Competitor site IndieGoGo soon followed suit.

Here's the magic formula: Make a claim of a "hateful" act (easy enough; every policy disagreement is "hate" these days), use social media and litigation to threaten and financially devastate your target, and then prevent any financial support from reaching them.

Progressive Torquemadas see Christians as a threat to their social order.  Anyone who doesn’t conform to their utopian mosque is considered a heretic.  There is no freedom of religion with these tormentors.  Worship will be contained at your home or church with their blessings, of course.

 

Source:

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/638918

http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/courts-conclude-faith-loses-to-gay-demands/

http://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2015/05/07/the-lefts-new-insult-go-fund-yourself-n1995251/page/full

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada

Homeland Security Changes Freedom of Religion to Worship

Liberals aren’t content changing the meaning of words to suit their agenda, or distorting the original intent of elastic clauses in the Constitution as a means to expand the purview of the federal government.  Now they’re rewriting the First Amendment in an insidious attempt to redefine religious freedom.  The Daily Signal reported the following:

A Republican senator from Oklahoma pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at a hearing Wednesday about why the U.S. is “misrepresenting” Americans’ First Amendment right to freedom of religion to immigrants who are applying to become U.S. citizens.

“We in the United States actually have freedom of religion, not freedom of worship,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Johnson yesterday during a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing.

Lankford was referring to the department’s decision to include “freedom of worship” instead of “freedom of religion” as a basic American right listed in the civics test that all immigrants must take to become a naturalized U.S. citizen.

This has been around for 10 years?  This demonstrates how deeply embedded statist are in these bureaucracies.

Source: 

http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/30/republican-senator-questions-why-immigration-exam-calls-freedom-of-religion-freedom-of-worship/

Apostles Preach the Gospel of Washington D.C.

Joseph de Maistre once wrote the maxim, “Every country gets the government it deserves.”  That is a powerful truism; one which deserves reflection, particularly in the world’s oldest republic turning into a free-for-all democracy.

 

The United States has become a Petri dish of populism despite warnings from our founding fathers.  They knew the perils of a democracy.  Life, liberty, property and self-government would eventually fall prey to demagogues who preach envy and greed from the pulpit of a grand centralized government.  These saviors from a distant capitol will take care of every base need and want of a salivating populace by taking from others.  Their “good book” is a preponderance of tax codes and regulations.  Their apostles are bureaucrats, lobbyists, community organizers, academia and so-called journalist preaching the gospel of Washington D.C.

To ensure the power of the federal pulpit, religious institutions have to be marginalized and silenced and what better way to do that then by advancing an onerous tax code that punishes political speech.  This was first done with the Tariff Act of 1894.  That law was declared unconstitutional in 1896.  Progressives wouldn’t be denied.  They once again re-established a church tax exemption in the Revenue Act of 1913.  This act is the foundation for violating the First Amendment rights of dissenting Christians in modern America by punishing churches that dare speak out against the depredations of a corrupt political system.

Progressives have found other means to advance their agenda by changing the behavior of congregants.  The Washington Free Beacon reported the following:

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is spending $84,000 to study how churches can be used to combat climate change.

A taxpayer-funded graduate fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor is examining 17 faith-based institutions that have implemented “sustainability initiatives” in the hopes of developing workshops to teach pastors and other religious leaders how to change the behaviors of their congregants.

“Climate change—which affects traditional faith-based efforts to improve human health, mitigate poverty and redress social inequity—is inspiring religious organizations to advocate for clean air and water, restore ecosystems, and conserve resources,” a grant for the project, which began last fall, states. “This project seeks to understand the empirical experiences of faith-based environmental efforts within communities.”

“Through what motivations and processes do congregation level sustainability initiatives emerge?” the grant asks. “What factors facilitate and/or hinder implementation of these initiatives? What environmental and community outcomes are perceived to have been achieved through these initiatives?”

“The results will provide insights into the role of religion and faith communities in motivating environmental behavior,” it said

   

Progressives don’t have a problem with separation of church and state as long as that church is the state.   Heterogeneous thought and governance is an apostasy to these cardinals of conformity.  Salvation can only be gained at the altar of the religion of liberalism.

Source:

http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-spends-84000-to-study-churches-that-preach-climate-change/

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2012/04/progressives-muzzle-churches-through.html

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_de_Maistre

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Wedding Cakes

Americans have a right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and wedding cakes!  Wedding cakes isn’t in the Declaration of Independence?  Surely, it’s in the Bill Rights.  No?  Are you trying to tell me the First Amendment declares we have a right to religious freedom and association, but no wedding cakes? 

In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, (probably in a vain attempt to evade the all-seeing eye of federal government bureaucrats), the state of Indiana and a small town pizzeria have come under attack for defending and espousing religious freedom, to be more particular, Christianity.

Militant gays and their praetorian guards in the media have been hunting down Christians, whom have the audacity to exercise their beliefs beyond the church doors.  If you hang a cross in your business, you’re the one who could be crucified, just ask Memories Pizza.

Progressives would have us believe that businesses are public establishments and owners are mere servants.  After all, you didn’t build that!  If your religion believes a marriage is between one man and one woman and participation in a gay wedding violates your conscience, that’s too bad.

 

Our military has provisions for conscientious objectors.  Your conscription into the Gay Army is nonnegotiable.    

Maryland Coerces Churches into Preaching Global Warming Gospel

One of many complaints our founding fathers had with England was paying taxes to support the Anglican Church.  Many colonists found it a burden to support their local ministry and a state sanctioned religion.   That is what the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment was really meant to prevent before it became bastardized by progressives.

Maryland may not have an official green energy religion, but they have exacted a tax on those who don’t preach their gospel.  It could be one of many factors why a deep blue state elected a republican governor.

Now Prince George’s Country is offering a way for churches to avoid paying the tax, which is estimated to be an average of $744 per year for them — preach “green” to their parishioners.

So far 30 pastors have agreed to begin “‘green’ ministries to maintain the improvements at their churches, and to preach environmentally focused sermons to educate their congregations” to avoid being hit with the tax, The Washington Post reports.

Prince George’s County’s Department of Environment director Adam Ortiz told WBAL Radio churches “don’t have to preach, per se,” that they could avoid the tax if they “provide educational programs to teach them (parishioners) about how to be more sustainable. And to help them engage in grant programs and other way that they can control the runoff from their property.”

Man-made global warming is a religion to progressives.  This tax is a means to compel churches into preaching their gospel.

Source:  http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/19/maryland-county-to-churches-preach-environmentalism-and-get-a-tax-break/