Abraham
Lincoln presciently noted that “America
will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed
ourselves.” If we carefully survey
our political scene, both macro and micro, our republic may be ending, “…not
with a bang but a whimper.”
The
second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence states that “We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among
Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed….” Let’s fast forward to the First Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States: “Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or
the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.”
Much
abuse and hypocrisy surrounds these simple statements in our current
culture. If you are two Muslim truck
drivers and refuse to drive a truck carrying alcohol because of “sincerely held
religious beliefs,” the Federal Equal Employment Commission will jump in with
both feet, with full force and fury and extract a $240,000 award from their
employer. However, if you’re a baker and
don’t want to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding because of “sincerely held
religious beliefs,” then you will find the government jumping all over you, tying
you up in court for years at an exorbitant cost and eventually fining you
$135,000! You are free to argue the
legal distinctions but the bottom line is the same.
Georgia
passed a state law to protect religious officials from having to perform
same-sex marriage ceremonies because of “sincerely held religious
beliefs.” It would also permit faith
based organizations to deny service or employment to those who violate their
“sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Disney immediately retaliated by promising never to do business in that
state again. So much for states’ rights,
the Constitution and the First Amendment!
That should have been a harbinger of things to come for North Carolina.
North
Carolina had the unmitigated gall to pass a law that requires a person to use
the same bathroom as their biological sex.
It’s simply science and biology.
If you have a penis, you use the men’s bathroom. If you have a vagina, you use the women’s
bathroom. Unfortunately, it’s hard to
put common sense into common practice in contemporary culture. PayPal immediately pulled the plug on a $3.6
million expansion into North Carolina.
Being sensitive to the needs of the “transgender community,” The PayPal
CEO said the new law “perpetuates discrimination.” He had nothing to say about the fact that
PayPal does business in twenty-five
countries where homosexuality is a crime!
He also did not elaborate on why he thought it was a good idea to allow
men into a bathroom with women and girls.
Lt. Governor of North Carolina did elaborate however: “If our action in keeping men out of women's bathrooms and showers protected
the life of just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted, then
it was worth it. North Carolina will never put a price tag on the value of our
children. They are precious and
priceless. If a corporation wanting to do business in North Carolina does not
see the worth of our children in the same light, then I wish them well as they
do business somewhere else."
Bryan Adams jumped on the celebrity bandwagon
and immediately canceled his concert in Mississippi where there is also a “religious
liberty” law. Apparently his conscience
has “evolved” since he never canceled his concerts in Egypt and Qatar where
homosexuals are arrested and imprisoned simply for being! Then again, he was only following Bruce
Springsteen who also had a fit of conscience and canceled his North Carolina
concert a few days earlier. Apparently,
the “Boss” has “sincerely held personal beliefs” against providing services in
a state that holds views contrary to his own.
Good thing he’s not a baker, a florist, or a photographer!
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