"We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.” Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
April 2, 2014
By: Linda Case Gibbons
It’s not about getting respect, or equality, or having people recognize you for who you "really are” for some members of the gay community. Some, not all.
Nah, it isn’t about that. It’s about payback and it’s getting ugly.
It’s not enough for them to be heard, or to get rights. No, they want more, those who are unhappy, angry people.
So what pound of flesh do they want? The answer is the same one Barack Obama wants. It’s payback.
And that pound will never be enough.
They know they can use dirty tricks to silence anyone who doesn’t agree with them. They know they can get away with it because they have a role model who gets away with it.
The president of the United States. They’re just copycatting.
While he is considered an "Empty Suit” because of his deplorable performance both domestically and in foreign affairs, his behavior nonetheless signals to "them” it’s okay to use every dirty trick in the book. His behavior, the attorney general’s, the IRS, and Hillary Clinton.
And the mainstream media condones it all.
Unfortunately the dirty tricks don’t stop at anti-gay issues and that’s the problem. This is an equal opportunity attack which trickles down and permeates and destroys Constitutional rights. And before long, you turn around and all your rights are gone!
It becomes okay to dismiss freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms and attack any person who voices an opinion that the liberal left or the president doesn’t like.
It’s not enough to win whatever "they” have won, it’s gone further.
Suddenly it’s okay to bully, to force the disclosure of personal information about those whose opinions you don’t like, "outing” them about their beliefs so others can use the information to boycott their businesses, to cause them to lose their jobs and tarnish their reputations.
These people, like the president, have their "Enemies List,” and chuckle when they take another of their enemies down all the while insisting they are tolerant.
If it’s your religious beliefs you are honoring, they don’t care. And, like Hobby Lobby or The Little Sisters of the Poor, you’ll have to shell out money to sue the government to protect your religious freedom. Those are rights granted in the Bill of Rights, but that doesn’t matter to them.
If you believe in a cause and contribute money, if "they” don’t like your cause, "they” won’t let you do that. They will pry into your background, uncover your history as a donor, with the help of the courts, and you’ll be forced to quit your job to satisfy the ire of the gay community. Like former CEO Brendan Eich.
Eich was hounded out of his job at Mozilla this week. The gay community rejoiced. Mozilla apologized for not getting rid of him sooner. And they labeled him a hater.
Eich donated $1,000 eight years ago to support traditional marriage, California’s Prop 8. If you recall, that was the same time President Obama was opposed to gay marriage.
Now he’s not, but then he was.
Ironically "they” are not persecuting him. Just Eich. And if Eich were a Muslim CEO, they wouldn’t oppose him either.
There’s a word for this type of selective "tolerance,” the one where everyone has to think alike or else. It’s Communism. It’s Fascism. But whatever you call it, it ain’t American.
So maybe you didn’t get the memo. It was easy to miss because it went out late on some Friday or other just like all the other secret memos from the White House. This one was a joint memorandum from the White House and the Liberal Left. It told you what the rules will be from 2008 on.
The rules were put together by the National Organization of Women, Mozilla, Obama, the LGBT Rights organizations and any and all Leftists.
The basic message: "You are free to be you unless you disagree with me.” And if you disagree, as President Obama is wont to say, "there will be consequences.” For you, that is. Not them.
Under this administration, lies, divisiveness and hatred have run rampant, disregard for the law commonplace.
The lead attorney for the nation, the U.S. attorney general tells state attorneys general that they can ignore any laws they don’t agree with in contradiction of the oaths they have all taken to defend the law.
Presidential executive orders enact measures the American people reject.
Scandals within the administration get investigated by insiders in the administration and get a clean bill of health without "a smidgen” of wrongdoing discovered.
Donors and groups that oppose the Democratic Party’s agenda like the Koch brothers are called out as being un-American from the floor of the U.S. Senate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
And finally the judiciary uses its offices to make law against the will of the electorate, like the federal judge in Ohio who ruled that same-sex marriages must be recognized in Ohio even though that state’s electorate has voted not to recognize these unions.
And the mainstream press supports all of it.
When a law was passed in Arizona that gave business owners the right to refuse service to customers based on their beliefs, protecting their First Amendment rights of the business owners, CNN headlines read "Arizona Lawmakers Pass Controversial Anti-gay Bill.”
The law shouldn’t be needed at all. Businesses of all stripes have the Constitutional right to refuse service for a variety of reasons and don’t need to explain why. They don’t need a law like this. But the press took the opportunity to reflect on only one side of the controversy in a politically biased way.
That we don’t need, either.
Charles Krauthammer summed it up best about the Brendan Eich matter.
"No one likes sore losers, but now we have sore winners. The gay rights movement is winning, particularly with regard to same-sex marriage, with a speed and breadth that simply takes your breath away…yet unsatisfied with victory, they seem to want to stamp out and punish people for their previous views.”
And it leads to a generalized brand of intolerance as shown by Ebony editor Jamilah Lemieux.
Lemieux dissed the Republican deputy press secretary Raffi Williams when he tweeted support for Dr. Ben Carson’s new digital magazine, "Oh great, here comes a white dude telling me how to do this Black thing. Pass.”
Oops, the intelligent editor missed that Williams is black and Juan Williams’ son. She later apologized for not looking more closely at Williams’ photo, but wrote to him she still cared "about nothing you have to say.”
Maybe she should have looked up Raffi’s father. Juan Williams is the author of Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. Maybe.
Maybe she and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) should do some googling. Then Lemieux would learn about black history and Lee would discover the Constitution is not really 400 years old.
So in line with that, in as grown up a fashion as we can muster, I think that we should tell any and all bullies who use tactics geared to wipe out our Constitutional rights and divide Americans, one from another, "You’re not the boss of me!”
Hold the line, America.