“Outside those walls—in schools, hospitals and of course, in businesses—the “price of citizenship” is that you relinquish your faith and its life-guiding principles. First Amendment “free exercise” becomes as meaningless as “LGBT tolerance.” “And of course, this church-based “safety” is insecure as well. It’s only a matter of time until the fascist elements decide they’ve had enough of Pastor Brown’s sermons on grace and sin, and he is targeted as a test case, demanding he solemnize Bruce and Jason’s nuptials—or else.”
What happens when legal same sex “marriage” is combined with sexual orientation non-discrimination laws? It can become a one-two punch to knock out religious freedom.
In Ohio so far, this hasn’t happened. Activists are dreaming, however, that they can change the landscape in the Buckeye State.
Right now, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has legal freedom to present a strong pro-morality contract to its teachers. But the perpetually outraged, i.e., those who support homosexuality, are crying “foul.” And that includes some of the Cincinnati Catholic school teachers themselves. They are shocked, shocked that Catholics might care about moral behavior.
The contract stipulates that teachers aren’t to live in sin outside marriage, nor practice a homosexual lifestyle, nor have an abortion or artificial insemination. And no teachers are to show public support for any of these practices. Nevertheless, some think this violates “free speech,” with protests in Fountain Square and complaints voiced in the media.
Keep this picture of Cincinnati defiance in mind as we look at the greater game being played with marriage in Ohio. Homosexual groups are circulating a petition to bring another marriage amendment measure before voters, even though Ohioans already decided marriage is one man and one woman by a 62% majority in 2004.
But the sexual revolutionaries demand another vote, possibly this year but more likely in 2016. The petition language promises “religious freedom,” though. Certainly we can trust “LGBT” activists on this, right?
No, the language of the petition itself tells us where the homosexual activist groups hope they can take us. If, they dream, voters legalized same sex “marriage” and, in the same year, the Ohio General Assembly finally passed an Ohio “ENDA,” a sweeping homosexual rights bill that has never gotten through more than one chamber, the pesky conservatives could be silenced. That could happen as “religious exemption” language in both measures combined to make exemptions easy to dismiss.
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What happens when legal same sex “marriage” is combined with sexual orientation non-discrimination laws? It can become a one-two punch to knock out religious freedom.
In Ohio so far, this hasn’t happened. Activists are dreaming, however, that they can change the landscape in the Buckeye State.
Right now, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has legal freedom to present a strong pro-morality contract to its teachers. But the perpetually outraged, i.e., those who support homosexuality, are crying “foul.” And that includes some of the Cincinnati Catholic school teachers themselves. They are shocked, shocked that Catholics might care about moral behavior.
The contract stipulates that teachers aren’t to live in sin outside marriage, nor practice a homosexual lifestyle, nor have an abortion or artificial insemination. And no teachers are to show public support for any of these practices. Nevertheless, some think this violates “free speech,” with protests in Fountain Square and complaints voiced in the media.
Keep this picture of Cincinnati defiance in mind as we look at the greater game being played with marriage in Ohio. Homosexual groups are circulating a petition to bring another marriage amendment measure before voters, even though Ohioans already decided marriage is one man and one woman by a 62% majority in 2004.
But the sexual revolutionaries demand another vote, possibly this year but more likely in 2016. The petition language promises “religious freedom,” though. Certainly we can trust “LGBT” activists on this, right?
No, the language of the petition itself tells us where the homosexual activist groups hope they can take us. If, they dream, voters legalized same sex “marriage” and, in the same year, the Ohio General Assembly finally passed an Ohio “ENDA,” a sweeping homosexual rights bill that has never gotten through more than one chamber, the pesky conservatives could be silenced. That could happen as “religious exemption” language in both measures combined to make exemptions easy to dismiss.
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Outside those walls—in schools, hospitals and of course, in businesses—the “price of citizenship” is that you relinquish your faith and its life-guiding principles. First Amendment “free exercise” becomes as meaningless as “LGBT tolerance.”
And of course, this church-based “safety” is insecure as well. It’s only a matter of time until the fascist elements decide they’ve had enough of Pastor Brown’s sermons on grace and sin, and he is targeted as a test case, demanding he solemnize Bruce and Jason’s nuptials—or else.
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Outside those walls—in schools, hospitals and of course, in businesses—the “price of citizenship” is that you relinquish your faith and its life-guiding principles. First Amendment “free exercise” becomes as meaningless as “LGBT tolerance.”
And of course, this church-based “safety” is insecure as well. It’s only a matter of time until the fascist elements decide they’ve had enough of Pastor Brown’s sermons on grace and sin, and he is targeted as a test case, demanding he solemnize Bruce and Jason’s nuptials—or else.
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
Outside those walls—in schools, hospitals and of course, in businesses—the “price of citizenship” is that you relinquish your faith and its life-guiding principles. First Amendment “free exercise” becomes as meaningless as “LGBT tolerance.”
And of course, this church-based “safety” is insecure as well. It’s only a matter of time until the fascist elements decide they’ve had enough of Pastor Brown’s sermons on grace and sin, and he is targeted as a test case, demanding he solemnize Bruce and Jason’s nuptials—or else.
Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/04/30/will-churches-become-hotel-california/#APqMPqBdbi8QXQcX.99
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