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Nov 1, 2015 09:41:30   #
no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
 
Supreme Court justices 2015

So the Supreme Court has established “same-sex marriage,” and that will quiet the LGBT crowd, because, after all, they got what they wanted, right?

Not even close.

How about protections for LGBT people in jobs, jury duty, credit applications, housing, facilities that provide exhibitions, facilities that provide recreation, facilities that provide exercise, facilities that provide amusement and even facilities that provide “gatherings”?

Already, there’s a bill in Congress to do all those things and much more.

It even would gut the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act so LGBT-based discrimination complaints could be brought against churches that follow the Bible, which teaches homosexual behavior is a sin.

The “Equality Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “to include sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”

It would unilaterally change public school desegregation standards “to provide for the assignment of students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Churches that hold to biblical beliefs about sexuality would not be immune, according to Paul Kengor, whose book “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage” addresses the problem.

He shows how, beginning with Karl Marx and continuing with Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and assorted ’60s radicals, formerly fringe concepts have been accepted. And they’re being used by leftists to attack traditional marriage.

“I think we’re already seeing what’s next from the ‘LGBT’ and same-sex-marriage movement – that is, an aggressive and uncompromising push for forced acceptance, forced compliance, and forced acquiescence,” he said. “For these people, ‘tolerance’ doesn’t actually mean ‘tolerance,’ just as ‘diversity’ doesn’t actually mean ‘diversity.’ What they want is a very selective tolerance and very selective diversity, which, of course, isn’t actually real tolerance or real diversity.

Kengor said they support what Marcuse called “repressive tolerance.”

“They are going to coerce those who disagree with their movement and their agenda, and that will include an aggressive attempt to force religious believers into full compliance with their movement and their agenda,” he said.

“For that, they will enlist the long arm of the state, and they will seek to do so with liberal politicians as their handmaidens. The force will take the form of fines, pickets, boycotts, demonization and, in some cases, incarceration,” said Kengor

In Kentucky, a county clerk, Kim Davis, already was put in jail for nearly a week for refusing an order from U.S. District Judge David Bunning to violate her faith and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Activists obtained their marriage licenses from her deputies, under a judge’s order, while she was in jail, and now they’re taking her to court again demanding she reissue the licenses with her name on them.

Agenda

At a recent event in Chicago hosted by the “gay”-rights group Human Rights Campaign, LGBT leaders discussed their agenda, according to a report from Windy City Media Group.

One aim is passing the Equality Act.

HRC President Chad Griffing predicted it would be “the biggest legislative battle in the history of our movement.”

And he claimed the movement has the strength “to decide elections,” with its “10 million” voters.

He also charged that Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., was attacking families with his plan for the First Amendment Defense Act, which would protect people and groups from unwarranted attacks and lawsuits when their actions are based on their religious beliefs about marriage.

The Equality Act, sponsored by Rep. David, Cicilline, D-R.I., has been referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and there’s no immediate time frame for acting.

It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests.

Violators would answer to the U.S. Department of Justice, which would act if it receives a complaint from someone who claims to suffer discrimination.

Further, it would require employers to “recognize individuals in accordance with their gender identity if sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.”

For example, a female could monitor a boys locker room if she identifies as a male.

Michael Brown, author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said the ultimate objective will be to “uproot” all opposition to LGBT activism.

“That means that churches will become targets, putting Christian denominations, organizations, schools and individuals under increasing pressure to affirm homosexuality or else lose their tax exemption or more,” he said. “It means an attack on all efforts to help those with unwanted homosexual attractions or gender identity issues, with a nationwide attack to ban any treatments for those struggling. It means the complete normalization of transgender identity, imposing this on the rest of society.”

Brown said tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality will not be enough.

“There must be celebration and support, and in the business world, failure to be on the front lines of promoting the LGBT cause will have serious negative consequences,” he said. “And in the schools, there must be complete uniformity in celebrating and promoting LGBT issues.”

His book cites the opposition that already have developed for not cheering the same-sex agenda.

The principles needed to outlast the progressive revolution, he said, are: Never compromise your convictions, take the high moral ground, cherish sexual purity, defend natural marriage, celebrate gender distinctions, propagate the truth, turn to God and refuse to throw in the towel.

He said that while it looks like American society never will be the same, the homosexual activists have not written the end of the story.

He believes Americans will start rejecting the bullying tactics against freedoms of religion, speech and conscience.

The progressive ThinkProgress writes that the proposed law would add protections for LGBT people in employment, housing, public accommodations (including transgender people’s access to the sex-segregated facility that “matches their gender identity”), public education, federal funding, credit, juries and more.

The website says “religious exemptions would be maintained,” but it acknowledges RFRA “cannot be invoked in an attempt to justify discrimination that would otherwise be covered.”

More than a dozen senators and nearly 100 House members, all Democrats, have signed on as co-sponsors.

The Daily Signal was blunt in its report on the bill, noting it “does not protect equality before the law, but unnecessarily and unjustly violates freedom by creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Such provisions, the commentary said, “threaten small-business owners with liability for alleged ‘discrimination’ based not on objective traits, but on subjective and unverifiable identities.”

“They expand state interference in labor markets, potentially discouraging job creation. They endanger religious liberty and freedom of speech. And they mandate employment policies that, with regard to many workplace conditions, violate common sense.”

Author David Kupelian, in his just-released “The Snapping of the American Mind,” wrote, “Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would finally wind down.

“But then, suddenly the focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ issue trumpeting the headline, ‘America’s next civil rights frontier,’ and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender discrimination ‘the civil right issue of our time.’

“And then – brace yourself – there were reports of three-year-old children being required to sign a contract promising they will not use ‘transphobic language’ in nursery school!”

His warning: “The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you haven’t realized, is that it has the full support of the Far Left. Not because the Left loves homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals for themselves, but because finally the Left has found its spear tip, with which – as it has dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize, demonize, and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/equality-act-creates-lgbt-rights-everywhere/#zrRmVxvtOmoED2tr.99

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Nov 1, 2015 11:31:00   #
Rufus Loc: Deep South
 
no propaganda please wrote:
Supreme Court justices 2015

So the Supreme Court has established “same-sex marriage,” and that will quiet the LGBT crowd, because, after all, they got what they wanted, right?

Not even close.

How about protections for LGBT people in jobs, jury duty, credit applications, housing, facilities that provide exhibitions, facilities that provide recreation, facilities that provide exercise, facilities that provide amusement and even facilities that provide “gatherings”?

Already, there’s a bill in Congress to do all those things and much more.

It even would gut the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act so LGBT-based discrimination complaints could be brought against churches that follow the Bible, which teaches homosexual behavior is a sin.

The “Equality Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “to include sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”

It would unilaterally change public school desegregation standards “to provide for the assignment of students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Churches that hold to biblical beliefs about sexuality would not be immune, according to Paul Kengor, whose book “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage” addresses the problem.

He shows how, beginning with Karl Marx and continuing with Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and assorted ’60s radicals, formerly fringe concepts have been accepted. And they’re being used by leftists to attack traditional marriage.

“I think we’re already seeing what’s next from the ‘LGBT’ and same-sex-marriage movement – that is, an aggressive and uncompromising push for forced acceptance, forced compliance, and forced acquiescence,” he said. “For these people, ‘tolerance’ doesn’t actually mean ‘tolerance,’ just as ‘diversity’ doesn’t actually mean ‘diversity.’ What they want is a very selective tolerance and very selective diversity, which, of course, isn’t actually real tolerance or real diversity.

Kengor said they support what Marcuse called “repressive tolerance.”

“They are going to coerce those who disagree with their movement and their agenda, and that will include an aggressive attempt to force religious believers into full compliance with their movement and their agenda,” he said.

“For that, they will enlist the long arm of the state, and they will seek to do so with liberal politicians as their handmaidens. The force will take the form of fines, pickets, boycotts, demonization and, in some cases, incarceration,” said Kengor

In Kentucky, a county clerk, Kim Davis, already was put in jail for nearly a week for refusing an order from U.S. District Judge David Bunning to violate her faith and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Activists obtained their marriage licenses from her deputies, under a judge’s order, while she was in jail, and now they’re taking her to court again demanding she reissue the licenses with her name on them.

Agenda

At a recent event in Chicago hosted by the “gay”-rights group Human Rights Campaign, LGBT leaders discussed their agenda, according to a report from Windy City Media Group.

One aim is passing the Equality Act.

HRC President Chad Griffing predicted it would be “the biggest legislative battle in the history of our movement.”

And he claimed the movement has the strength “to decide elections,” with its “10 million” voters.

He also charged that Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., was attacking families with his plan for the First Amendment Defense Act, which would protect people and groups from unwarranted attacks and lawsuits when their actions are based on their religious beliefs about marriage.

The Equality Act, sponsored by Rep. David, Cicilline, D-R.I., has been referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and there’s no immediate time frame for acting.

It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests.

Violators would answer to the U.S. Department of Justice, which would act if it receives a complaint from someone who claims to suffer discrimination.

Further, it would require employers to “recognize individuals in accordance with their gender identity if sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.”

For example, a female could monitor a boys locker room if she identifies as a male.

Michael Brown, author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said the ultimate objective will be to “uproot” all opposition to LGBT activism.

“That means that churches will become targets, putting Christian denominations, organizations, schools and individuals under increasing pressure to affirm homosexuality or else lose their tax exemption or more,” he said. “It means an attack on all efforts to help those with unwanted homosexual attractions or gender identity issues, with a nationwide attack to ban any treatments for those struggling. It means the complete normalization of transgender identity, imposing this on the rest of society.”

Brown said tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality will not be enough.

“There must be celebration and support, and in the business world, failure to be on the front lines of promoting the LGBT cause will have serious negative consequences,” he said. “And in the schools, there must be complete uniformity in celebrating and promoting LGBT issues.”

His book cites the opposition that already have developed for not cheering the same-sex agenda.

The principles needed to outlast the progressive revolution, he said, are: Never compromise your convictions, take the high moral ground, cherish sexual purity, defend natural marriage, celebrate gender distinctions, propagate the truth, turn to God and refuse to throw in the towel.

He said that while it looks like American society never will be the same, the homosexual activists have not written the end of the story.

He believes Americans will start rejecting the bullying tactics against freedoms of religion, speech and conscience.

The progressive ThinkProgress writes that the proposed law would add protections for LGBT people in employment, housing, public accommodations (including transgender people’s access to the sex-segregated facility that “matches their gender identity”), public education, federal funding, credit, juries and more.

The website says “religious exemptions would be maintained,” but it acknowledges RFRA “cannot be invoked in an attempt to justify discrimination that would otherwise be covered.”

More than a dozen senators and nearly 100 House members, all Democrats, have signed on as co-sponsors.

The Daily Signal was blunt in its report on the bill, noting it “does not protect equality before the law, but unnecessarily and unjustly violates freedom by creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Such provisions, the commentary said, “threaten small-business owners with liability for alleged ‘discrimination’ based not on objective traits, but on subjective and unverifiable identities.”

“They expand state interference in labor markets, potentially discouraging job creation. They endanger religious liberty and freedom of speech. And they mandate employment policies that, with regard to many workplace conditions, violate common sense.”

Author David Kupelian, in his just-released “The Snapping of the American Mind,” wrote, “Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would finally wind down.

“But then, suddenly the focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ issue trumpeting the headline, ‘America’s next civil rights frontier,’ and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender discrimination ‘the civil right issue of our time.’

“And then – brace yourself – there were reports of three-year-old children being required to sign a contract promising they will not use ‘transphobic language’ in nursery school!”

His warning: “The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you haven’t realized, is that it has the full support of the Far Left. Not because the Left loves homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals for themselves, but because finally the Left has found its spear tip, with which – as it has dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize, demonize, and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/equality-act-creates-lgbt-rights-everywhere/#zrRmVxvtOmoED2tr.99
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The last part in blue says it all doesn't it? It is a shame so many are deceived and even worse for those who hate The Lord. Still a little hard to believe much of this has happened in such a short time during our lifetime.

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Nov 3, 2015 02:44:01   #
fiatlux
 
no propaganda please wrote:
Supreme Court justices 2015

So the Supreme Court has established “same-sex marriage,” and that will quiet the LGBT crowd, because, after all, they got what they wanted, right?

Not even close.

How about protections for LGBT people in jobs, jury duty, credit applications, housing, facilities that provide exhibitions, facilities that provide recreation, facilities that provide exercise, facilities that provide amusement and even facilities that provide “gatherings”?

Already, there’s a bill in Congress to do all those things and much more.

It even would gut the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act so LGBT-based discrimination complaints could be brought against churches that follow the Bible, which teaches homosexual behavior is a sin.

The “Equality Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “to include sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”

It would unilaterally change public school desegregation standards “to provide for the assignment of students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Churches that hold to biblical beliefs about sexuality would not be immune, according to Paul Kengor, whose book “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage” addresses the problem.

He shows how, beginning with Karl Marx and continuing with Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and assorted ’60s radicals, formerly fringe concepts have been accepted. And they’re being used by leftists to attack traditional marriage.

“I think we’re already seeing what’s next from the ‘LGBT’ and same-sex-marriage movement – that is, an aggressive and uncompromising push for forced acceptance, forced compliance, and forced acquiescence,” he said. “For these people, ‘tolerance’ doesn’t actually mean ‘tolerance,’ just as ‘diversity’ doesn’t actually mean ‘diversity.’ What they want is a very selective tolerance and very selective diversity, which, of course, isn’t actually real tolerance or real diversity.

Kengor said they support what Marcuse called “repressive tolerance.”

“They are going to coerce those who disagree with their movement and their agenda, and that will include an aggressive attempt to force religious believers into full compliance with their movement and their agenda,” he said.

“For that, they will enlist the long arm of the state, and they will seek to do so with liberal politicians as their handmaidens. The force will take the form of fines, pickets, boycotts, demonization and, in some cases, incarceration,” said Kengor

In Kentucky, a county clerk, Kim Davis, already was put in jail for nearly a week for refusing an order from U.S. District Judge David Bunning to violate her faith and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Activists obtained their marriage licenses from her deputies, under a judge’s order, while she was in jail, and now they’re taking her to court again demanding she reissue the licenses with her name on them.

Agenda

At a recent event in Chicago hosted by the “gay”-rights group Human Rights Campaign, LGBT leaders discussed their agenda, according to a report from Windy City Media Group.

One aim is passing the Equality Act.

HRC President Chad Griffing predicted it would be “the biggest legislative battle in the history of our movement.”

And he claimed the movement has the strength “to decide elections,” with its “10 million” voters.

He also charged that Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., was attacking families with his plan for the First Amendment Defense Act, which would protect people and groups from unwarranted attacks and lawsuits when their actions are based on their religious beliefs about marriage.

The Equality Act, sponsored by Rep. David, Cicilline, D-R.I., has been referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and there’s no immediate time frame for acting.

It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests.

Violators would answer to the U.S. Department of Justice, which would act if it receives a complaint from someone who claims to suffer discrimination.

Further, it would require employers to “recognize individuals in accordance with their gender identity if sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.”

For example, a female could monitor a boys locker room if she identifies as a male.

Michael Brown, author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said the ultimate objective will be to “uproot” all opposition to LGBT activism.

“That means that churches will become targets, putting Christian denominations, organizations, schools and individuals under increasing pressure to affirm homosexuality or else lose their tax exemption or more,” he said. “It means an attack on all efforts to help those with unwanted homosexual attractions or gender identity issues, with a nationwide attack to ban any treatments for those struggling. It means the complete normalization of transgender identity, imposing this on the rest of society.”

Brown said tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality will not be enough.

“There must be celebration and support, and in the business world, failure to be on the front lines of promoting the LGBT cause will have serious negative consequences,” he said. “And in the schools, there must be complete uniformity in celebrating and promoting LGBT issues.”

His book cites the opposition that already have developed for not cheering the same-sex agenda.

The principles needed to outlast the progressive revolution, he said, are: Never compromise your convictions, take the high moral ground, cherish sexual purity, defend natural marriage, celebrate gender distinctions, propagate the truth, turn to God and refuse to throw in the towel.

He said that while it looks like American society never will be the same, the homosexual activists have not written the end of the story.

He believes Americans will start rejecting the bullying tactics against freedoms of religion, speech and conscience.

The progressive ThinkProgress writes that the proposed law would add protections for LGBT people in employment, housing, public accommodations (including transgender people’s access to the sex-segregated facility that “matches their gender identity”), public education, federal funding, credit, juries and more.

The website says “religious exemptions would be maintained,” but it acknowledges RFRA “cannot be invoked in an attempt to justify discrimination that would otherwise be covered.”

More than a dozen senators and nearly 100 House members, all Democrats, have signed on as co-sponsors.

The Daily Signal was blunt in its report on the bill, noting it “does not protect equality before the law, but unnecessarily and unjustly violates freedom by creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Such provisions, the commentary said, “threaten small-business owners with liability for alleged ‘discrimination’ based not on objective traits, but on subjective and unverifiable identities.”

“They expand state interference in labor markets, potentially discouraging job creation. They endanger religious liberty and freedom of speech. And they mandate employment policies that, with regard to many workplace conditions, violate common sense.”

Author David Kupelian, in his just-released “The Snapping of the American Mind,” wrote, “Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would finally wind down.

“But then, suddenly the focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ issue trumpeting the headline, ‘America’s next civil rights frontier,’ and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender discrimination ‘the civil right issue of our time.’

“And then – brace yourself – there were reports of three-year-old children being required to sign a contract promising they will not use ‘transphobic language’ in nursery school!”

His warning: “The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you haven’t realized, is that it has the full support of the Far Left. Not because the Left loves homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals for themselves, but because finally the Left has found its spear tip, with which – as it has dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize, demonize, and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/equality-act-creates-lgbt-rights-everywhere/#zrRmVxvtOmoED2tr.99
Supreme Court justices 2015 br br So the Supreme ... (show quote)


I agree vigorously and the same in disagreement. But first a question. What does this mean: "It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests"? Is that how it is written in the Freedom Restoration Act?

It seems too many Christians are confusing being hidden in Christ with being hidden in the Constitution. Neither "religious freedom" nor unalienable rights are in the Bible. The greatest period of Christian growth came under persecution and intolerance by the state. A Christian is not to be concerned in the least about their rights. Our liberty and justice is in Christ, not anywhere else. No soldiers died for it; Jesus alone died for it. It is not won in battles or secured in legislation; it is a free gift from God.

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Nov 14, 2015 06:23:53   #
iFrank Loc: San Antonio
 
fiatlux wrote:
I agree vigorously and the same in disagreement. But first a question. What does this mean: "It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests"? Is that how it is written in the Freedom Restoration Act?

It seems too many Christians are confusing being hidden in Christ with being hidden in the Constitution. Neither "religious freedom" nor unalienable rights are in the Bible. The greatest period of Christian growth came under persecution and intolerance by the state. A Christian is not to be concerned in the least about their rights. Our liberty and justice is in Christ, not anywhere else. No soldiers died for it; Jesus alone died for it. It is not won in battles or secured in legislation; it is a free gift from God.
I agree vigorously and the same in disagreement. B... (show quote)


So who keeps on getting killed a horrible death in the abortion mills, this is the stupid "progressive left" that lets this happen, any person who votes for the
"Laying in wait" for the appointment to kill God children is guilty according to God law, and they have no forgiveness here in the flesh. God instructions are clear, going against God are you. I don't wish you luck.

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Nov 14, 2015 13:48:37   #
Rufus Loc: Deep South
 
iFrank wrote:
So who keeps on getting killed a horrible death in the abortion mills, this is the stupid "progressive left" that lets this happen, any person who votes for the
"Laying in wait" for the appointment to kill God children is guilty according to God law, and they have no forgiveness here in the flesh. God instructions are clear, going against God are you. I don't wish you luck.


:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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Nov 16, 2015 00:54:30   #
fiatlux
 
no propaganda please wrote:
Supreme Court justices 2015

So the Supreme Court has established “same-sex marriage,” and that will quiet the LGBT crowd, because, after all, they got what they wanted, right?

Not even close.

How about protections for LGBT people in jobs, jury duty, credit applications, housing, facilities that provide exhibitions, facilities that provide recreation, facilities that provide exercise, facilities that provide amusement and even facilities that provide “gatherings”?

Already, there’s a bill in Congress to do all those things and much more.

It even would gut the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act so LGBT-based discrimination complaints could be brought against churches that follow the Bible, which teaches homosexual behavior is a sin.

The “Equality Act” would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “to include sex, sexual orientation and gender identity among the prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodation.”

It would unilaterally change public school desegregation standards “to provide for the assignment of students without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Churches that hold to biblical beliefs about sexuality would not be immune, according to Paul Kengor, whose book “Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage” addresses the problem.

He shows how, beginning with Karl Marx and continuing with Margaret Sanger, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse and assorted ’60s radicals, formerly fringe concepts have been accepted. And they’re being used by leftists to attack traditional marriage.

“I think we’re already seeing what’s next from the ‘LGBT’ and same-sex-marriage movement – that is, an aggressive and uncompromising push for forced acceptance, forced compliance, and forced acquiescence,” he said. “For these people, ‘tolerance’ doesn’t actually mean ‘tolerance,’ just as ‘diversity’ doesn’t actually mean ‘diversity.’ What they want is a very selective tolerance and very selective diversity, which, of course, isn’t actually real tolerance or real diversity.

Kengor said they support what Marcuse called “repressive tolerance.”

“They are going to coerce those who disagree with their movement and their agenda, and that will include an aggressive attempt to force religious believers into full compliance with their movement and their agenda,” he said.

“For that, they will enlist the long arm of the state, and they will seek to do so with liberal politicians as their handmaidens. The force will take the form of fines, pickets, boycotts, demonization and, in some cases, incarceration,” said Kengor

In Kentucky, a county clerk, Kim Davis, already was put in jail for nearly a week for refusing an order from U.S. District Judge David Bunning to violate her faith and issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Activists obtained their marriage licenses from her deputies, under a judge’s order, while she was in jail, and now they’re taking her to court again demanding she reissue the licenses with her name on them.

Agenda

At a recent event in Chicago hosted by the “gay”-rights group Human Rights Campaign, LGBT leaders discussed their agenda, according to a report from Windy City Media Group.

One aim is passing the Equality Act.

HRC President Chad Griffing predicted it would be “the biggest legislative battle in the history of our movement.”

And he claimed the movement has the strength “to decide elections,” with its “10 million” voters.

He also charged that Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., was attacking families with his plan for the First Amendment Defense Act, which would protect people and groups from unwarranted attacks and lawsuits when their actions are based on their religious beliefs about marriage.

The Equality Act, sponsored by Rep. David, Cicilline, D-R.I., has been referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, and there’s no immediate time frame for acting.

It guts the protections written into the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, declaring that beliefs cannot provide a claim, defense or basis against the progressive agenda of the LGBT special interests.

Violators would answer to the U.S. Department of Justice, which would act if it receives a complaint from someone who claims to suffer discrimination.

Further, it would require employers to “recognize individuals in accordance with their gender identity if sex is a bona fide occupational qualification.”

For example, a female could monitor a boys locker room if she identifies as a male.

Michael Brown, author of “Outlasting the Gay Revolution,” said the ultimate objective will be to “uproot” all opposition to LGBT activism.

“That means that churches will become targets, putting Christian denominations, organizations, schools and individuals under increasing pressure to affirm homosexuality or else lose their tax exemption or more,” he said. “It means an attack on all efforts to help those with unwanted homosexual attractions or gender identity issues, with a nationwide attack to ban any treatments for those struggling. It means the complete normalization of transgender identity, imposing this on the rest of society.”

Brown said tolerance and acceptance of homosexuality will not be enough.

“There must be celebration and support, and in the business world, failure to be on the front lines of promoting the LGBT cause will have serious negative consequences,” he said. “And in the schools, there must be complete uniformity in celebrating and promoting LGBT issues.”

His book cites the opposition that already have developed for not cheering the same-sex agenda.

The principles needed to outlast the progressive revolution, he said, are: Never compromise your convictions, take the high moral ground, cherish sexual purity, defend natural marriage, celebrate gender distinctions, propagate the truth, turn to God and refuse to throw in the towel.

He said that while it looks like American society never will be the same, the homosexual activists have not written the end of the story.

He believes Americans will start rejecting the bullying tactics against freedoms of religion, speech and conscience.

The progressive ThinkProgress writes that the proposed law would add protections for LGBT people in employment, housing, public accommodations (including transgender people’s access to the sex-segregated facility that “matches their gender identity”), public education, federal funding, credit, juries and more.

The website says “religious exemptions would be maintained,” but it acknowledges RFRA “cannot be invoked in an attempt to justify discrimination that would otherwise be covered.”

More than a dozen senators and nearly 100 House members, all Democrats, have signed on as co-sponsors.

The Daily Signal was blunt in its report on the bill, noting it “does not protect equality before the law, but unnecessarily and unjustly violates freedom by creating special privileges based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”

Such provisions, the commentary said, “threaten small-business owners with liability for alleged ‘discrimination’ based not on objective traits, but on subjective and unverifiable identities.”

“They expand state interference in labor markets, potentially discouraging job creation. They endanger religious liberty and freedom of speech. And they mandate employment policies that, with regard to many workplace conditions, violate common sense.”

Author David Kupelian, in his just-released “The Snapping of the American Mind,” wrote, “Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would finally wind down.

“But then, suddenly the focus shifted to ‘transgender rights,’ with Time magazine’s ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’ issue trumpeting the headline, ‘America’s next civil rights frontier,’ and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender discrimination ‘the civil right issue of our time.’

“And then – brace yourself – there were reports of three-year-old children being required to sign a contract promising they will not use ‘transphobic language’ in nursery school!”

His warning: “The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you haven’t realized, is that it has the full support of the Far Left. Not because the Left loves homosexuals, bisexuals, and transsexuals for themselves, but because finally the Left has found its spear tip, with which – as it has dreamed of doing for decades – it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize, demonize, and criminalize its greatest enemy: the Christian religion.”

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Everything you wrote is true and important...if we were not "citizens of heaven." As we are "citizens of heaven," there is no point to what you wrote. Take it up as a citizen of America, all that you wrote goes against the Constitution. Equality for all is America's secular principle.

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Nov 16, 2015 04:54:23   #
iFrank Loc: San Antonio
 
fiatlux wrote:
Everything you wrote is true and important...if we were not "citizens of heaven." As we are "citizens of heaven," there is no point to what you wrote. Take it up as a citizen of America, all that you wrote goes against the Constitution. Equality for all is America's secular principle.


Matt24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 1 Corinthians 10:12 ..."wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls". Becareful of your salvation.

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Nov 16, 2015 10:08:54   #
Rufus Loc: Deep South
 
iFrank wrote:
Matt24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 1 Corinthians 10:12 ..."wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls". Becareful of your salvation.


Amen. I believe there is a part of flatlux that desires to learn the Truth. many on here are willing to help and I hope and pray flatlux can be open minded and willing to truly pray for the Holy Spirit to open her eyes, her ears, her heart and her mind.

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Nov 16, 2015 10:18:59   #
iFrank Loc: San Antonio
 
Rufus wrote:
Amen. I believe there is a part of flatlux that desires to learn the Truth. many on here are willing to help and I hope and pray flatlux can be open minded and willing to truly pray for the Holy Spirit to open her eyes, her ears, her heart and her mind.


I've read a recent post of her's, and it seem that she is resisting / maybe even quenching the Holy Spirit on the Truth of God. Most posters were questioning her views on the basic outlook pertaining to being inline with mainstream American values. Ain't that a shame. Thanks for your feedback Rufus.

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Nov 16, 2015 10:30:02   #
Rufus Loc: Deep South
 
iFrank wrote:
I've read a recent post of her's, and it seem that she is resisting / maybe even quenching the Holy Spirit on the Truth of God. Most posters were questioning her views on the basic outlook pertaining to being inline with mainstream American values. Ain't that a shame. Thanks for your feedback Rufus.

Yes, at times she claims to be a Christian. But she is forever finding fault with God and Jesus. It is almost as laughable as Obama being a Christian, when everything he does is pro Muslim, anti-Christian and anti-Jew.

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Nov 16, 2015 10:50:09   #
no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
 
fiatlux wrote:
Everything you wrote is true and important...if we were not "citizens of heaven." As we are "citizens of heaven," there is no point to what you wrote. Take it up as a citizen of America, all that you wrote goes against the Constitution. Equality for all is America's secular principle.


It is not against the constitution which does not require equal rights for all behaviors, just for all people as human beings. The constitution does not allow human sacrifices because your beliefs demand them, nor permit beating your children into a bloody mess because your god says to do it. It does not even permit a marriage of one man and ten women, which is why the Mormons have banned the behavior. Homosexual behavior is a behavior not a state of being, and believing you are the opposite sex from your genitals and DNA is a mental illness just as believing you are a wolf is a mental illness. People who believe they are wolves, chevys, would be better off without their genitals, or without their legs, are mentally ill, they desperately need help, they do not need to be glorified and celebrated in their illness. Pray for them to get the help they need, Do not validate their mental illness and pretend it is not an illness. Or would you also celebrate a severe infection rather than provide antibiotics?

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Nov 17, 2015 22:31:58   #
fiatlux
 
iFrank wrote:
So who keeps on getting killed a horrible death in the abortion mills, this is the stupid "progressive left" that lets this happen, any person who votes for the
"Laying in wait" for the appointment to kill God children is guilty according to God law, and they have no forgiveness here in the flesh. God instructions are clear, going against God are you. I don't wish you luck.


Huh? Want to re-write that so it is understandable.

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Nov 17, 2015 22:33:38   #
fiatlux
 
iFrank wrote:
Matt24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 1 Corinthians 10:12 ..."wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls". Becareful of your salvation.


Lol...

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Nov 17, 2015 22:38:13   #
fiatlux
 
Rufus wrote:
Amen. I believe there is a part of flatlux that desires to learn the Truth. many on here are willing to help and I hope and pray flatlux can be open minded and willing to truly pray for the Holy Spirit to open her eyes, her ears, her heart and her mind.


That is my prayer for you and others. Desire truth above all beliefs, be relentlessly open to the guidance of spirit and grace. Beliefs are silly things mostly, an awkward introduction to God and truth. "Be still, and KNOW that I am God." No need whatsoever for beliefs!

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Nov 17, 2015 22:52:56   #
iFrank Loc: San Antonio
 
fiatlux wrote:
Lol...


I'll answer you but you're starting to be a lost cause. I'll start with the babies that are getting killed indirectly by democrats. Because they approve across the board abortions. Laying in wait is in the Bible, "thou shall not kill", God say that no forgiveness is given in the flesh, to send those killer to Him. I don't think you're interested in Gods word by your prior post here and there.

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