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Carnivore’s Cave: He is Risen! Alleluia!

Adventures In Keeping House: Clash Of The Titans, 1981; When The Raven Flies

Citadel Foundations: Democracy’s Inherent Idiocy

The Gods of the Copybook Headings: Young People Are Stupid; Things You Can’t Say in English

Socially Extinct: The global media rejoices that a woman was brought to the game so she could sort out the Germanwings disaster

Kristor: Hatred Enslaves

Reactionarythought: In the Footsteps of Zheng He

memoirandremains: I need to require more reading in my classes

Philosophies of a Disenchanted Scholar: Video: Norwegian immigration – blondes must dye their hair to avoid harassment

Blowhard, Esq.: Memories of a WWII Soldier

Wintery Knight: Indiana RFRA “fix” is a full repeal, religious liberty will be no defense; When speaking to non-Christians, do you use any of these Christianese terms?

Dalrock: Was it real?

Colin Liddell: Another Victory For Religious White People

Andy Nowicki: The Significance Of The Suffering God; “It Follows”: Monsters From The Id

 

Video: Muslim bakery refuses to make gay wedding cakes

Originally posted on Philosophies of a Disenchanted Scholar:

– and nothing has happened.

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Christian asked 13 gay bakeries to bake Christian marriage cake, refused by 13

Originally posted on Philosophies of a Disenchanted Scholar:

http://conservativebyte.com/2015/04/christian-man-asks-thirteen-gay-bakeries-to-bake-him-pro-traditional-marriage-cake-and-is-denied-service-by-all-of-them/

I would like to see more Gotcha scenarios like this.

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Christian-owned pizza business shuts down after death threats from gay activists

Originally posted on Wintery Knight:

Crystal O’Connor, victim of bullying by gay activists

I read a lot of articles on this, and Todd Starnes’ on Fox News was the most detailed.

He writes:

A small town, family-owned pizzeria has become the latest target of an angry mob of modern-day fascists — hell-bent on silencing anyone who opposes gay marriage.

Kevin O’Connor and his daughter Crystal own Memories Pizza in Walkerton, Ind. — just a hop, skip and a jump southwest of South Bend.

Mr. O’Connor and his family have been forced into hiding and had to temporarily shut down their store after they told a local television reporter that they would not cater a gay wedding.

“If a gay couple came in and wanted us to provide pizzas for their wedding, we would have to say no,” Crystal told ABC 57 on Tuesday.

Neither Crystal nor her father realized they were about to become the…

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It is easy for the rich to believe

Will S.:

Some things never change…

Originally posted on memoirandremains:

It is easy for the rich and happy to believe that they have divine approval. What better assurance could they have than the pleasure and power in which they stand? In these secure ones the nation felt itself not only prosperous but divinely favored. Since they are conscious of representing the country, interference with them and their pursuits would be interfering with the country’s welfare. To disturb their order is to disturb the social order. To criticize their religion is to prove oneself a heretic and a blasphemer. God is on the side of those in power (they think), and so to the security of financial and political position the leading people of Amos’ day added the comforting conviction that they were Jehovah’s chosen people—chosen to be thus superior and secure.

Amos, Prophet of a New Order,

Lindsay B. Longacre, 1921. Amos has never ceased to trouble me.

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Decent rhetorical questions for the ‘people should be free to marry whomever they want’ crowd, but of diminishing effectiveness, alas…

Prince LaQroix pointedly asks:

Alas, there are increasingly more progs in favour of polygamy and incest; so that retort only works on the largely apolitical yet reflexively liberal crowd, not on hardened ideologues such as the SJWs of social media.

*Update: Prince LaQroix asks another good question:

During sane times, that would silence the other party. Alas, we live in insane times…

 

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