Leftist pressure gay agenda campaign from Georgia to North Carolina
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Whatever happened to that "wall of separation" between
church and state the Left was championing for the last 60 years? Using
government as the battering ram, the Left has breached the wall and are
preparing to storm America's churches. And amazingly, they've been aided by
Republican governors who've become nothing more than puppets for Big Business
in the process.
Exhibit A is Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (R), who has proven
he's more interested in the money of Apple, Intel, and Disney than the morals
of Georgians. Earlier this week, Deal vetoed H.B. 757, which would have provided
the barest of religious liberty protections to churches and a sliver of
faith-based organizations that believe in natural marriage. In fact, the
language was so weak after House leaders watered it down that FRC had a
difficult time supporting it. After all, even President Obama says he believes
in freedom inside the four walls of the church. Apparently, a governor who was
elected with the help of evangelicals can't even support that and vetoed the
measure -- inviting the government to launch attacks on every congregation in
the state.
"This is a prime example of why Republicans across the
nation are concerned and upset," said local
Pastor Don Hattaway. "We vote for politicians according to what they say, and
then they when they get in office, they do the contrary... We simply want to
act out our faith. We don't want to harm anyone. We minister to people and we
feed the hungry, and we don't ask what lifestyle people are living. But we also
don't want people telling us to embrace a lifestyle that is clearly immoral and
denounced in Scripture." Unlike his northern neighbor, Governor Pat
McCrory (R-N.C.), Deal caved to Big Business and Hollywood and put their agendas
ahead of voters'. That may be easier in the short-term, but ask Indiana
Governor Mike Pence (R) where the road to political compromise leads. In
attempting to placate the Left, these leaders are alienated from their base --
and ultimately scorned by the CEOs and sports leagues they were so anxious to
impress.
Of course, the other big loser in all of this is Big Business.
After stunts like Indiana's, Arkansas' and Georgia's, the mask is finally
slipping on the not-so-free market. Once voters see that business is abandoning
their values, they'll abandon business. And here's the irony: corporate America
is only bullying states like Georgia because they themselves have been bullied
by LGBT activists! Now that they've been commandeered by the politically
correct crowd, their real foundation -- a longtime
alliance with social and fiscal conservatives -- is starting to
crumble.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, the governor is still fighting the
last gasps of the liberal misinformation campaign before it moves to its next
target. Although 334
businesses signed on to a letter thanking Governor McCrory and
the General Assembly for protecting their freedom and their safety, some in the
media are resorting to outright lies about what the controversy was even about.
"To much of corporate America," the Los Angeles Times claimed,
"the bill amounted to legalized discrimination against gay people by
allowing them to be denied certain services and protections."
Well, they're right about one thing: the debate was about
legalized discrimination -- against Christians,
who, like most rational Americans, don't think the government should be able to
dictate what they believe. Absolutely nothing in North Carolina's bill would
have given businesses the right to deny services to anyone. What it did deny
was the access of grown men to the showers and restrooms of young girls -- an
idea that 70 percent of the state thought was "unreasonable and unsafe"
(another 8 percent were unsure). As usual, the media only sees what it wants to
see. And religious liberty as a winning issue doesn't fit their narrative.
"North Carolina is consistently one of the top five states
in the nation for business and economic growth," the KeepNCSafe Coalition
pointed out. "Any businesses threatening to not do business in our great
state based on dishonest attacks by opponents of women's and girls' privacy and
safety are only hurting themselves... It would be a shame for any companies to
miss out on that simply because they believe men should be allowed into locked
rooms with men and women." To San
Francisco, New York, Washington State, the NBA, and
anyone else hoping to punish the state for upholding the First Amendment,
locals have a message: you'll only be hurting yourself.
