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Archbishop rebukes US gvmt official’s claim that religious liberty is just ‘code’ for ‘homophobia’

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The head of the U.S. Bishops’ committee on religious freedom challenged recent charges of hypocrisy leveled by the chairman of a federal civil rights commission against religious Americans concerned their faith is under attack in society. Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore issued a  statement  calling accusations of bigotry against people of faith by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Martin Castro irresponsible and said the comments show deep disrespect for the basis for Castro’s own work on the Commission. “He makes the shocking suggestion that Catholic, evangelical, orthodox Jewish, Mormon, and Muslim communities are comparable to fringe segregationists from the civil rights era,” the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops ' Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty said. “These statements painting those who support religious freedom with the broad brush of bigotry are reckless and reveal a profound disregard for the religious found...

The motivation of Christians is hate not revelation

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The motivation of Christians is HATE not Biblical revelation says the US Commission on Civil Rights. This is the next creative form of attack on Christians. Before it was bigots, haters, etc and now it is pure hate without reference to any biblical prohibitions against homosexuality. Last week the U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a report that implies religious believers’ support of religious liberty is often motivated more by hate than by adherence to God’s revelation. The Background:  The  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights  is an independent, bipartisan agency established by Congress in 1957 whose duties include appraising federal laws and policies with respect to discrimination or denial of equal protection of the laws because of “race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin, or in the administration of justice” and to submit reports, findings, and recommendations to the President and Congress. The commission’s latest briefing ...

Bullies-R-US: Washington, NY ban state travel to Mississippi over religious liberty law

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Pro LGBT Andrew Cuomo, supports immorality but is not satisfied with that now demands everybody bows to LGBT agenda. Really Mr Bully? The fallout from Mississippi's new religious freedom bill protecting people of conscience from being forced to participate in same-sex ceremonies has turned into a battle of the states. Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed the " Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act " on Monday. "I am signing H.B. 1523 into law to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations, and private associations from discriminatory actions from state government or its political subdivisions," Gov. Bryant explained. Already, New York and Washington have banned certain law-abiding citizens from traveling to Mississippi in an effort to economically blackmail the state. Washington's Governor Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray have barred state and Seattle city e...

Mississippi’s gov. faces down the corporate bullies and leftist pressure groups

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On Tuesday, Gov. Phil Bryant of Mississippi signed the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act into law . To protect religious liberty in his state, he stood up against corporate bullies and leftist pressure groups. The Republican governor should be an inspiration to lawmakers everywhere. In the last few years, states and localities nationwide have prosecuted small businesses for declining involvement in gay marriage ceremonies. We’ve seen the government do some pretty terrible things, like Washington state   trying to bankrupt a 70-year-old florist , or Oregon fining a bakery $135,000 and then  placing a gag order on the owners  to silence them. We’ve even seen the most intolerant tendencies of the Left’s rank-and-file when  a pizza place in Indiana was threatened with violence  for even discussing the  possibility  of not participating in a gay wedding celebration. The message has been clear: It’s ...

Leftist pressure gay agenda campaign from Georgia to North Carolina

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English: Mike Pence, member of the United States House of Representatives. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 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 Presi...

LGBT Demonic went down to Georgia

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The devil has gone to Georgia again, but this time it was in the form of Big Business and cowardly politicians. In a  staggering announcement yesterday morning , the two-term governor of the Peach State has capitulated to big business and decided to give the government a blank check to punish Georgia’s men and women of faith. Days after a watered-down religious liberty bill sailed through both houses of the legislature, Governor Deal has decided that even the flimsiest of protections for churches are too much for Georgia’s Christians. Like Hollywood and Big Business, he thinks the state should be able to dictate what people believe -- and torment those who don’t conform. Sound familiar? It should. Any totalitarian regime operates by the same philosophy. And while the persecution takes different forms, the effect is still the same: faith-based oppression. According to Deal, a bill so weak that it wouldn’t even protect the nuns at Little Sisters of the Poor “doesn’t refl...

Corporate war on religious freedom and LGBT bullies

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Attorney Jane Robbins , Senior Fellow with the American Principles Project, commented on the economic threats to Georgia.  "Good people are trying to live their lives according to their faith.  Are we really going to subordinate religious freedom to the love of money?" Pastor Garland Hunt of the Fellowship of International Churches told LifeSiteNews, "There is no plausible reason for the governor to not have enthusiastically signed Georgia’s Religious Freedom Act.” Macon's Berean Baptist Church pastor Joe Bowker told LifeSiteNews of the legislation, "in no way is it discriminatory," because "disagreement is not discrimination." Robbins characterized America’s corporations as assisting bigotry.  “Anti-religious bigots, emboldened by corporate America and the political left, are now waging all-out war on religious freedom. This crass attempt to bully people of faith is un-American." Of the many major corporations threatening bo...

US elitists plotting to weaponize gay ‘marriage’ and stamp out dissent

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Five justices of the Supreme Court found an unwritten “fundamental right” to same-sex marriage hiding in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment —a secret knowledge so cleverly concealed in the nineteenth-century amendment that it took almost 150 years to find. Facebook and the White House were awash in rainbow flags proclaiming the arrival of “ marriage equality .” Just three weeks after  Obergefell , congressional Democrats filed House (H.R. 3185) and Senate (S. 1858) versions of the “ Equality Act ,” seeking to add “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the protected classes listed in the federal code. Americans are on an “equality” roll. What could go wrong? As it turns out, quite a bit. If enacted, the deceptively titled Equality Act would punish dissenters who disagree with same-sex marriage by using the enforcement tools of the amended Civil Rights Act of 1964 , but with even greater force and scope. The Equality Act seeks to weaponize  Ober...