in Indiana: "Back to the Plantation"
By: Bryan
Fischer
Posted: Thursday,
April 2, 2015 10:21 AM
Rabid
gay activists flooded Gov. Pence’s Facebook page last weekend with vulgar
and obscene comments.
Update: The
revised language has now been released, and it's even worse than we thought. The
new language forces Christian bakers to bake cakes in violation of their faith
and conscience. Gov. Pence tried to fix something that wasn't broken, and he
broke it. The cure in this case is far worse than the non-existent disease.
Gov. Pence must veto this misbegotten piece of
legislation.
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There
is one and only one question that will matter when Indiana and its beleaguered
governor finish retooling its religious freedom law: will
the Christian baker be forced to bake the
cake?
That's it. Gov.
Pence must have an answer to that question, and it must be clear and crisp. He
didn't have an answer for George Stephanopoulos last Sunday, and that's part of
what ignited this firestorm.
Unless the
governor's answer to this question is a flat,No,
Indiana will absolutely refuse to punish any Christian baker who declines to
bake a same-sex wedding cake, then Indiana in reality will have
no religious
freedom at all. To paraphrase Martin Luther King, Jr., a denial of religious
liberty anywhere is a denial of religious liberty
everywhere.
Further, if a
man can be compelled by government
force to provide labor against his will and against his conscience, that
is both slavery and
tyranny.
Greg
Richards perceptively
suggested that the key constitutional answer to Indiana's crisis is
not even found in the First Amendment but in the
13th.
Here's how the
13th Amendment reads (emphasis
mine):
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to
their
jurisdiction."
Well, Indiana
is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, so involuntary servitude is
flatly forbidden anywhere in the state. Period. We fought a civil war to resolve
this issue, and yet pro-homosexual zealots want to take us back to the days of
the Confederacy and the days when disfavored minorities were forced to pick
cotton or else.
Wrote
Richards:
That
is the dividing line here - requiring the labor of the vendor to be provided
involuntarily. It doesn't make any difference if the customer is willing
to pay. Slaves were compensated with food and
housing.
It is the involuntary nature of the labor that is the point at
issue. If you walk into a bakery and want to buy one of the cakes on the
display rack “assuming they are for sale“ then go to it! But you cannot
require the baker to make a special cake for
you.
A Christian
baker cannot be forced against his will to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
That's involuntary
servitude.
A Christian
florist cannot be compelled against her will to prepare a floral arrangement for
a same-sex wedding. That's involuntary
servitude.
A Christian photographer cannot be compelled against her will and
conscience to shoot a same-sex wedding ceremony. That's
involuntary
servitude.
A Jewish baker cannot
be compelled against his will to bake a cake with Adolf Hitler's image on it
(such cakes exist, believe it or not).
A black owner
of a T-shirt company cannot be compelled against his conscience and will to
print shirts with KKK slogans.
And a Muslim
butcher cannot be compelled against his will to butcher a hog. Period.
Let's not be
under any illusions here about where the hate and discrimination are coming from
in this controversy.
Rabid gay (Sodomite) activists
flooded Gov. Pence's Facebook page last weekend with vulgar and obscene
comments. My Twitter feed for the last four days has been a nausea-inducing
sewer of venom, obscenity, hate and
bile.
An Indiana
high school coach tweeted out yesterday that she and her whole posse were going to burn a local
pizzeria to the ground. The pizzeria owner's crime? He won't cater gay weddings.
His restaurant is now closed for safety reasons. He and his entire family are
now quite literally living in fear for their lives. So where's the hate? It's not coming from the pro-family
community.
All this
illustrates a point I have often made: we must choose between homosexuality and
liberty because we cannot have
both.
Gov. Pence
displayed weakness when he held the signing of the religious liberty bill in
private. Weakness always invites aggression, and that's what Gov. Pence got. He
showed further weakness when he buckled under pressure and agreed
to retool the law to create a special carve-out for gays and
lesbians.
(The draft
language that is dribbling out of Gov. Pence's secret negotiations with
homosexual activists is even worse than we
thought.)
If when all is
said and done, Gov. Pence cannot say flatly, In Indiana, we will not compel any Christian, Jewish or Muslim business owner to
perform services against his religion or conscience, then religious
liberty will no longer exist in the Hoosier state, and both the First and 13th
Amendments will have been effectively
nullified.
Your move,
governor.
Wake-up,
Pastors! Wake-up, Christians!
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