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Indiana “Cowardly” Republican Governor Backs
Down, Christians Lose, Gay Activists Win
By Julio Severo
Facing
widespread pressure and boycotts, including from big businesses such as Apple
and Wal-Mart, and facing the threat of big stores and factories leaving Indiana,
its Republican governor, Mike Pence, rolled back his new religious freedom law.
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Indiana
Republican Governor Mike Pence
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Pence has
been accused by pro-family leaders of gutting the religious freedom law.
Paraphrasing the Guardian, which called Pence a “cowardly,” we could say, “So
if you’re going to be against the onslaught of the gay agenda, why be a coward
about it? You’d have to ask Mike Pence.”
The law
changed by Pence went too far in the opposite direction and is now the first
Indiana state law that explicitly mentions sexual orientation and gender
identity — terms that are war flag of the homosexual movement. The change has
been celebrated even by homosexual activists in Brazil, whose gay parades are
the largest in the world.
The governors
of New York and Connecticut, who had imposed bans on state officials traveling
to Indiana as a symbol of their opposition to the religious freedom law, lifted
those bans on Saturday in response to the change in the law.
The Arkansas
Republican governor, who was to pass a similar religious freedom law, retreated
too.
Amid the
conservative defeat in Indiana, the Republican governors of Michigan and North
Dakota also want to pass laws to protect homosexuality.
Homosexual
activists are taking advantage of their victories in Indiana and Arkansas into
further advancing pro-homosexuality laws throughout the United States.
Pat Buchanan
forcefully condemned defeatism among social conservatives and rejected retreat
or even compromise. Instead, the one-time presidential contender and Reagan
White House aide urged Christians to put the laws of God above the laws of man.
“This battle
can be won, but it cannot be won if we do not stand our ground and fight
against this moral onslaught from the left.”
“The LGBT
militants are not asking to be left alone,” he said. “They are demanding that
we accept the morality of homosexuality and same-sex marriages, and manifest
that acceptance, under pain of law and sanctions, in our daily lives.”
Buchanan
added, “As the Romans demanded of the Christians, the LGBT fanatics want us to
burn incense to their gods. The answer is no. If it comes to civil
disobedience, so be it.”
Michael
Brown, an expert who holds a Ph.D. from New York University and has researched
and written a number of books on homosexuality, says he is not surprised by the
reaction of Republican politicians. And, like Buchanan, Brown warns Christians
will have no choice but to resist or submit.
“This is what
we’ve been saying for years. Those who came out of the closet now want to put
us in the closet,” he said.
Republican
presidential candidates such as Jeb Bush are also shifting their positions.
According to audio tapes obtained by the New York Times, the former Florida
governor told a meeting of donors “we shouldn’t discriminate based on sexual
orientation.” Bush
has been praised by the homosexual magazine Washington Blade.
The changes
to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, erode the freedom of
conscience for most business owners in the state and mark the largest step
toward special homosexual rights there in history, according to pro-family
activists who studied the language.
Matt Barber,
founder and editor-in chief of barbwire.com, said about change of the Indiana law, “What
was designed to defend people of faith against being discriminated against and
bullied will, instead, codify anti-religious discrimination and bullying into
law. It will unconstitutionally force people of faith, under penalty of law, to
affirmatively violate their sincerely held religious conscience. It has been
turned into a weapon that compels people of faith to disobey God or face
government sanction. This is unacceptable.”
American
Family Association’s Bryan Fischer remarked, “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.”
“This
language is unacceptable. It actually reverses the progress of
the religious freedom law,” said Americans for Truth About Homosexuality
President Peter LaBarbera.
LaBarbera
clarified that Christian bakers do not want to refuse cakes to homosexual
customers, but they do not want to be forced to bake cakes with symbols
affirming the homosexual lifestyle.
“Let’s take
the example of the wedding cake baker,” he said. “They have a wedding cake.
They sell wedding cakes to everybody, including homosexuals, but they don’t
want to make, create or use their talents to create a gay marriage wedding cake.
So if someone comes in and says, ‘I would like a gay marriage wedding cake,’
according to this language, they would not be able to dent that service. That’s
the exact opposite of religious freedom.”
“This is the
equivalent of asking a Jewish guy to make a cake for (former Ku Klux Klan
official) David Duke, right? You would never expect a Jewish photographer, for
example, to have to take pictures at a Ku Klux Klan rally or a neo-Nazi rally,”
he said. “You should not expect people of faith to endorse a pro-homosexual
marriage if they believe that homosexual marriage is sinful.”
If a black
baker is asked to bake a cake with racist symbols, he should have the right to
refuse. If a Muslim baker is asked to make a Christian or homosexual cake, he
should have the right to refuse. Why have Christians no right to refuse to bake
a cake with immoral symbols that violate their faith?
LaBarbera
said a great deal of the blame for the hysteria in Indiana belongs at the feet
of the news media, which, he said, are not even pretending to cover this story
objectively.
“This is a
media-generated crisis, the media working with gay activists,” he said. “The
mainstream media have become part of the gay lobby almost. An incredible
hysteria has been whipped up against Indiana.”
The hysteria,
the firestorm of malicious opposition, the barrage of criticism, pressure and
boycotts faced by Indiana, before its allegedly conservative Republican
governor decided to capitulate, was the same climate faced by Russia after
Russians had passed a 2013 law to protect children.
The Indiana
law was not as daring as the Russian law, which protects children and teens
from the harmful homosexual propaganda. The massive hysterical response against
Indiana shows what these same groups did to Russia. According
to Rev. Scott Lively, the Ukraine crisis and the U.S. boycotts against Russia
came from these groups.
I wonder what
would happen if Indiana banned homosexual propaganda to children. What massive
crisis would these groups, especially Washington and the presstitute, use
against Indiana?
Russians have
not backed down. They have not been cowardly. However, sadly, the Republican
governor and his conservative allies in Indiana have retreated, and as a result
a law originally designed to protect Christians from homosexual bullying now
advances the gay agenda.
I also wonder
why Apple, Washington and the presstitute have never applied to Saudi Arabia,
which tortures and kills homosexuals, the same hysteria, the firestorm of
malicious opposition, the barrage of criticism, pressure and boycotts they
applied to Indiana, and Russia.
Now, if a
homosexual asks a cake with homosexual symbols, the poor Christian bakers in
Indiana have no choice. If they refuse, the new law will be relentless to them.
If a
homosexual asks bakers in Saudi Arabia for the same cake with homosexual
symbols, he is finished. It will be his last request in this life.
Now, it would
be interesting to see what would happen if a Saudi customer in America asked a
homosexual baker for a cake with Islamic symbols against homosexuality.
Which side
would Apple, Washington and the presstitute choose?
Which side
would suffer hysteria, a firestorm of malicious opposition, a barrage of
criticism, pressure and boycotts?
The side of
money?
Apple has
many stores in the Saudi Islamic dictatorship.
The Saudi
laws against homosexuality and against homosexuals have never been a problem to
Apple, which has multimillion-dollar trade deals with Saudi Arabia.
Why has Apple
a double standard between American Christians and Saudi Muslims?
Why have the
U.S. government and the presstitute a double standard between Christian
Orthodox Russia and Islamic Saudi Arabia about homosexuality?
Bryan
Fischer, Pat Buchanan, Scott Lively, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Dr. Michael
Brown and other prominent pro-family leaders gave warning, but Republican
governors and leaders, who are elected by their constituents to defend conservative
and pro-family values, did not listen to them.
They listened
to Apple, Obama and the leftist mass media.
What is the
point of electing Republican and allegedly conservative politicians if after
their election they do not give attention to their constituents and do not
prioritize or even respect pro-family and conservative values?
What is the
point of electing cowardly individuals unable to keep their conservative
promises and show courage when faced by massive onslaughts of the Left?
With
information from WorldNetDaily Associated Press and Charisma News.
Portuguese version of this article: Governador republicano “covarde”
de Indiana cede, cristãos perdem e ativistas gays ganham
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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