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 |
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 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:
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