5 posts tagged “first amendment”
Here is a classic example of the homosexual agenda exploiting the belief that homosexuality is an immoral practice by using anti-discrimination or hate crimes laws to PUNISH a business that declined to do a photo opt for a same-sex marriage. The State Government is using anti-discrimination laws to prevent the free exercise of religion as protected under the First Amendment to protect the practice of a horrible disgusting lifestyle in which the Bible believing Christians find sinful.
Disgusting!
JRH 4/14/08
Remember the British blogger with the moniker of Lionheart?
The last I had read he was on a plane on his way back to Britain knowing that the British cops were waiting to arrest him for inciting Hate Speech against Mohammedans (Since it is Lionheart maybe we should use the Crusader term – Saracens).
I have come upon some new information about Lionheart. Primarily he was not on his back to Britain but is in America seeking asylum based on the American system of First Amendment Free Speech, which does not exist in Britain.
Second I have learned that Lionheart although is anti-Islamist, he has political leanings toward the unsavory principles of Neo-Fascism. I am still unaware of how deep Lionheart’s Neo-Fascist sympathies are; however if he is a closet Nazi, that is not good. That would mean he is crying victim about his Free Speech rights while simultaneously being a supporter of racism and hate crimes.
Thus until I discover more data (for me that is running into it by chance), I am uncertain how sympathetic I am to Lionheart’s cause of Freedom of Speech.
Here is the scoop from the Gates of Vienna.
In America Islamist organizations similar to CAIR use litigation to throw down First Amendment Free Speech by the intimidation of it costs money for lawyers to stand by the truth. Is there a time when litigation becomes irrelevant and the First Amendment is revoked by Judicial Tyranny by making the truth a felonious crime known as hate speech?
That is what is happening to a British Blogger known as Lionheart who is a plane to jolly old England certain to be arrested for hate speech for blogging about Islamic Jihad.
I am growing weary of Islamic organizations whining about prejudice and hate when Western writers and bloggers are merely reporting what is in Islamic sources or public record. These Islamists or these Mohammedans or these Mohammedan organizations utilize Western Laws to effectively squelch Freedom of Speech and silence Western critics of the reality of violence inherent in that Theo-political cult known as Islam (I prefer Mohammedanism after their psycho-prophet).
In America Andrew Whitehead successfully withstood litigation intimidation with CAIR. When CAIR sued Whitehead for making false statements on his website Anti-CAIR, Whitehead’s lawyer asked for discovery documentation from CAIR about donations among other items. CAIR chose not to give up that information and dropped the suit. Speculation would assume the reason for not giving up the Discovery Requests is because it would connect terrorism to CAIR.
On the other hand foreign Islamists with a ton of money have found a way to circumvent American litigation laws. Sheikh Khalid Bin Mahfouz of Saudi Arabia sued American author Rachel Ehrenfeld for using his name (which was documented) as a funder of terrorism in her book American published book, Funding Evil. Bin Mahfouz did not sue in America where the burden of proof would be on him, he went to the UK where the defendant in litigation has to prove the plaintiff wrong. The hypocrisy of it all is the Funding Evil was never published or marketed in the UK however a number of books (like approximately seven) were purchased on the Internet. Ehrenfeld is an American and NOT a British citizen and felt no legal obligation to pour money into lawyers (or in the UK’s case – barristers) to satisfy a litigious Islamist.
Bin Mahfouz won by default for the Ehrenfeld no show. Ehrenfeld has since written an exposé on the Muslim Brotherhood. American Publishers won’t publish it for fear of offending foreign Muslims who might litigate in foreign courts. Ehrenfeld is not the only American having their First Amendment Rights squelched by foreign courts – READ HERE.
Ehrenfeld tried to use the New York State Judiciary system to protect her First Amendment rights from foreign courts; however at the Appellate level she was shot down claiming the State Judiciary had no jurisdiction. Ehrenfeld has other options which include fighting bin Mahfouz if he has the audacity to collect in American Courts the judgment leveled by the dhimmi judge in the UK.
Blogmeister USA weighs in with about Lionheart’s legal persecution by Islamofascism in Britain:
Let us read the bed rock of civil rights in America today:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (First Amendment)
The problem the Christian Right and many Conservatives have with Liberal Activist Judges and Justices is the interpretation of “Establishment Clause.” The Left and/or Progressives believe the implication of the clause is that religion can have zero association with anything taxpayer supported on all levels of government. The Christian Right and many Conservatives believe the clause merely prohibits the Federal Government from establishing a CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION as the religion of the land or nation. Thus the Christian Right believes the symbols of the moral foundations of America (i.e. Judeo-Christianity) are inclusive on public lands as long as the Federal Government does not establish the symbolism as representative of a particular Christian Denomination.
Now let’s look at the next clause of the First Amendment: [Congress shall make no law] prohibiting the free exercise thereof (i.e. religion).
Everybody from the fringe Left to the fringe Right pretty much understands this to mean the Federal Government cannot prohibit the free exercise of religion, in other words – Freedom of Religion.
Unfortunately the Leftist interpretation of the Establishment Clause has become a weapon aimed at Christianity’s free exercise of Religion in recent years. Since the Leftists in the Judiciary have become firm on the non-existent Constitutional term “Separation of Church and State,” the Christian religion has slowly been exorcised from a public forum (particularly in public schools) with the unconstitutional promotion of non-Christian religions in public schools.
The primary case in point is that schools are prohibited from allowing Bible reading or Christian cultural history to be taught yet alternative religions and the humanist religion of Secular Humanism are becoming mandated norms in our public schools.
Religions such as Mohammedanism, Hinduism and Buddhism (to name a few) are required as practicing role models to instill a counter Christian cultural understanding of other religions. The worst example is the forcing of students to recite the Quran and pray toward Mecca with the weak explanation of teaching the understanding of alternative cultures and religions. Hello! Christianity is prohibited in the class room.
Another religion being foistered among the young are the various New Age cultic religions propagated into schools and public forums as an alternative to Christianity.
I don’t have a problem of stacking various religions equally in the class room comparatively; however Christianity is not part of that comparison. Leftists whine of “Separation of Church and State” and thus prohibit the equal ground of Christian ethos and morality to be taught equally with the alternative religions. This directly breaks the second clause of the First Amendment by prohibiting the free exercise of Christianity and establishing the study of other religions as an alternative to Christianity.
Some might say, “Did you see the word ‘Secular’ in Secular Humanism?” The very word “secular” denotes something other than religion. The reality of course is that the tenets of Secular Humanism have taken on a cultic value. Thus all that defines a religion such as setting values and tenets and mindsets that compete with other religions have transformed Secular Humanism into a religion. The only difference from Secular Humanism from other Religions is that the god of Secular Humanism is the relative terms of human philosophy; ergo humanity collectively is god.
Now let’s bring this discussion home about Presidential Candidate Barak Obama running for the Democratic Party nomination.
Obama is an articulate charismatic speaker. This has aided him in catching up in the polls to his adversarial harsh sounding rival Hillary Clinton. Not too long ago Hillary was thought of as the unstoppable Queen of the hill that many felt was a certainty for the Democratic Party nomination.
Enter Oprah Winfrey into the endorsement fray. Oprah not only endorses Obama but is actively campaigning for an Obama nomination. And it is her right to do so.
If Oprah is successful in knocking the Queen off the top of the hill with Obama replacing Hillary as the Democratic Party nomination, then you Christian Right people should know a few things about Oprah personal religious beliefs that she is entirely free to practice.
Oprah is a devoted New Ager that hangs with New Age big dogs such as Marianne Williamson and Neal Donald Walsch. Oprah is heavily hooked into the New Age principles of “A Course in Miracles.” All this is no big deal as far as the freedom of religion goes.
Here is my concern. Obama is not exactly a moderate. He has a Mohammedan past and attends what the Christian Right would term a progressive Church. The term “progressive” is another way of saying liberal. The Denomination that Obama attends is the United Church of Christ (UCC), which is notorious for abandoning the Scriptures of the Bible as Divine and supports such things as homosexual rights and abortion.
So I am thinking Hillary is a Leftie; however Obama by association is even more a fringe moonbat Leftie. And Oprah is using her star power and influence to hook Obama’s charisma to the Democratic Party.
For Conservatives and the Christian Right, this is dangerous stuff!
Here is a very awesome essay that is of the opinion the concept of a living breathing U.S. Constitution that is malleable by the times as the Judiciary sees fit leads to tyranny.
And I say “AMEN!”
