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The conservative conspiracy theory outlet WorldNetDaily is out with a petition today asking lawmakers throughout the country to ensure that religious freedom in America is not crushed by rigid imposition of non-discrimination laws based on sexual behavior and sexual identification.
WNDs petition warns that anyone who opposes LGBT equality will soon be prosecuted and legally driven out of their homes and businesses as a result of gay rights laws, which the outlet believes are strikingly reminiscent of communist totalitarian countries like Mao-era China.
The petition goes on call gay marriage a social experiment being forced down the throats of a once-Christian nation that will eventually make the practice of Christianity effectively illegal, forcing faithful believers underground just as faithful believers are forced underground in many parts of the world under the cruel dominance of totalitarian ideologies.
Any official who supports the naked totalitarianism of the LGBT rights movement, WND adds, seeks to outlaw Christianity and stamp out freedom.
Whereas, the spectacle of an innocent 21-year-old Christian girl, who, for honestly replying to a TV reporter's hypothetical question and saying her family's pizza parlor wouldn't cater a homosexual wedding, was the recipient of a mountain of obscene abuse and death threats, including threats and incitement to burn down the family's business;
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Takket
(21,632 posts)How often can these people cry wolf until their readers start to realize none of their awful predictions actually come true?
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)It's about jerking the hate-strings of the fundies. The grammar & logic don't matter. It's all about conditioning visceral responses to target stimuli. You get "gay," "Communist," and "totalitarian" all in one lump, and you just keep hammering at it while all the rationalists are screaming, "That doesn't make any sense!" Well, it doesn't have to make sense. It's not supposed to make sense. It's all about repetitive, primitive signals to the autonomic nervous systems of the Faithful.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)What the hell part of love thy neighbor as thy self don't they understand?
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)how these geniuses keep figuring out the Master Plan?
I think one of you has to stop drinking because you blab too much after a couple of Bud Lite Limes.
Now we have to put off Agenda 21-K....dammit...
Be on the lookout for Agenda 21-L in the not too distant future.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)So, what is the downside? I'm not seeing one.