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Title: This Week in God, 6.4.16
Post by: Deborah on June 04, 2016, 09:56:26 AM
Post by: Deborah on June 04, 2016, 09:56:26 AM
This Week in God, 6.4.16
By Steve Benen, MSNBC
4 June 2016
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-6416
. . . a faith-based argument from one of North Carolina's top elected officials, in defense of the state's deeply controversial anti-LGBT statute. . . .
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest (R), appeared on a far-right conspiracy theorist's radio show on Wednesday, where the Republican official took the debate in a theocratic direction.
He said that [measures such as Charlotte's anti-discrimination measure, which prompted HB 2] were approved because "we have a lack of moral compass in our country right now, we've taken our eyes off God in America, we have turned our back on God, we have forgotten God in a lot of ways, so the moral compass is broken here."
Forest went on to say that anti-LGBT laws like North Carolina's only "discriminate against behavior, not against people," comparing them to traffic laws: "If I want to go out and drive 95 miles an hour down the interstate in North Carolina because I feel like doing that, I don't have the right to do that. It doesn't mean the law is discriminating against me, it's discriminating against my behavior of wanting to drive 95."
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Is there any doubt that these people are trying to transform America into their vision of a theocratic paradise?
Sapere Aude
By Steve Benen, MSNBC
4 June 2016
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/week-god-6416
. . . a faith-based argument from one of North Carolina's top elected officials, in defense of the state's deeply controversial anti-LGBT statute. . . .
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest (R), appeared on a far-right conspiracy theorist's radio show on Wednesday, where the Republican official took the debate in a theocratic direction.
He said that [measures such as Charlotte's anti-discrimination measure, which prompted HB 2] were approved because "we have a lack of moral compass in our country right now, we've taken our eyes off God in America, we have turned our back on God, we have forgotten God in a lot of ways, so the moral compass is broken here."
Forest went on to say that anti-LGBT laws like North Carolina's only "discriminate against behavior, not against people," comparing them to traffic laws: "If I want to go out and drive 95 miles an hour down the interstate in North Carolina because I feel like doing that, I don't have the right to do that. It doesn't mean the law is discriminating against me, it's discriminating against my behavior of wanting to drive 95."
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Is there any doubt that these people are trying to transform America into their vision of a theocratic paradise?
Sapere Aude
Title: Re: This Week in God, 6.4.16
Post by: TC on June 04, 2016, 02:03:49 PM
Post by: TC on June 04, 2016, 02:03:49 PM
Yeah it's tough sledding trying to find a rational consensus with someone using a theological argument. Even if you can circle them around on their own logic (the morality they are teaching is actually hatred/bigotry) they will ultimately fall back on their skewed and or selective interpretation.
As the 2016 election cycle is showing us. There are large numbers of people that can not befriended taught or reasoned with. I think the long term solution is inclusion and love become more mainstream valued and bigotry become marginalized. We create this change by being kind to those that will let us...
As the 2016 election cycle is showing us. There are large numbers of people that can not befriended taught or reasoned with. I think the long term solution is inclusion and love become more mainstream valued and bigotry become marginalized. We create this change by being kind to those that will let us...