Forcible Conversion in America
Community of Fashion, Freedom of Thought, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Kevin D. Williamson, Public Accommodation Laws, Religious Freedom, The Elect
Kevin D. Williamson notes that our ruling class is determined to eliminate private freedom of thought and opinion and make everyone in America conform in every kind of expression to the belief system of the optimates.
Adlai Stevenson famously offered this definition: “A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.†We do not live in that society. …
When there is no private property — the great legal fiction of “public accommodation†saw to its effective abolition — then everything is subject to brute-force politics, and there can be no live-and-let-live ethic, which is why a nation facing financial ruination and the emergence of a bloodthirsty Islamic caliphate is suffering paroxysms over the question of whether we can clap confectioners into prison for declining to bake a cake for a wedding in which there is no bride. …
Gay couples contemplating nuptials are not just happening into cake shops and florists with Christian proprietors — this is an organized campaign to bring the private mind under political discipline, to render certain moral dispositions untenable. Like Antiochus and the Jews, the game here is to “oblige them to partake of the sacrifices†and “adopt the customs†of the rulers.
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