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Posted at 8:20am on Jul. 9, 2008 Freedom is so... passe
By RightMichigan.com
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
Low rise jeans and term limits. Beautiful things. What do the topics have in common? Nothing but liberty, my friends, nothing but liberty.
First, our friend, the term limit. Love them or hate them, it is tough to argue limits aren't affecting the way things happen in Lansing. Or that they aren't about to affect things in even more profound ways this November. The Detroit News reports this morning on this fall's state House elections where forty-four members of the chamber are getting the boot not because the voters got sick of them but because, well, just because.
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Posted at 10:35am on Jun. 19, 2008 Tolerance and tyranny.
By Paul J Cella
Only a man of uncommon obtuseness could fail to predict this. In New Jersey, a homosexual couple wants to get married on a pavilion owned by a Methodist organization.
When Bernstein and Paster asked to celebrate their civil union in the pavilion, the Methodist organization said they could marry on the boardwalk — anywhere but buildings used for religious purposes. In other words, not the pavilion. [Rev. Scott] Hoffman says there was a theological principle at stake.
“The principle was a strongly held religious belief that a marriage is between a man and a woman,” Hoffman says. “We’re not casting any aspersions or making any judgments. It’s just, that’s where we stand, and we’ve always stood that way, and that's why we said no.”
The refusal came as a shock to Bernstein, who says Ocean Grove has been revived by the gay community.
“We were crushed,” she says. “I lived my whole live, fortunately, without having any overt prejudices or discrimination waged against me. So while I knew it was wrong, I never knew how it felt. And after this, I did know how that felt. It was extremely painful.” [. . .]
So the couple filed a complaint with New Jersey’s Division of Civil Rights, alleging the Methodists unlawfully discriminated against them based on sexual orientation. Attorney Lawrence Lustberg represents them.
“Our law against discrimination does not allow [the group] to use those personal preferences, no matter how deeply held, and no matter — even if they’re religiously based — as a grounds to discriminate,” Lustberg says. “Religion shouldn’t be about violating the law.”
Do I even need to tell you which side the court found for? Read on.
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