{"id":8103,"date":"2014-02-27T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/tony-flood-on-governor-brewers-capitulation\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:55:14","slug":"tony-flood-on-governor-brewers-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/tony-flood-on-governor-brewers-capitulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Flood on Governor Brewer&#8217;s Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Commenting on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/27\/us\/Brewer-arizona-gay-service-bill.html#permid=11243260\" target=\"_self\">NYT piece<\/a> on Brewer&#39;s capitulation to the anti-liberty forces of political correctness, long-time correspondent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyflood.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Anthony Flood<\/a> writes: <br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"comment-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">\u201cReligious liberty is a core American and Arizona value,\u201d Governor Brewer philosophized, but \u201cso is no discrimination.\u201d The syntactically challenged governor, or was it her ghost-writer?, evaded the implication that, should the two conflict, religious liberty must give way to &quot;no discrimination.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">To elicit the desired Pavlovian response, &quot;discrimination,&quot; a &quot;boo&quot; word, replaced &quot;freedom of association,&quot; once a &quot;yay&quot; word. The Christian photographer or baker who invites a same-sex couple to seek services elsewhere is slandered as the moral equivalent of a Jim Crow-era bigot. &quot;No discrimination&quot; &#8212; which no American founding document honors &#8212; is the inviolable dogma of post-Christian Humanism, itself a species of religion.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The LGBT &quot;civil rights movement,&quot; apparently bored with mere &quot;tolerance,&quot; now demands participation by Christians in the celebration of what they deem morally abhorrent if they are &quot;asked.&quot; If they refuse, they can risk prosecution or shutter their businesses. Humanism&#39;s propagandists, including many deluded but professing Christians, get to label their opponents &quot;bullies&quot; and &quot;bigots.&quot; Meanwhile, AG Holder brazenly suggests to his state counterparts that they need not enforce statutes they swore an oath to uphold but which, in their superior wisdom, deem indefensible, particularly laws that defend traditional marriage.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Let God be true, but every man a liar (Rom 3:4). He will not be mocked (Gal 6:7)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"comment-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"comment-text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia,palatino;\">See my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/liberal-fascism-the-floral-variation.html\" target=\"_self\">Liberal Fascism: The Floral Variation<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2013\/07\/liberal-fascism-the-floral-variation.html\" target=\"_self\">Related articles<\/a><\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; 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\u201cReligious liberty is a core American and Arizona value,\u201d Governor Brewer philosophized, but \u201cso is no discrimination.\u201d The syntactically challenged governor, or was it her ghost-writer?, evaded the implication that, should the two conflict, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/27\/tony-flood-on-governor-brewers-capitulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Flood on Governor Brewer&#8217;s Capitulation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,163,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}