{"id":8652,"date":"2013-07-11T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/11\/liberal-fascism-the-floral-variation\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:23:21","slug":"liberal-fascism-the-floral-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/11\/liberal-fascism-the-floral-variation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Fascism: The Floral Variation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suppose a florist refuses to provide flowers for a Ku Klux Klan event, or a caterer refuses to cater a neo-Nazi gathering.  Suppose the refusal is a principled one grounded in opposition to the respective ideologies.  Would you say that the purveyors of the services in question would have the right to refuse service, and that the State would have no right to force the purveyors to provide their services?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes you would.  Well, it is no different if a florist refuses on grounds of principle to sell flowers to be used in a same-sex ceremony.  She has the right to refuse, and the State has no right to compel the florist to violate her conscience.  <\/span><\/p>\n

There is no relevant difference between these cases.  Opposition to same-sex marriage is grounded in principle.  For some these principles are religious, for others purely philosophical, and for still others a mixture of both.  <\/span><\/p>\n

People had better wake up.  Day by day we are losing our liberties to the fascists of the totalitarian Left.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The above is an actual case<\/a>, and it is no suprise that the shysters of the ACLU<\/a> are among the tormentors of the florist in question.<\/span><\/p>\n

One what ground?  Discrimination!<\/span><\/p>\n

The shysters of the ACLU need to read my Profiling, Prejudice, and Discrimination<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suppose a florist refuses to provide flowers for a Ku Klux Klan event, or a caterer refuses to cater a neo-Nazi gathering.  Suppose the refusal is a principled one grounded in opposition to the respective ideologies.  Would you say that the purveyors of the services in question would have the right to refuse service, and … Continue reading “Liberal Fascism: The Floral Variation”<\/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":[180,163,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}