I am the OP on this thread. Poster #3 and poster #14 have added substance to this topic.

I started this topic because for the last few years I have been following what has been occurring in our educational institutes and because progressives have been targeting certain people unfairly.

While I have no feeling either way about her, Paula Deen used an ethnic slur long ago ( in 1960's) and in a recent deposition answered honestly when asked had she ever used that word. Now in my view whether she said it only in 1960 or yesterday, what right do progressives have to systematically destroy her living over it.

One CEO quit his job because he refused to acknowledge same sex marriage. Chick Fil A came under heavy fire . I mentioned the fireman from MN, in my original post, to underscore how these vicious attempts to punish people who have every right to free speech continue unabated.

The Confederate Flag is under attack. I don't have an opinion way or another concerning the confederate Flag but I do care that those voters who fly it have every right to do so. so the progressive intimidation machine get in full force destroying what they deem offensive

Perhaps, I am wrong but I do not see any difference in Southeners celebrating their flag as those Americans that fly their Irish, Italian, German, English and Canadian flags waving from homes, cars or golf carts.

Thomas Jefferson said: " No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of civil authority . It has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it is possible that any of these should consider a conquest over conscience of men either attainable or applicable."

I preface this because I want you to be ready for the blast you are going to get from the gay rights push on their attack of religious freedoms Justice Kennedy intentional left a back door open for the gay movement. They want a rewrite of civil rights laws and The Religious Freedom Reformation Act, etc. Gays abhor the Hobby Lobby ruling and are looking to over turn it.

In my view Jefferson had it right. So if you are religious or if you are morally against same sex marriage etc be ready to be pushed, criticized, badgered ,defamed, suspend or fired from your job and taxed to the hilt by the government. The only recourse is to push back hard and to let your congressional/state leaders know that they better push back too or lose your vote.

I am tired of being polite, I am tired of being pushed and I am tired of people with no common sense radically changing our society to its detriment

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