After being removed from all Congressional committees, Taylor-Green makes one of the best defenses of true conservatism to ever spoken with the courage, integrity, and faith.
Since January, Americans have been witnesses to, in a growing number of seismic shifts in their freedoms to worship, assemble, communicate with others. Their ability to access vital objective information about events, issues, and trends which effect their everyday lives, futures, the futures of loved ones, and their liberties, has entered a campaign of purging which no one could have ever imagined before.
Conservatives, especially conservative Christians as well as those practicing Orthodox and Conservative Judaism, need to start coming to terms with the only two choices they have, actively standing unashamed against the strengthening storm or burrow into their own small worlds to watch while “Rome burns”.
G.K. Chesterton (Writer, Philosopher, Lay Theologian) wrote: “There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.”
Abraham Kuyper (Pastor, Philosopher, Dutch Prime Minister) wrote: “When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is you calling and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.”
The Psalmist (119: 41-46) put it this way: “May Your favor also come to me, LORD, Your salvation according to Your word; so that I will have an answer for one who taunts me, for I trust in Your word. And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I wait for Your judgments. So I will keep Your Law continually, forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts. I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings and shall not be ashamed. “
In my opinion, it is a dangerous fallacy in such an age as this, to believe that “good” Christians can simultaneously be responsible citizens while hiding behind the idea that speaking publicly in defense of righteousness and justice is somehow not their divine calling. Such reasoning flies in the face of the entirety of the biblical history of God’s interactions and expectations of His people. For these reasons, I propose to offer, over the next posts, observations of how we can patriotically walk in our faith and fulfill our responsibilities to both God and man.
To set the stage, one thing should be obvious. The highest priority is God’s glory and therefore, I believe, His “reputation” in His creation – the world and the nation we live in. That raises the need for an especially important distinction. It is beyond question that Christians are to obediently accept persecution FOR THEIR FAITH (a mere blip in America in comparison to the Middle East and China). However, our role as bearers of light amid the encroaching darkness and therefore God’s expectation for us to be defenders of righteousness, is completely different. Our tools for bearing light and defending righteousness, and justice, will be my ongoing focus now.
It has been a longer time than it should have been since my last posting. I have been hesitant to do anything until the events of the last few weeks had time to shake out. I have been praying, literally, that true justice and righteousness would somehow prevail. Tragically, it has not. Right now, the forces of national self-destruction, empowered by a decades-long campaign by the Left to usher in their dream of socialist utopia, have prevailed instead with blatant circumstances in every branch of government of ACTUAL SEDITION – at least for the foreseeable future.
At the time of this posting, the Leftists and conscience-shallow Republicans are in the process of impeaching President Trump based on completely fabricated, hate-driven vengeance. Anyone who cares about truth in this situation has only to access the president’s speeches and watch his other activities (unless our tech oligarchs are able to vaporize him) to watch in wonder as proclamations by congressional Democrats and the media turn reality on its head without consequence.
At the same time, the internet is awash with video clips, Facebook & Twitter posts of Democrats and other activists over the last four years ACTUALLY calling for uprisings in the streets, accosting conservative government officials and politicians, and openly warring to overthrow a duly elected president. I understand that this site has a very small subscriber base compared to others and that some of my subscribers may have faded away, but those who are still following can have a powerful impact.
It is time for loyal Americans who care, to work diligently at getting truth to the larger public. Sure, it would be nice to share this site, but that is not my end goal. My call to you is to diligently search out every single conservative sharing source you can find and share, share, share. We may yet be able to save this republic from the ravages of a new “American Soviet” !!
There are no words left. There are 4 more links below. All we can do is keep exposing the corruption and pray that, before it is too late, some courageous patriotic soul(s) decide to risk their careers for the sake of justice, the Constitution, and the country they all claim to love.
Solomon has analyzed voting anomalies from the raw data for Philadelphia taken from the New York Times !! He was able to conclusively demonstrate how vote total ratios were artificially transferred between precincts.
Tal Kopan@TalKopan·Georgia secretary of state says some counties have forgotten to click the “upload” button, so they’ve sent a reminder out.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/az-voters-file-lawsuit-against-maricopa-county-after-sharpiegate
Never vote for what a politician says or promises. Always vote on the basis of what he/she has done and what he/she is committed to. The two 2020 party platforms should be all we need to know. Take a look.
Some lives matter more – or – “Black, brown & blue; red, yellow and white; we are all precious in His sight” (to use a revised children’s rime). In the current pandemic of sensationalism and raw emotion seeming to overpower rationality on a large scale, which will rule the future?
There is not a living responsible adult within the 50 states that is not aware of the massive powers at work within our nation attempting to rip us apart from the inside out. The loudest voices of ANTIFA and the Black Lives Matter movement, are only parts of the competing powers struggling to gain the upper hand into the future of America’s heart. It is that essence of America that drives and steers our political, judicial, cultural, and ethical structures. Commandeer that national spirit and the rest will topple.
How did the United States of America, the most successful, most uniquely governed, most diverse nation ever established in the history of the world, after the horror of civil war and the crucible of hard-fought civil rights, allow herself to be deceived and overrun by the second-most powerful racist ideologies since slavery and the Jim Crow South? How, after all of her struggles, reaching the apex of Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership, has she sunk into an abyss of all thing anathema to him?
In a few words, it is the narcissism of tribalism, “Intersectionality”, and “Wokeness”. The vacuum created by King’s assassination was filled, and still is, by cunning weaponization of natural but base human impulses; class and racial envy, egoism over humility, melatonin over personhood, victimology over contribution, grudge-bearing over forgiveness, and anger over peace.
Anyone who watches and listens intentionally to news from any source at all or takes advantage of information from social media, will be able to understand the actions and words of progressivism and the Left. It does not matter if the sources are reporters, politicians, bureaucrats, college students or demonstrators on the street. For these folks, society gives justice its meaning and its power. The standards and application of justice are rooted in the power of their demands and change as the fabric of society yields to new and ever-shifting grievances and developing popular standards.
“Intersectional” justice determines the value of one’s grievance base on how many layers of disadvantage or felt victimhood a person can claim. The demands of justice for a successful straight white male, pale to near insignificance in comparison to that of a poor Black female member of the LGBTQIA community. “Woke” justice pre-determines blood-guilt [bearing in the sins of your ancestors] or innocence based on one’s genetic skin color and racial heritage. To deny white privilege is to declare one’s guilt, but if he or she confesses it, they gain only the responsibility of penance and the lifelong burden of their racial shame.
Those carry the very essence of establishing a new “systemic racism” and, I might add, a new systemic anti-authoritarianism. It all sounds so reasonable – (What’s next for Black advocacy in Holland) get into public schools, cut law enforcement budgets even in small peaceful cities such as Holland, Michigan by “5% to 10%”; equivocate “white…wealth” against inner city poverty; most egregious of all, pervert Martin Luther King’s highest ideal, “I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” (28 August in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) into “If you don’t see my color, you don’t see me”.
The other side of the coin could not be more different. The justice system on which America was founded and is reflected in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Federalist Papers, rests on the existence of standards outside of and superior to, the self-aggrandizements of tribalism, intersectionality, and wokeness or the fickleness of society. Without those anchors, a truly just society cannot survive.
Calvin Beisner has summed it up in his paper “Social Justice: How good Intentions Undermine Justice and Gospel”. To use Beisner’s words, “Justice requires impartiality, an equal application of all relevant rules to all people in all relevant situations”. In the eyes of Madame Justice, the application favored status, no matter one’s circumstances or the look of their shell is anathema. And, if such offences are discovered, that external standard is exactly what provides true justice.
Beisner also writes, “Justice requires proportionality, symmetry between the initial act…and the rewards or punishments”. To use a colloquialism, “if you didn’t do the crime, you don’t do the time”. Whiteness doesn’t create guilt any more than Blackness creates failure. Being a police officer does not create abuse any more than being a firefighter creates an arsonist.
It is amazing how many conservatives are absent from work until they are threatened with their personal well-being. Employers rely on the authority to withhold pay and benefits to retain workers. Unfortunately, the same principal seems to apply to conservatives in their responsibilities as citizens.
Holland, Michigan can now serve as the perfect pattern of what happens when only 13%, in Holland’s case, represent the sum total of voters, let alone less than that of conservatives, who care about their public responsibilities. Elections have consequences no matter at what level they occur; local, state, or national. Ironically, as a general rule, it is after-the-fact conservatives who are the best hand-wringers when their apathy suddenly comes home to roost after liberals and leftists whom they allowed into office become a threat.
What citizens in major Democrat-run cities and states are experiencing this summer – suffering from lockdowns, violence and destruction with little accountability, rebellion against law enforcement, and direct attacks on civil rights, are the spoiled fruit of a leave-me-alone-until-it-hurts mentality in the conservative community.
In Holland, three council members gained their seats via that pitiful 13% turnout after campaigning specifically on promises to push through a homosexual protection ordinance. Almost immediately after the election, LGBTQ activists and organizations demanded ordinance action. The new liberal majority eagerly obliged. Over the next six months, gay rights activists maintained a commanding presence at city hall while conservatives, save three or four individuals, stayed uniformed and, in the case of several conservative churches who were aware of the situation, uninterested in making even minimal efforts of involvement.
The council, led by the mayor, operated brilliantly against the malaise of the majority of this historically center-right city. The majority of the council studiously avoided any research or discussion regarding a total lack of actual discrimination, calls for recognition of the newest revolutionary 2020 social and legal changes, or most importantly, the possible consequences to the liberties of anyone disloyal to gay ideology who would be so bold and to be unsubmissive. The language for the proposed ordinance changes were never publicized.
In the end, the ordinance changes were adopted. The council refused to add this language:
Government. shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion, to include ownership or operations of public or private businesses or non-profits, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, except as provided in subsection (b)
(b) EXCEPTION Government may substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that application of the burden to the person.
1. is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and
2. is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.
Just two members of the council offered amendments to protect conscience rights which were promptly rejected. Only one councilman had the courage and strength of conviction to vote no.
As hinted earlier, this long description of Holland’s fall, is actually a perfect cautionary tale for all the darkness that covers our state and nation. We supposedly operate under a representative government which gives the minority representation, but not inordinate power or influence. In the real world, it is the minority’s burden to justify its claims against the majority, not the other way around. If those claims cannot be demonstrated as accurate, those claims are illegitimate and potentially destructive to the rights and wellbeing of everyone.
Consequences always follow fluid standards of behaviors and law. Truth and reality become moving targets, ebbing and flowing, being tossed about with every wind of desire when such fluidity is peacefully ignored by ignorance, apathy, or license; as citizens continue to bend the knee by inaction until they are suddenly personally wounded and it is too late to recover.
The slothful conservative wakes up one morning to the world he or she has enabled. Religion is expected to evolve with the surf or be compartmentalized and naturalized so that it is only valued as a suggestion rather than being definitive in real lives, a matter of mere individual backwardness. Public Spiritual profiling and legalized spiritual apartheid rears its ugly head. Pressures in hiring in spite of qualifications and in spite of a business’s mission and convictions become realities. The same holds true for an employer’s right to terminate employees in spite of their performance.
There is only one way by which our system of a representative republic is turned on its head; that is when the only mechanism for securing freedom over tyranny is surrendered to malignant forces.
There are plenty of things for conservatives to be frustrated about these days. Lawlessness in large cities seems to be spreading without significant action from mayors and governors. The history of our great nation is openly being attacked on an almost daily basis. In the last few months, the most fundamental rights of faith and conscience have been weakened by our own Supreme Court. Yet, there has been no Tea Party-like uprising. Too much of the time, conservatives are their own worst enemies.
Now comes the fair city of Holland Michigan’s turn to participate in the conflict. Since the first of June, the city council has been grappling with the issue of protections, via ordinance, for publicly-expressed LGBTQIA lifestyles in housing, employment, and other forms of privately-owned venues.
This has hit the place people call home and it has been discouraging. Judging by attendance, local conservatives have been either in the dark or unwilling to sacrifice their Wednesday evenings. As of July 22nd, during both business sessions on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays (6:30pm) and study sessions on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays (5:30pm), conservatives have been represented by only three or four of the same individuals with in-person remarks – no conservative pastors or church representatives or other voices of conservative convictions. At the same time, every week, there has been an orchestrated presence of the same gay activists, pro-gay mental health professionals and liberal pastors. Their attendance has been anywhere between two-to-four times that of those four conservatives.
First, some more facts before opinion. Take a look at the proposed provisions of the ordinance are on the city’s website:
Sec. 25-3. Prohibition of Discrimination – “No person or persons shall discriminate against any person or persons within the City regarding: (a) Employment; (b) The advertising, listing, showing, inspection, negotiation, purchase, sale, exchange, ownership, or financing an interest in real property or the leasing or occupancy of real property; (c) Public accommodations; or (d) Public services on the basis of age, race, national origin, color, disability, education, familial status, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, height, marital status, religion, source of income or weight.”
25-4. lists exemptions: (g)Any conduct lawfully protected by the Holland City Charter or by the Michigan Constitution or the United States Constitution. Section 25-9 is significant: Sec. 25-9. Interpretation. (b) Not be read to prohibit or interfere with a person’s, or a religious institution’s, free exercise of religion.
Notice the excerpt from 25-4 and 25-9. It references only the “exercise of religion” and “religious institutions”. From the liberal point of view, declared many times over the course of public comments, generic religion is fine as long as it stays at home, in the church, or in one’s head. This is what the ordinance protects. Nothing more.
Throughout the entirety of Holland’s city council deliberations, the majority has refused to address the elephants in the room:
*The fact that gay activists are not tolerant or gracious toward conservative “religion”. To deny this is to be either willfully ignorant of movement’s history, and stated intentions or, worse, is being disingenuous.
*The well-documented intention to conquer public speech, private businesses, athletics, and services.
* The vocal prejudice of LGBTQIA activists against conscience and faith dissent by conservatives.
* Claims of inhospitality, intolerance, and unenlightened group-think (ignorance) which cannot be objectively countered without context and observation.
* The purely ideological equivalence of homosexual rights with human rights.
*The refusal of the council’s majority to deal with the America and Holland of 2020 instead of 2011.
* Most destressing of all, the steadfast refusal by the council’s majority to publicly respond to challenges from conservative speakers.
The constant mantra of employment and housing abuses in Holland is a fable. We are not 2011. Any objective person should defy any council person or speaker to show, in this day and age, especially after the latest Supreme Court decisions, the existence of any employer or other public accommodation who would dare act against anyone of the gay community strictly because of their sexual status. In reality, employers and public accommodations cater to the LGBTQIA community knowing that there is a constant danger of social and legal consequences lurking over their shoulders.
Finally, the idea that the gay rights campaign has overwhelming support is ludicrous on its face. Because there has been a lack of objective, concerted, outreach to the community at-large by Holland’s city council – no voting, no forums, no polling, no published text of the proposed amendment – there can be no consensus. If it is accurate that 13% of Holland residents voted in council elections, how are we to believe that even 51% have any idea what has been proposed? This will impact the city as nothing else thus far? Maybe its time for honest investigation and 2020 integrity.
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