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And you're aware he was banned for life; and the NBA is attempting to wrest his team from his control.
Also, do you recall Brendan Eich? He is a software guru, he helped found Mozilla, which brought you the Firefox browser.
But when it came to light that he donated money to support Proposition 8 in California -- to reinstate the language in the state constitution that protected the since-the-dawn-of-time understanding that marriage is male-female -- he was hounded from his job.
That's right. He was forced out as head of his own company.
What do they have in common, you ask?
Let Ron Fournier explain it. He writes for the staid, mainstream National Journal, and according to him, in today's edition, if you oppose redefining marriage, you might as well be a supporter of segregation and Jim Crow.
Get the picture? As far as the advocates of "inclusion" are concerned, Brendan Eich = Donald Sterling.
Mark down that I told you this. Before the decade ends, we will see many more people given the Brendan Eich/Donald Sterling treatment, simply because they believe that marriage remains male-female.
If they can do this to very rich and powerful business owners, what will protect the rest of us?
King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, which he set up in the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. He then ordered the satraps, prefects, and governors, the counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the officials of the provinces to be summoned to the dedication of the statue which he had set up.
The satraps, prefects, and governors, the counselors, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the officials of the provinces came together for the dedication and stood before the statue which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
A herald cried out: “Nations and peoples of every language, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, double-flute, and all the other musical instruments, you must fall down and worship the golden statue which King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not fall down and worship shall be instantly cast into a white-hot furnace.”
Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, double-flute, and all the other musical instruments, the nations and peoples of every language all fell down and worshiped the golden statue which King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
At that point, some of the Chaldeans came and accused the Jews to King Nebuchadnezzar: “O king, live forever! O king, you issued a decree that everyone who heard the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, and double-flute, and all the other musical instruments should fall down and worship the golden statue; whoever did not was to be cast into a white-hot furnace.
There are certain Jews whom you have made administrators of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have paid no attention to you; they will not serve your god or worship the golden statue which you set up.”
Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage and sent for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who were promptly brought before the king. King Nebuchadnezzar questioned them: “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you will not serve my god, or worship the golden statue that I set up?
Now, if you are ready to fall down and worship the statue I made, whenever you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, zither, dulcimer, harp, double-flute, and all the other musical instruments, then all will be well; if not, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace; and who is the God who can deliver you out of my hands?”
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “There is no need for us to defend ourselves before you in this matter.
If our God, whom we serve, can save us from the white-hot furnace and from your hands, O king, may he save us! But even if he will not, you should know, O king, that we will not serve your god or worship the golden statue which you set up" (Daniel 3:1-18).
Update (a few mins later):
Oh, and I forgot about these fellows:
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6 comments:
Excellent point. Excellent post.
I hope other leaders of the Church are paying attention to this.
Father, I hope that people in the "free" West persevere in their faith. However, I think that too much has already fallen. There will be a great reaping of lost, weak and faithless souls.
Trooper York, nice hat.
Yes, it's going to get ugly, and Pope Benedict was right in that there will be a smaller, more devout and orthodox Church. We will lose our great schools, lands and Cathedrals. We might even be driven back to the catacombs. However as Francis Cardinal George has said:
I am (correctly) quoted as saying that I expected to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. What is omitted from the reports is a final phrase I added about the bishop who follows a possibly martyred bishop: 'His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.'
Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to repeal the 19th Amendment (the law that expanded our time-honored voting rights to include women). He had the right to do donate his money in that manner, but the people who worked for him and with him thought this was not cool. When they asked him about it, he refused to comment, or defend himself, or reverse his position or explain his position. That only added to the brouhaha and raised the very reasonable question as to how he was fit to lead if he was already sowing so much discord and making no effort to address the questions raised.
So he stepped down.
Pat, Brendan Eich was forced out of his job by a group of progressive fascists who believe that on one should hold views that are not identical to theirs.
Michael Haz, Inflammatory rhetoric ("progressive fascists") doesnt advance the discussion.
How is Eich's donation to pass Prop 8 materially different from one in 1920 that would try to strip your grandmother of her right to vote?
Would you comfortably work for someone who tried to take away women's or blacks' or gays' or jews' or immigrants' newly acquired rights, especially after he refused to explain his reasons?
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