Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Masterpiece Baker Jack Phillips Is Up Against Yet Another Legal Complaint ~ This is crazy! The LGBT radicals just won’t tolerate dissent from their worldview. The Supreme Court ruled in Phillips’ favor last year. The state of Colorado dropped another case against Phillips in March. And now here we go again! ~
Attorneys for Autumn Scardina, a transgender woman, filed a complaint against Phillips in state court Wednesday. In 2017, Scardina ordered a cake from Phillips to celebrate her birthday and gender transition. Phillips declined, citing his Christian beliefs and Scardina filed a complaint with Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission.
In March, Attorney General Phil Weiser dropped the case filed on Scardina’s behalf. In exchange, Phillip’s attorneys agreed to end their own discrimination complaint against the state.
The truce gave Phillips a brief reprieve. By reviving the case on their own, Scardina and her attorneys hope to force the courts to decide whether Phillip’s action amounted to discrimination under Colorado law — without worrying about whether the state itself wants to pursue the issue.
“We simply want the law to be enforced,” said attorney Paula Greisen, who is representing Scardina. “Because if not, you allow a business to send a message: go ahead, refuse service to these people, it’s OK, when the citizens of Colorado have said it’s not.”
[BTW – Jack didn’t refuse service to anyone. He declined to use his talents to endorse something his faith precludes him from doing. But of course the Left always has to distort the truth to get their way.]
Climate Oops: National Park Begins Subtle Removal of “Gone by 2020” Signs After Glaciers Just Keep Not Being Gone ~ The climate just refuses to cooperate with the alarmists ~
Officials at Glacier National Park (GNP) have begun quietly removing and altering signs and government literature which told visitors that the Park’s glaciers were all expected to disappear by either 2020 or 2030.
In recent years the National Park Service prominently featured brochures, signs and films which boldly proclaimed that all glaciers at GNP were melting away rapidly. But now officials at GNP seem to be scrambling to hide or replace their previous hysterical claims while avoiding any notice to the public that the claims were inaccurate.
Swedish Bishop Claims to Have ‘More in Common with Muslims’ Than ‘Right-Wing Christians’ ~ 😀 I could have told her that! News Flash: she’s not a Christian ~
The first openly lesbian bishop in Sweden, Brunne has caused controversy in the past when she allocated Muslim prayer spaces in Swedish churches in 2015, demanding that crosses and other Christian symbols be removed as well. Brunne defended her decision comparing the spaces to multi-faith prayer rooms found in airports or hospitals.
Maybe Brunne can move here ➡ Somalis have Changed Minneapolis ~ Ilhan Omar country. There are now nearly 80,000 Somalis living in the Twin Cities metro area, and they aren’t exactly enriching the culture ~
I’m not sure what it would take for Minneapolitans to wake up and stop being so suicidal with their multiculturalism. Terrorism, arson, violent crime, murder, corruption, fraud, female oppression is apparently not enough.
In other news, former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor (the first Somali-American cop) was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison for the murder of 911 caller Justine Damond ~ NY Times’ Strange New Respect for Cops: Noor Conviction ‘Seen by Some as…Double Standard’ ~
When The New York Times’s hostility to police collides with the unyielding demands of solidarity and multiculturism, we get upside-down reporting like the kind that appeared in Saturday’s New York Times.
Automakers Tell Trump His Pollution Rules (rolling back Obama-era pollution regulations) Could Mean ‘Untenable’ Instability and Lower Profits ~ (This story is behind the NYT’s pay-wall, but the headline is enough.) We really are living in an alternative universe. Thirty years ago the Big Three were telling the government the exact same thing – about imposing CAFE standards! And here’s the thing – no one is stopping them from making cars that exceed government standards. Do they want to be over-regulated?
A Florida woman stabbed herself repeatedly because she’s ‘tired of living in Trump’s country ~ When TDS becomes a psychosis ~
“I’m tired of living in Trump’s country. I’m tired of Trump being president,” she reportedly told police. The report said the wounded woman admitted to stabbing herself for those reasons.
Veterans walk out of meeting with Ocasio-Cortez after she bashes US foreign policy ~ She may be the mainstreams’ socialist darling, but AOC isn’t exactly popular in her own district ~
“She knocks the country, she knocks the president. And that’s not what America is about,” said Silvio Mazzella, a Vietnam War vet and treasurer of Community Board 11.
Which Should Be Illegal: Sodomy or Christianity? (A Thought Experiment) ~ Two diametrically opposed worldviews cannot coexist for much longer ~
By pretending that sexual conduct or identity are fundamental liberties, we’re putting the full force of the government behind them. We’re saying that people or groups which oppose some sexual practices or identities do not “serve the public interest.” We’re making them, in a real way, enemies of the State.
“I took out $40K in student loans. It’s my responsibility to pay it back” ~ That one-in-a-million college grad (Quick – someone needs to hire this guy!) ~
Later this month the first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary will feature a long list of candidates vying for the nomination, and I expect every single one of them to pander to young voters like me, promising to pay off my college debt or just forgive it.
That’s an insult to me. I took out student loans. To not pay them back myself would be dishonest and immoral. Again, actions have consequences[…]
I gave my word that I would pay it back. It’s a matter of integrity.
Wow. Dare I point out – a Christian kid, at a Christian University.
3 Puerto Rico Senate officials charged in corruption scheme ~ Remember this next time Democrats whine about President Trump neglecting Puerto Rico after the hurricane (San Juan’s mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, is a corruptocrat too) ~
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Three officials with Puerto Rico’s Senate were arrested by FBI agents Thursday and later charged by the U.S. territory’s federal prosecutor with alleged corruption for a case involving a scheme to defraud the legislature using “ghost employees.” […]
The purported scheme involved the accused billing the Senate for professional services that were never provided.
Deer Collision Knocks High School Runner Out of First Half Marathon ~ Yikes! ~
[Traverse City, MI] The runners had just passed an aid station, when Joe recalled hearing those around him yell, “Deer!” The animal immediately ran into him, kicking Cecelia in her thigh before running off the course […]
The hit forced Cecelia DeWitt and her dad Joe to pull out of the race, but she’s already looking forward to her next shot at 13.1.
