Thursday, April 4, 2013

Mr. Gorbachev, Build Up This Wall!

Item:
Talking about the changing political landscape, former House speaker Newt Gingrich expressed concern today that religious Americans may soon face a “secular tyranny.”

“The great danger is that you’re going to see a real drive to outlaw and limit Christianity,” Gingrich said at a National Review breakfast briefing. “It’s okay to be Christian as long as you’re not really Christian. It’s a very serious problem.”

“You can’t actually have an adoption service that’s run by Catholics unless they’re willing to be not Catholic,” Gingrich remarked, alluding to the Catholic organizations that refuse to consider gay couples for adoptive parents and have had to close as a result.

“That should bother people,” Gingrich continued. “You’re now beginning to see a secular tyranny begin to set in that is very dangerous, and we need to have a national debate about it.”
Opening the door to more people to do more things: tyranny. See also libertarian conceptions of freedom.

23 comments:

fish said...

The great danger is that you’re going to see a real drive to outlaw and limit Christianity

If only...

Substance McGravitas said...

I, for one, would miss the chocolate bunnies.

Smut Clyde said...

as long as you’re not really Christian

Gingrich determining that other people are not real christians! (i.e. non-Dominationists who do not want to become an established religion)

I didn't see that coming.

mikey said...

For a bunch of douchebags who natter on endlessly about some vague concept they call "Freedom" or "Liberty", they are terribly unclear on the concept.

Freedom to discriminate against large groups of people is not freedom. Taking away other people's rights is not liberty...

anne said...

house of ..,i noted on my way home this evening that one of the polish /others .. around here by the pole and sled that you are familiar with ,is doing free vodka shots on fri night , now all know where "beauty "is going to be with marek, and the others from the news papers around here , of russia/russian etc, .. . , of eyes not prussian of blue like marek's , but of the ocean ..

Substance McGravitas said...

Drink like crazy.

anne said...

i was wondering what marek was trying to tell me last week in bennas in his good brok en eng lish when he did his usual stop in the midst of who ever he was interviewing for the paper ..to say "beauty "ag. , something of vod ka

anne said...

i think i'll see if donne roberts wants to join us

anne said...

and he'll play .. black magic wom. like never before

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

I, for one, would miss the chocolate bunnies.

Fear not, old chum, the chocolate fetuses for Gaybortion Day will be just as delicious!

..,i noted on my way home this evening that one of the polish /others .. around here by the pole and sled that you are familiar with ,is doing free vodka shots on fri night

I'm partial to Żubrówka vodka myself. Na zdrowie!

Anonymous said...

Atheists are continuing to take America down. For example, take the left-wing warmonger that they elected president.

tigris said...

We totally should've elected Bush/Cheney to a third term.

fish said...

I, for one, would miss the chocolate bunnies.

As long as there are still Cadbury Mini Eggs.

Hamish Mack said...

Iffen there was a secular state and religion banned, who would molest choir boys? Not sure that librals have thought this through.

El Manquécito said...

I suppose a good round of Tudor style confiscation is not in the cards then?

Smut Clyde said...

Tudor style confiscation

You'll have my black leather codpiece when you take it from my cold dead SHUT UP SMUT

anne said...

shhh ' comes in like a .. . , up, finding a way of letting my body 'gest the replend' of that.. came in ..last night of winogrona .. . and from., and a lovely swim vert of vodt ka , and europ' ,of the small but slow lovely of europe that is here now , something of europ' that i do not sense that any of you here .. of south of are aware of .. . , clearly smut likes wom en that are towering .. . , said the ship wave

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

We totally should've elected Bush/Cheney to a third term.

Hurrah for the lesser evil!
~

anne said...

i had a feeling that bald was trying to warn me about the rye here .. but some times even i ..the lone moving lovely gets too bottled up by others , of moh', let' it be a little in some way , of a will to live that could walk any wave of pain, to lesser .. .

anne said...

and of that different of .. zo' bie, .. em pire ,z r m ,from how , i could never deal with larger gatherings of , i am always in smaller ,of living ..in song , of characters not unlike glenn .. and myself , but now eu rope's wave new ag. , and the main of last nights swirl was a young man from argentina/ital. ,with his new york reminding of a polish mix wife in school again to teach at a high .. school leveling .. ,and he has gone back ag. to his hands on bicy. shop for the summer ..,and i was talking with him as well of making bikes in to norwegian sleds ag. .. by/for next wintering ihasa, and arpeggio

anne said...

perhaps big.. bald bast ard could help with las hooing my perfect teeth ,to go with me perfect hea d , with these lovely littl' blur la seews that came in a gather at the pharma .. said wonder , i need more bad

anne said...

and perhaps i will hold off on passing these norw. rolling pins to my nieces to take to the bay estate to make beach paper with , they might come in handy here for re surfacing the roof , said wave

anne said...

and soon , of jacobb/io z 's now flying disc, and a co paring of , to , my time in forest hill' here , of my balancing fine , of my throw of a disc go ld/tin,sil., near upper ca coll. , and the two lovely policing men ,tall very , and so high tec' by every measure .. coming by to ask if i was okay ,had my hysteral moth mother lied ag. ,in calling the cops ag. , to have them come to peg me with her ..down , .. i calmly replied , i'm fine now , thank you so much for coming , and caring , she has calmed down , said sane ,very .. .