“How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority!”
— Leonard H. Robbins
A florist in Washington State won’t provide floral arrangements for a gay wedding, citing her “relationship with Jesus Christ.” In response, the state’s attorney general has slapped a $2000 consumer protection lawsuit against the lady, alleging a violation of the state’s antidiscrimination laws. And the American Civil Liberties Union has threatened to weigh in with lawsuit on behalf of the gay couple that was refused service.
A simple case of discrimination? Think again.
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…the heat over the original intent of the 2nd Amendment and its relevance to life in 21st Century America has not cooled. Public debate over guns, gun ownership and gun control, when it occurs, rarely approaches rational…
On the last day of the year 999 A.D., old St. Peter’s basilica in Rome was packed with panicky worshippers, convinced that the world would end on the stroke of midnight. Many had given away all their possessions to the poor. Many had spent weeks doing final penance for their sins. Many had journeyed to Rome in sackcloth and ashes in order to meet God and his angels within the holy precincts of St. Peter’s.
American pastor David Dykes was just in Uganda to urge passage of a new law in that country designed to suppress homosexuality. Homosexual acts are already punishable in Uganda by jail terms of up to 14 years, but this new measure would allow the imposition of life sentences. (An earlier draft would have subjected gays to the death penalty.) The measure would also vastly enlarge the range of prohibited acts, making it a crime to “promote” gay rights, to “fund or sponsor homosexuality” or to “abet” homosexuality. Moreover, if this bill becomes law, any Ugandan who becomes aware of a homosexual act being committed, or aware that a particular person is homosexual, is obliged to so inform the police within 24 hours or be liable to a fine or imprisonment.
Wagner’s Dead Elephant
At the same time, to say that Wagner was an anti-Semite, and to say no more than that, is too simple. It is too simple because Wagner was very much a self-contradictory genius, and his contradictions extended to his attitude toward Jewish people.
In other words, Wagner was an anti-Semite, but… And the but was not inconsequential.
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