When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Thursday, February 7, 2019
T. R. CLANCY - WAR ON MICHIGAN'S CHRISTIAN ADOPTION AGENCIES BY FASCIST A.C.L.U.
The War on Michigan's Christian Adoption Agencies Enters a New Phase
As discussed here last July, Michigan's Christian adoption agencies have been deliberately targeted by the ACLU in a federal lawsuit accusing them of discrimination for declining to place children with same-sex couples on religious grounds. In 2015, state lawmakers foreseeing this sort of thing passed Public Act 53, prohibiting state and local agencies from forcing faith-based agencies to provide services "that conflict with the child placing agency's sincerely held religious beliefs." Regardless, the lawsuit, Dumont v. Lyon, seeks a declaration that the state's practice of contracting with these agencies violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments and demands an order prohibiting Michigan from entering into contracts with religious agencies that don't believe in placing kids with same-sex couples. For Christian agencies, the choice will be either to "give up their beliefs or close their doors." As described in a friend of the court brief submitted in Dumont by the Alliance Defending Freedom, rather than violate their beliefs about marriage, Christian adoption agencies had to shut down in Boston; San Francisco; Washington, D.C.; and Illinois.
It looks as if Michigan is next.
Because the two named defendants in the case are the directors of state agencies, it falls to the Michigan Attorney General's Office to defend the case and the statute. But Michigan's newly elected attorney general, Dana Nessel, has no intention of defending the statute, the only purpose of which, she stated incorrectly during her campaign, "is to discriminate against people." A.G. Nessel lost no time obtaining a stay of the case from the court so she can conduct settlement negotiations with the plaintiffs on behalf of "[o]ur client agency." Seeing as she and the plaintiffs share the same point of view, the negotiations should go smoothly.
Nessel was lead attorney in one of the lawsuits to redefine marriage, DeBoer v. Snyder, that led up to the Supreme Court's nationally imposing a new definition of marriage including same-sex couples in the Obergefell decision. She is also, as the media never tire of repeating, openly gay. Not that being a lesbian disqualifies her from being attorney general of Michigan, which is why I didn't bring it up in the opening paragraph. I have no doubt there are qualified lesbian attorneys who understand that religious liberty is a right guaranteed under both the federal and state constitutions. (Michigan's constitution guarantees that "[t]he civil and political rights, privileges and capacities of no person shall be diminished or enlarged on account of his religious belief.") I just don't believe that Nessel is one of them.
She's also withdrawn the state from eight other lawsuits in which her predecessor A.G. joined several other states in filing amicus briefs – in lawsuits dealing with abortion, LGBT rights, and religious freedom. In a statement explaining her move, Nessel says she won't use her office "to undermine some of the most important values in our state, including those involving reproductive rights and the separation of church and state." By withdrawing from these suits, she furthers Michigan's "most important values" by refusing to help defend a Kentucky law "requiring a doctor to perform an ultrasound before an abortion" and dropping support for "an Ohio law that criminalized abortions performed because of a fetal indication of Down syndrome." Because liberals define "separation of church and state" to mean "protecting the public square from every vestige of Judeo-Christian beliefs," Nessel's reversals put Michigan's citizens on the same side as those demanding the removal of "a Latin cross" from "the Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, seal and flag," and the bigots trying to force the U.S House chaplain to permit an atheist to deliver an invocation on the floor of the House.
Nessel's devoted fan, Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson, assured readers before the election that "Dana Nessel is not a bigot." What he meant is that she isn't anti-male, in spite of her campaign ad touting that she doesn't have a penis. But Dickerson's concept of bigotry may be limited to animus based on the approved categories of race and gender identity. It may never occur to him there's such a thing as religious bigotry, except against Muslims.
Nessel's use of her office to hack down the religious freedom of Christian adoption agencies – when she and the ACLU know perfectly well that it will drastically reduce adoption opportunities for the children they pretend to care about – reveals a burning intolerance that sure looks a lot like bigotry. It's the kind of bigotry that won't rest until the Little Sisters of the Poor are forced to pay for contraceptives, or that sees a MAGA hat and wants a high school burned down with its students inside. It's the kind of bigotry that's more and more welcome all the time in today's Democratic Party.
T.R. Clancy looks at the world from Dearborn, Michigan. You can email him at trclancy@yahoo.com.
ABORTION KILLS…. the innocent!
PLANNED PARENTHOOD:
America’s baby murdering factories…. Your tax dollars at work
Dr. Leah Torres, an OB/GYN in Salt Lake City, Utah, said that when she performs certain abortions she cuts the vocal cord of the baby so "there's really no opportunity" for the child to scream. She also described herself as a "uterus ripper outer" because she performs hysterectomies.
DOES ANY ONE KNOW WHY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS FOR TAX-PAYER ABORTION AND YET INVITES HORDES OF PREGNANT MEXICAN WOMEN TO JUMP OUR BORDERS AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES FOR WELFARE???
CALIFORNIA HANDS BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO INVADE AND BREED ANCHOR BABIES… LA RAZA WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION…. and yet…..
Planned Parenthood executives and supporters were on Capitol Hill this week lobbying lawmakers to protect the millions of dollars the nation’s largest abortion provider gets from taxpayers every year and to announce nationwide “speak-outs” during the upcoming congressional recesses.
Senate Democrats – led by Washington Sen. Patty Murray – blocked a bill that would require babies born alive during abortion to receive reasonable medical care and transport to a hospital.
Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) to protect babies who have survived failed abortions. Sasse went to the floor of the Senate Monday to ask his colleagues to pass the bill by unanimous consent, but Democrats objected.
Referencing the recent firestorm created by the Virginia bill known as the Repeal Act, introduced by Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran and supported by Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam, Sasse said:
This place fancies itself the world’s greatest deliberative body, but we would be deceiving ourselves if we ignored the biggest debate that’s been happening in America over the last 36 hours. A public elected official — the Governor of one of the 50 states — has been defending a practice that is morally repugnant. The Governor of Virginia has been defending a practice that is repugnant to civilized people across the entire world.
“Senate Democrats had the chance today to prove they are not the party of infanticide, and instead they doubled down on extremism,” said Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) President Marjorie Dannenfelser after Democrats blocked the bill. “The Democratic Party’s agenda of abortion on demand through birth and even beyond is radically out of step with the standards of decency the overwhelming majority of Americans expect from their leaders.”
“We urge the Senate to bring the bill to the floor for a recorded vote so Americans can know where each senator stands, and we urge its passage,” Dannenfelser added. “It’s time to get this bill swiftly to the President’s desk for his signature.”
Proud to co-sponsor @SenSasse’s bill to protect precious newborn lives. I urge my Senate colleagues to take a stand for the sanctity of life & to take swift action to pass this bill. --> http://bit.ly/2D2nttQ
The Born-Alive Act states that Congress acknowledges an “infant” born alive during a failed abortion “is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws.”
“Any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care,” the legislation continues.
Under the bill, health care providers who fail to provide medical care to an infant born alive after abortion can be fined or imprisoned for up to five years, or both.
According to the Born-Alive Act, the intentional killing of an infant born alive after abortion “shall be punished as … intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being.”
Jill Stanek, a former nurse who witnessed late-term babies born alive during abortion procedures and left to die, said, “It is appalling to watch Democrat senators argue against this compassionate bill.”
“Pleading ignorance is not an option especially in the wake of efforts in New York and Virginia to legalize infanticide,” she said. “Everyone should be able to agree on equal protection under the law for these children.”
Just prior to the controversy over the Virginia bill – which would allow abortion even moments before birth – New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law that denies “personhood” to unborn babies. Under the law, violence against an unborn child during a homicide is no longer criminally punishable.
Now, Democrats in Rhode Island and Vermont have also proposed bills that would strip most restrictions on abortion and declare the procedure a “fundamental right.”
Tom McClusky, president of March for Life Action, said that in Sasse’s appeal for unanimous consent for the Born-Alive Act, Murray, representing Senate Democrats, “chose to stand up in favor of infanticide and the abortion lobby.”
“This pro-death mentality is the same one that has recently moved some lawmakers to propose extremely permissive late term abortion bills in states like New York and Virginia,” he said.
A recent Marist poll found 75 percent of Americans want substantial restrictions on abortion, including 60 percent of Democrats and 61 percent of those who identify as “pro-choice.”
“We call on Senate Majority Leader McConnell to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to a floor vote so that constituents know exactly where their elected officials stand on protecting the fundamental right to life,” McClusky added.
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