Oppression and Tyranny

Forced to Celebrate Evil

The spiral of Unbelief into the void is ineluctable.  Getting the "right" to do evil is no longer enough.  Now anyone who refuses to join in celebrating that evil must be punished.

Imagine the following moral monstrosity: the SS had been busy raiding a neighbourhood in down-town Warsaw.  They went from house to house, arresting Jews, then lining them up before putting them on the cattle trucks.  Then they force all the remaining (non-Jewish) householders out on the street, ordering them to dance a jig and chant "death to the Jewish scum".  Anyone who refuses is summarily shot.

The depravity has grown so extensive and so perverse that to do evil is not enough. Everyone else must join in celebrating that evil--or else. 

Thus, it is not surprising that, overnight it seems, the people being targeted in the campaign of relentless homosexual hatred are those in the celebration industry--bakers, cake makers, photographers, and marriage celebrants.
  It is difficult to imagine a more harmless business than one which makes cakes, pastries, and other delectable food. But no--these people are in the celebration business and, like the Gentile neighbours in the Warsaw ghetto, they must either be made to rejoice in the evil, or themselves be metaphorically shot. 

A fundraising effort led by conservative radio host Dana Loesch on behalf of Memories Pizza of Walkerton, IN is up to $84,000 in one day.  The pizzeria was vaunted into the debate over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act after the owner told a local news station she would not cater a gay wedding, describing the exact discrimination critics fear the law will embolden.  [The news station had been polling "celebration businesses" as to whether they would participate in providing services to celebration homosexual "marriage". Ed.]

The pizzeria received furious reaction online, with its Yelp page destroyed, and was forced to close yesterday after threats.  “The news took it totally out of proportion,” owner Crystal O’Connor said on Loesch’s show. “They lied about it.”  O’Connor said her family was holed up in the home.

“It’s 2015, I can’t believe that we would be dealing with such persecution like this just because someone says they want to stand up for a tenet of their faith,” Loesch said. “God bless you for being fearless and for standing up for your faith.”

At last count, when the appeal for financial help ended, just under $850,000 dollars had been raised.  It seems as though plenty of people in the US still have the attitude that it's not OK to celebrate evil.

But, on the other side, those in the vanguard of the rush to the void have lost all sense of liberty and justice.  Everyone must be made to agree with them and condone their evil, or else.  And when they cannot win by discussion or argument, threats and intimidation become the order of the day--and when that fails, using the government to force acceptance of their perversion upon others is the next step.

Postscript: to add insult to injury, it's not people in general refusing to celebrate homosexuality that is the problem.  It's Christians refusing to rejoice in evil that's the problem.  This, from Patterico: 

Would Muslim-Owned Bakeries Bake A Wedding Cake For Ben And Steven?

Filed under: General — Dana @ 5:01 pm

[guest post by Dana]

So, the question of whether Muslim bakeries would bake wedding cakes for gays came up several times in the comments at the Indiana Pizza Place post.

Steven Crowder went to Dearborn to find out:

For these Muslim bakeries, the answer is “no”.

Conservative podcast host Steven Crowder posted hidden-camera video Thursday showing employees at several Muslim-owned bakeries in Dearborn, Michigan, declining his business or referring him to other shops when he asked for a wedding cake with the message “Ben and Steven forever.” Which was fine with Mr. Crowder. “I’m not even saying these Muslim bakeries shouldn’t have a right to do whatever they did — they absolutely should — and many more of them would than Christian bakeries,” he said in his podcast on the website Louder with Crowder.
His video makes a point that has long rankled the right: That Christian-owned shops have been targeted for legal action and derision for refusing to serve same-sex weddings even as gay-rights activists and media outlets ignore business owners of other faiths known for their conservative social views, notably Islam.

No word of the MSM trolling the bakeries in Dearborn, nor outraged social justice warriors crying DISCRIMINATION!
 
Because it’s Easter weekend, I guess.
–Dana