Confronting Left Wing Intimidation

Published August 16, 2012 in the Lynchburg Ledger

By Bill Wheaton

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Christians and Christian values are coming under increasing attack these days.  Now joining the fundamentalist Muslims are the homosexual activists and their left-wing supporters.  Both groups are employing the very same tactic to silence the speech of Christian conservatives, intimidation.

If you criticize Islam or its founder Mohammad, you are very apt to be criticized by fundamentalist Muslims.  If you point out that the god of Islam is not the God of the Bible, but a false god, you are likely to be threatened, and in some parts of the world, you will be killed.

The homosexual activists and their radical supporters are using the very same tactic as we recently witnessed in the Chick-fil-A issue.  When Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy was asked his personal opinion on the sanctity of marriage, he stated the Biblical position that marriage is between one man and one woman.   

That is not only the Biblical position, but it is the American position.  In every state where the voters were asked to choose, they have chosen to reject homosexual marriage overwhelmingly.  In states with homosexual marriage, it has either been imposed by liberal courts or liberal legislatures.

But this didn’t stop the homosexual activists from calling for a boycott of Chick-fil-A.  They were joined by radical left-wing politicians who actually threatened to bar Chick-fil-A from doing business in their cities.  That is completely un-American, but that is who these liberals are.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the restaurant chain was not welcome in that city because it does not share “Chicago values.”   What values would that be? 

It was recently reported that within a one year period in Chicago, there were 246 homicides.   In that same period in Afghanistan, there were 145 combat deaths.  The war being waged on the Taliban and al-Qaeda pale in comparison to the war being waged on the streets of Chicago.  Is that the “Chicago values” the mayor is referring to?

Emanuel recently welcomed Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to Chicago.  So perhaps the “Chicago values” means that a vile anti-Semite like Farrakhan is acceptable where a Christian businessman expressing his personal religious beliefs is not.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino also chimed in saying, “Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston.”  That is simply amazing since the seeds of the American Revolution of 1776 were planted right there in Boston. 

Jerald C. Brauer, Professor of the History of Christianity at the Divinity School, The University of Chicago wrote, “Religion was one of the premier forces that brought the colonies into being and provided them with a set of symbols, beliefs, and values which undergirded their society. In at least two respects religion fed directly into the Revolution of heart and mind that preceded the rebellion. Puritanism created the center out of which New England society lived. The symbols, values, and beliefs that comprised that center contained two elements that were always to some degree peripheral, Crown and Parliament. As history unfolded, New Englanders gradually brought these peripheral elements under heavy attack from the center itself so that Crown and Parliament were viewed as detrimental to the central values of covenant, consent, the rule of fundamental law, the structure of New England’s organic society, and the liberties of its inhabitants. Thus Puritanism was a major force in engendering a revolution in attitude toward Crown and Parliament.”

Our Declaration of Independence is a list of complaints against the British Crown, every one of which was first preached from a New England pulpit before the fight for independence began.  If Menino was mayor in colonial Boston, we would likely still be British subjects. 
And what about the “Boston values” under Menino?  On a scale of 1 to 100, where 100 is the safest place to live and 1 the most unsafe, Boston scores an 11. 

Menino. like Chicago’s Emanuel, seem much more comfortable with Muslims than Christians.  Menino recently approved a permit which allowed the City of Boston to sell land below market value for the construction of a mosque.  The Islamic society of Boston has strong ties with radical imam Yusef al-Qaradawi.  This is somewhat ironic as not only does al-Qaradawi defends suicide bombing, but believes homosexuals should be burned or stoned to death.

In response to the outrageous statements by Emanuel, Menino and countless others, hundreds of thousands of Christians and non-Christians alike who believe in the concept of free speech turned out
on August 1^st at Chick-fil-A all over the country to show their support.   I was one of them, as was my pastor.   The left unsuccessfully tried to spin this as an act of hate where the only hate exhibited was from the left.  At least one Chick-fil-A was vandalized by the left.

All the hate and activism is on the left.  At least two prominent businesses have taken activist positions when it comes to promoting the homosexual agenda.  They are Home Depot and Target.

The American Family Association reports, “For several years, The Home Depot has given its financial and corporate support to open displays of homosexual activism on main streets in America's towns.

“Rather than remain neutral in the culture war, The Home Depot has chosen to sponsor and participate in numerous gay pride parades and festivals. Most grievous is The Home Depot's deliberately exposing small children to lascivious displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers, which are a common occurrence at these events.”

Target is selling a line of pro-homosexual merchandise, and they promised to “donate 100% of the purchase price to the Family Equality Council, a revolting outfit devoted to perverting and destroying the concept of family and subjecting children to sexual exploitation in homosexual marriages,” according to a news article from Free Republic.

I have been boycotting Home Depot ever since they took their pro-homosexual stance a couple of years ago and I have avoided Target ever since they banned Santa Claus some years back.

I refuse to patronize a business which supports the radical left-wing agenda which I oppose, and you should also.  It makes no sense to financially support companies which support values we oppose.

One final company to avoid is Progressive Insurance. Progressive chairman Peter Lewis had donated millions to left wing causes.  He donated at lease $25 million to the ACLU since 2001.   A September 17, 2010 opinion article in the Wall Street Journal said, "The progressive left has spent the better part of a decade building an archipelago of tightly linked third-party groups: MoveOn.org, Democracy Alliance, the Center for American Progress, their spinoffs and dozens of others. Bankrolled in large part by billionaires like George Soros and Peter Lewis, and along with more traditional institutions like organized labor and the environmental lobby, these organizations are effectively a shadow party that operates outside the ambit of the Democratic Party."

Bill Wheaton lives in Concord, Virginia.  Recent columns are available at billwheaton.blogspot.com.  His email address is bwheaton@moreinformation.net.