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large portion of existing california religious schools dramatically changing the higher education landscape within the state although there might be a new baby later the old baby would be thrown with the bath water the impact of sb 1146 is asymmetrical because a majority that prefers a certain uniformity in higher education would be imposing its will at the cost of a minority and that real administrative cost on california religious colleges has been recognized in legislative analysis to be clear there are three different financial burdens religious colleges could potentially face loss of cal grant funding for their students penalties and costs arising from lawsuits and administrative costs associated with posting exemptions required by section 3 addressed further below along with this are burdens imposed by being among the dissenting minority on the wrong side of the law freedom of association at stake i believe religious freedom is closely tied to freedom of association in the case of sb 1146 what is at stake is the freedom to associate with a community that holds its members to self imposed standards at its best this is the freedom to come together to accomplish shared positive goals that could not be achieved otherwise in a pluralistic society we try not to second guess if we can the goals of other voluntary associations undue concern for what goes on within other freely formed groups results in repression the very thing that progressives profess to oppose if california were to impinge on individuals ability to freely associate this would diminish an essential liberty that has served americans well for 230 years suspicion or good will biola president barry corey said it well when he declared that biola does not support bullying and intends its space to be welcoming the question with sb 1146 is whether california will assume religious colleges to be acting in good faith as good will participants contributing to the common good or whether it will regard religious colleges as inherently suspect unfortunately section 3 of sb 1146 suggests the later that religious schools should bear the burden of being suspect this portion of the bill requires schools that receive exemptions from antidiscrimination measures to post this fact prominently on the campus and in correspondence with potential students progressives are rightly concerned with the stigmatization shunning and shaming of minorities but does this apply two ways in nathaniel hawthorne s the scarlet letter hester prynne is condemned to wear a scarlet letter a on her blouse to remind her community members that she was found guilty of the sin of adultery what the section 3 notifications amount to is a scarlet d intended to remind students parents and the rest of the world that certain religious schools are to be regarded suspiciously as discriminators if antidiscrimination has anything to do with ending stigmatization shunning and shame then section 3 makes sb 1146 s purported goal of antidiscrimination internally inconsistent it s an irony that some progressive activists might end up using sb 1146 as a puritanical tool of oppressing dissent and enforcing conformity but rather than assuming the worst of each other citizens in a pluralistic democratic society must extend the assumption of good will as much as reason would allow it takes two to tango if one side particularly the democratic majority remains inflexible then we will return to the historical state of confessionalism in 16 th and 17 th century europe this was a time when those subjects who could not affirm their rulers religious creed were forced into exile this is the antithesis of a liberal society in europe the divide was between protestants and catholics today the divide is between progressive ideological activists and those who dissent from their controversial orthodoxies biola and other california religious institutions seem to be responding with patience charity and civility in the face of what could otherwise be interpreted as divisive political action if there is any hope for fairness and justice it will not be fulfilled in legislating dissenting communities out of existence but by heeding the admonition come let us reason together photo credit janetvincent via foter com cc by nc nd share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under all posts apologetics tagged with biola university california christian apologetics discrimination education religious freedom sb 1146 tolerance trumpism is not conservatism march 1 2016 1 comment usa today reports on how thirty black students were ejected from a trump rally in valdosta georgia the night before super tuesday without knowing all the details it is safe to say that on its face the optics are disgraceful this feeds the narrative that trump is a strongman for bigots in recent weeks movement conservatives have intensified their opposition to trump famously national review withdrew its sponsorship from a gop debate in order to come out in print against the orange mogul trump makes it very easy for conservatives to disown him fewer than 100 words from the usa today article readily exemplify how trump has nothing to do with american conservatism during his remarks in valdosta trump said he s leading a movement i m just a messenger he said later trump said his whole life has been about making money but now i m going to be greedy for the united states as the audience roared i m going to take take take and we re going to become rich again karen clendenin 58 a victims advocate in the local district attorney s office said she was very impressed and that she ll vote for trump on tuesday in georgia s primary clendenin said she wore her trump t shirt monday even though she was a little embarrassed trump doesn t own his positions by saying i m just a messenger trump refuses to take responsibility for his own words and actions he is comfortable as a demagogue and opportunist but a coward when it comes to committing to ideas and people in the real world if nothing else american conservatives are loyal to ideas and institutions that have a past track record of serving the common good failure to own defend and advance these ideas and institutions is not conservative trump is a redistributionist i m going to be greedy for the united states is essentially the same promise a democrat makes to redistribute wealth by making college free erasing student debt or raising the minimum wage this is not the free market under the rule of law that reagan conservatives advocate trump is a one man lawyer employment agency conservatives despise how overly litigious america has become the conservative s bible about this is philip k howard s the death of common sense one major conservative plank for reforming healthcare is tort reform when i read that one trump s supporters is a legal victim s advocate i take this to mean ambulance chaser like the 2004 democratic vice presidential candidate john edwards the way progressives bring lawsuits political correctness re education and other vindictive instruments to bear on fellow americans is anathema to conservatism trump s constant threats to sue are much more at home with progressive tactics to silence and punish political enemies than with conservatism bringing it back to race opposition to immigration is populist protectionism not free market conservatism which embraces competition and invites the best and brightest to become part of the american fold whatever trumpism is it is not conservatism photo credit markahuna via imgur share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under all posts tagged with conservatism donald trump free market politics populism racism report on icelandic religious belief literally misleading january 23 2016 2 comments the washington post reports under the headline in this country literally no young christians believe that god created the earth the country is iceland so is it literally true god by any standard conceptual defintion just is the creator of the entire physical universe which includes the earth so whether a christian or any theist for that matter believes this through young earth creationism old earth creationism theistic evolution evolutionary creationism intelligent design natural theology or by logical inferences after reading the back of a cereal box she believes indeed that god created the earth for any theist the earth did not get the way it is today without at least two means first god s immediate creative act that brought the physical world into being out of literally nothing and second god s sovereign supervision over ordinary physical means attributed by virtually everyone to what are called the laws of nature this piece of reporting shows how major media can drastically downplay what christians actually think while in pursuit of the sexy narrative that traditional religious belief is in dramatic decline exemplifying the misleading pull of this narrative one graphic charts the rise of atheism in iceland but the two mutually exclusive responses plotted are religious believers and non religious where the latter includes atheists and non religious people like a cheap off brand hot dog vendor some editor has allowed this chart to puff up atheism with filler that includes agnostics and non religious people this probably counts many spiritual theists who for whatever reason don t self identify with a religious tradition so all told don t believe a headline when it says literally no young icelanders believe in creation photo credit travfotos via foter com cc by nc share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under all posts apologetics tagged with atheism christianity creationism iceland media bias news science democrats and identity politics dishonesty january 14 2016 leave a comment fox news is a venue more fit for exchanging sound bites than exchanging measured arguments yet there is value even in analyzing sound bites because those still should be backed by honesty and integrity over two consecutive nights on megyn kelly s the kelly file democratic national committee chair debbie wasserman schultz and then democratic strategist robert zimmerman dutifully dropped their d bombs diversity and discrimination to drive home a tired narrative that republicans are mired in a racist misogynistic and homophobic past whatever else those bombs were loaded with it wasn t honesty or integrity democrat zimmerman twice asserted that republicans were stuck in the 1950s but democrats seem to be mired in the 1960s for that was when equal pay for women was enacted by legislation under john f kennedy he s been dead for more than 50 years but democrats keep exploiting the senseless women s pay equality meme to keep doing so without substantiating evidence is politically dishonest and that dishonesty goes all the way up the chain to president barack obama and former secretary of state hillary clinton zimmerman also alleges republicans of wanting to discriminate against lgbt americans but this is just an empty smear when social conservatives are amply justified to support policies based on natural law and common sense the charge that they want to legislate jim crow animus against sexual minorities does not stick do republicans really have a problem with minorities generally they do have a disproportionate lack of support among minority voters but arguably that is more due to the stereotypes those voters hold of republicans than the substance of republican policies indeed when it comes to republican officeholders the problem vanishes for example susana martinez and nikki haley are both nonwhite female twice elected republican governors democrats really need a new playbook and contrary to what wasserman schultz said to megyn kelly haley has had a very sunny approval rating in south carolina making her one of the most popular governors sic in the country debbie wasserman schultz is emblematic of what s wrong with politics today she is a con woman whose rhetoric is totally disconnected from reality zimmerman and democrats right up through the president have this same disconnect to be sure they don t monopolize this problem to the exclusion of republicans inasmuch they blame immigrants for the econimic hardships of america s working class they partake in the disconnect too but democrats seem to be the masters of spewing identity politics nonsense http video foxnews com v 4703064148001 did dnc chair make sexist remarks about gov nikki haley playlist_id 928378949001 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x like loading filed under all posts tagged with debbie wasserman schultz democrats identity politics nikki haley politics republicans arguing about race and justice an apologist s perspective january 5 2016 1 comment intervarsity christian fellowship drew critical attention for a talk on racial justice delivered at urbana 15 its recent student missions conference after plenary speaker michelle higgins called out pro life activism and explained black lives matters to evangelicals intervarsity issued a clarifying statement many conservative christians struggle to understand where higgins message comes from but it is not a new one in the christian church or even for intervarsity what she said is important to understand because everyone should know and speak truth and act justly what higgins says most people will find things to agree with and disagree with in what higgins says in an online video of her talk she shares her personal story or her narrative for her this includes the brutal killing of a mixed race man by white authorities in 1837 not far from where higgins lives and the urbana conference is periodically held disappointed that evangelicals don t want to talk about racial justice in the wake of several high profile police killings of young black men higgins asserts that her fellow evangelicals have edited and blanked out parts of their own story she believes evangelicals have inherited a burden of white supremacy that says white is right higgins affirms that god alone gives people their dignity and that christians should give control of their narratives to him practically this means standing in solidarity with black lives matters rather than remaining comfortably indifferent finally she asserts that we have the means to end racist and classist oppression but we need the will to end it insight from an apologist as a mixed 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