This from Ben Shapiro at Townhall (emphasis mine):
No, the gay rights movement and the broader American left celebrated the same-sex marriage decision in wild fashion because the decision established two fundamental notions: First, that government has replaced God in the moral pantheon of the United States; second, that the new god-government has the power to root out and destroy any God-based institutions, destroying the social capital and fabric that holds together the nation.
With God safely shunted to the side in favor of Justice Kennedy, the next step in the gay rights movement will be the smashing of idolators — namely, those who cling to their religion and church in spite of Justice Kennedy’s New New Testament. Leftists have already moved to ban nonprofit status for religious institutions that refuse to acknowledge same-sex marriages; leftists have already sued into oblivion religious business owners who refuse to participate in same-sex weddings. It will not stop there. Religious schools will be targeted. Then, so will homeschooling programs. The secular religion of the left has been set free to pursue its own crusade against the infidel.
Religious institutions were the key social glue binding Americans together; we trust one another because we share values, beliefs and social institutions with them. With all three of those elements being memory-holed by the government in favor of self-expression, social capital will disintegrate; our trust in each other will fall apart, and government will fill the gap. With this week’s judicial tyranny, leftists move one step closer to their ultimate goal, as expressed at the 2012 Democratic National Convention: “Government is the only thing we all belong to.” And that will be an ugly America indeed.
Back to King Nebuchadnezzar days. Yes folks, we now have an official religion established by the Supremes and will be guarded by the spear wielding (I was going to say “chucking” lest I run afoul of the Political Correctness police that can’t accept satire to save my life) PC barbarians at every opportunity. Yes, any kind of Biblical religion will be destroyed by the new High Priests of Secular Humanism that has no bounds or limiting principle because DIGNITY! EQUALITY! and other words stolen from previous socialist / communist / fascist regimes. And they will do it with a religious fervor that is only outrivaled by that of the Sierra Club and the other Watermelon Environmentalists.
And Ben is now wrong on the “Religious schools will be targeted” – that has already happened as a gay man has filed suit against a Catholic parochial school. Curious, though, how the homeschooling movement will be targeted – or will they go after parents of faith for having “unclean” thoughts and have DCYF haul away the kids because of the High Crime of “We don’t think like you”?
Ask yourselves – are we now in the beginning of the era of “re-education camps” that decades ago, when the Land of the Free was really free, that we used to deride countries like the Soviet Union, East Germany, Cambodia, Viet Nam, and Obama’s newest favorite country Cuba, actually had re-education camps to make you “right thinking”?
After all, both Hillary and Obama have made it quite clear that long standing religious beliefs must now be changed…
Land of the Free much?
