Comments on: Which Side Are You On?

By: Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:52:15 +0000

'Thy Kingdom Come' by Randall Balmer (2006) was written to forward the premise that the Moral Majority began due to opposition to the "forced" desegregation of Bob Jones University, and not due to Roe v Wade.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:40:54 +0000

Tommy, thanks for the source.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:09:15 +0000

Liberty University was founded in 1971 as Lynchburg Baptist College and was an adjunct to Lynchburg Christian Academy which was built in 1967. The News reported in 1967, "a non-profit, non-stock Lynchburg organization has announced plans to build a private school for white students on land in the Evergreen Farms area."

By: werdna

werdna — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:29:29 +0000

Timothy-Perhaps Tommy was thinking of Bob Jones University, rather than Liberty, at least as far as having a history of racial discrimination.

By: Timothy Kincaid

Timothy Kincaid — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:56:29 +0000

Tommy,

You’re making some interesting claims about Liberty University but I don’t think they are accurate. Please provide a source.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:39:38 +0000

Now my question (or rather questions) for Mr. LaBarbera is this:

Did you know that Liberty University was started to be a whites only school? Did you know the moral majority was founded because Jimmy Carter stripped segregationist “Christian” schools like Liberty University of their tax exempt status? Would you be intellectually honest and describe this as a “zero-sum-game conflict” between race-based “rights” and religious freedom? Do Americans (and not just religious Americans) have a fundamental right to oppose black people based on their moral/philosophical beliefs — or not, in your view?

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:07:43 +0000

And crazy rears it’s head…

(inc. the New Mex. photog. case)

You do realize there is a difference between a person and a business?

By: Audrey the Liberal

Audrey the Liberal — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:43:42 +0000

Hey, look everybody, it’s ‘Porno Pete’. “Hi ‘Porno Pete’”.

By: Richard Rush

Richard Rush — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:54:20 +0000

Oh, Peter, you really should seek professional help.
You clearly suffer from GOD (Gay Obsession Disorder). Symptoms include debilitating irrational fear and loathing of gayness, and paralyzing paranoia. Those symptoms are normally coupled with delusions of superiority that include the assumption of entitlement to have absolute authority over the lives of others in every detail, and a compulsion to persecute those who dare to resist.

Anyone should recognize that they are in dire need of professional help when Glenn Beck is not paranoid enough for them.

By: Jason D

Jason D — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:03:47 +0000

“Do Americans (and not just religious Americans) have a fundamental right to oppose homosexuality based on their moral/philosophical beliefs — or not, in your view?”

They have the right to be opposed to whatever they wish to be opposed to, however if they wish to express that opposition by violating laws, the constitution or use the government to punish and oppress those they disagree with then they have crossed the line.

Let’s ask YOU a Question Pete.
Your religion opposes premarital sex, right? Yet it’s legal. At some point a Christian parent has to explain to their children that while this is legal, it’s not moral according to their family’s faith. In other words, they have to explain that there are Man’s Laws and God’s Laws and they don’t always overlap. Similarly a Kosher Jewish parent has to explain that a Ham & Cheese sandwich is against their faith, but perfectly legal. Now we don’t see Hebrews declaring that allowing people to make, sell, and eat ham and cheese violates their rights because they have to have conversations with their children…yet somehow, you think that homosexuality can’t just be part of the “it’s legal, but we’re against it” talk. Somehow that’s a violation, but explaining that things like gambling, drinking, and premarital sex are legal but against your faith isn’t a violation. How’s that work?