Examiner.com Fires Christian Pastor, Says Content Not a Good Fit

Caffeinated Thoughts "Shawn Mathis has written over 300 articles in six years for Examiner.com as a “Christian Perspectives Examiner.”  On Wednesday he was fired.  In an email Mathis tells Caffeinated Thoughts, he was told, “”We appreciate the time, effort and consideration you put into this work, but we feel that your content is not the right fit for Examiner.com at this time.”

"Mathis is also the pastor of Providence Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Denver, CO and the author of Uniting Church and Family: Observations About the Current Family Crisis.

"Mathis was surprised by the email.  “Yesterday they had promoted me as a reliable news-source. My hits were going up the last few days. Bing cycled two of my articles on their news-feed. I have been a faithful writer for six years with not one complaint,” Mathis said on his Facebook profile.

"What changed?  Mathis said the firing came after his last five articles centered on the gay marriage debate." . . .

Mathis' last article, which was just before his firing:

Gay marriage: June 26, 2015, a day which will live in infamy

Thanks for the pay raise, Mr. President

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American silliness 7/5/2015

 

Reparations: The Next Liberal Thing?    "The level of overreaction in this country seems to have reached a fever pitch since the killing of nine black people in Charleston, SC by a highly disturbed young man.  First the calls for banning the Confederate flag began, followed by calls for the removal of statuary of anyone having anything to do with the Confederacy.  Louis Farrakhan has called for banning the American flag, and Malik Shabazz, the head of the New Black Panthers, has called for the killing of "slave masters."  The logical progression would seem to be that there will again be legislation introduced in Congress for reparations to be paid to black people for the enslavement of their ancestors."

“We’re here. We’re polygamists. Get used to it” . . . " Professor Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago, who argued in 2009 that polygamy must be allowed for the same reasons as same-sex marriage, as we detailed in “Polygamy would have to be permitted”." .


Weenies burn flag to protest cops, get attacked by bikers, need cops to save their as--s  . . . " The anarchists had announced on social media that they had planned to burn the flag in protest of NYPD policies, drawing a large group of flag-waving counterprotesters, including the bikers." . . .

 [VIDEO] Americans Don’t Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July  " Fortunately, there was an Italian vacationer who was able to answer some basic questions about American history. At least we know they’re teaching our history somewhere."

Obama in 4 Quotes by his favorite person: Barack Obama 

HuffPo: Bathroom Signs Are Sexist Since Women Aren’t Wearing Pants In Them 
Who thinks up these ideas?  Actually with the aid of social media, a throwaway line can become a campus movement.

 PUH-LEEZE: Check Out What Ben & Jerry’s is Doing to Gloat Over Gay Marriage
  . . . " It’s also that B & J and its namesake founders are big donors to anti-American, pan-Islamic foundations like the Tides Foundation. And, now, Ben & Jerry’s is even more in your face with its new pro-gay marriage celebratory ice cream."

Seattle Teens Get Birth Control at School ‘More Easily Than They Can Buy a Soda’

The Obama Administration Has Become Iran’s Attorney

 Once it became news that the Iranians cheated on the conversion, the Obama administration went to work retroactively rewriting the deal on Iran’s behalf.
With great fanfare last week the State Department reported that Iran had complied with that key condition of the interim agreement, significantly reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium – an accurate statement as long as one ignores Iran’s violations. Along with some of the people interviewed by Reuters, a leading non-proliferation think tank is bashing the Administration for trying to sweep the violations under the rug.

Hot Air

 

. . . "Some may say reports of Iranian violations are just a “neocon” effort to question the administration’s policy of sitting down with Iran, or that they should agree to separating the issues of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism and holding of American prisoners from the talks. Nonsense. Even those who support the talks must realize that what we are seeing here is that the president is so desperate for a deal that he will wish away Iranian malfeasance and risk a nuclear conflagration that has the potential to kill millions here in the United States and throughout the world."

Can My Neighbor Still Drive His General Lee? People Who Demand Confederate Flag Dumping Tell Me to Tolerate Muslim Hate

Debbie Schlussel

 

"As I’ve mentioned before, there’s a guy in my neighborhood who owns one of the few original “General Lee” cars driven on “The Dukes of Hazzard.” I wondered, this week, if he’ll be allowed to drive it around town, now that we’ve ascribed all kinds of evil to a flag, rather than a sick, murderous evildoer. After all, the car has a Confederate rebel flag on top of the cab. And then I remembered all of those mass murders of Blacks that occurred at the hands of those of us who saw the rebel flag while suffering through Jessica Simpson’s horrible “Dukes” movie (read my review) and those who watched the original “Hazzard” on TV in the ’70s and ’80s (I was not a fan of the show). “Gone With the Wind” features a Confederate flag, too. Should that be cinema non grata, too?"

Our Weasel Of The Week!

Watcher of Weasels    "Yes, once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all particularly slimy and despicable, but the votes are in and we have a unanimous winner…the envelope please…

 "Legal Surgeon, Amateur Legislator and Chief Justice John Roberts!"

. . . "You know, this was an interesting week for Justice Roberts. One day, he’s rewriting ObamaCare for the second time, clearly disregarding what the law said and substituting what he thought the law ought to say.

"A few days later he’s writing the minority opinion on same sex marriage, harshly criticizing the Court for – wait for it – legislating from the bench!" . . .

Catholic Bishop: ‘Our Nation Has Suffered a Loss of Virtue and Honor that Threatens Our Freedom’

CNS NEWS

 

"Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., delivered a homily on Sunday in which he said that the United States “has suffered a loss of virtue and honor that threatens our freedom with the decision of the Supreme Court” to declare same-sex marriage a “right.”

"Bishop Paprocki went on to assert that “the state has no moral authority to change what God has created.”

"Near the conclusion of his homily, the bishop rhetorically asked: “Why has God allowed these attacks on our faith and our Church to happen?

“ 'Why did He not answer our prayers for the protection of the true meaning of marriage in our country?” said the bishop. “The answer, I believe, is that we are being called to put God above all else, even above our nation and our country’s laws.”

"Here is the full text of the bishop’s homily:" . . .

Bill Whittle: Pin the Tale on the Donkey. Some political history on Republicans vs. Democrats

PJTV

The Obama Fourth of July tweet

Weasel Zippers

 

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Many comments and tweets on this post.  One such:

July 4 crowds ignore call to boycott Georgia park over Confederate flag

 

Yahoo News via Drudge   "STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (Reuters) - Fourth of July holidaymakers ignored a call to boycott Georgia's Stone Mountain Park, known as the "Confederate Rushmore," over its display of the contentious Confederate flag.

"Hundreds of people had staked out spots at the 3,200-acre (1,295-hectare) privately run park by noon on Saturday for nighttime laser and fireworks shows. They shrugged off heavy rain on the park's busiest day of the year as well as the boycott call.

"Democratic state Representative LaDawn Blackett Jones this week urged people to stay away from the park 10 miles (16 km) east of Atlanta because it flies three flags of the pro-slavery Confederacy alongside the U.S. and Georgia state flags.

"Bobbie Smith of Fitzgerald, Georgia, who was camping at Stone Mountain with her family, called the boycott call "just stupid."


“ 'This whole park is a Confederate memorial. If you don’t have the flag here, where on Earth would you put it?” she said.


"The Confederate flag from the 1861-65 U.S. Civil War has become a lightning rod for outrage after the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last month. The white suspect, Dylann Roof, had posed for photos with the Confederate battle flag." . . .  http://www.stonemountainpark.com/

DEMOCRATS: ENEMIES OF AMERICA– and the Conservatives Who Stupidly Help Them

Clash Daily  "Condi Rice was right to say we were not on a war footing just before 9/11. (We are still not on a war footing.)  Rice was Secretary of State in the Bush administration.  However, along with the President, she was wrong to call Islam a religion of peace.  That errant thinking is what prevents us from being on a war footing.  Authoritative Islam has waged war on the West for centuries.  One wonders when Westerners will wake up and get on a war footing: hopefully before it is too late.

"In a similar way, some American conservatives are not on a war footing in our fight against the Far Left, aka, the Democrat Party.  The Democrat Party is so radicalized it would repel FDR, Truman and JFK.   The Democrat Party is not the party of peace.  It has become the party of war, the party responsible for launching the culture war and all the escalations seen in the last sixty years, a war waged to destroy traditional Americanism." . . .  Read the full article

By Allan Erickson,  After college, Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in journalism. He then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Fourteen years ago he started his own recruitment company. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and live in Oregon. He is the author of "The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence," Tate Publishing, 2012.

Oregon Couple Who Refused To Bake Cake For Gay Wedding Now Slapped With Gag Order – They Can’t Say They Will “Continue To Stand Strong”

Downtrend

 

"Back in April, Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of “Sweet Cakes” in Oregon were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding.

"This was a violation of Oregon State law, which bans same-sex discrimination. The fine bankrupted the couple and they have since closed their doors.

"But because they believed their First Amendment rights were in jeopardy – specifically the right to assert their religious beliefs by not participating in a gay wedding – they wanted to continue to fight in court.

"During a media interview about their continued legal struggle, Aaron Klein said: “The fight is not over. We will continue to stand strong.”

"Apparently, by uttering that statement, Aaron Klein has again broken Oregon law and a bureaucrat has slapped a “cease and desist” order against him for making similar statements.

"The state law bans people from even saying or suggesting that they intend to discriminate against anyone.

"TruthRevolt is reporting that Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ordered the couple to stop speaking about their objections to the case." . . .

Is it fair to say this nation fought a revolution over less than this?