“You know why there’s a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.” - Rush Limbaugh
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” - Margaret Thatcher
(both quotes shamelessly stolen from “Uncommon Show“, the internet radio show that showcases a “Christian worldview with a double shot of espresso” - http://www.uncommonshow.com)
1) Fire NPR
National Public Radio’s dismissal of Juan Williams is a powerful indictment of NPR’s practices and corporate culture. Small wonder voices are once again calling for the federal government to defund NPR—which gets 16% of its budget from tax payers. The Heritage Foundation has long called for such defunding.
A veteran journalist, Williams is a liberal with whom I disagree more often than not. His integrity, his bravery, his refusal to be intimidated by peer pressure cannot be doubted, however. He has written thoughtful books on the civil rights movement and also dared speak to the African-American community about how dysfunctional family structures and devaluation of education and morality can produce and perpetuate crime and poverty. His commitment to improving opportunities for minorities even led him to agree to narrate a Heritage Foundation documentary on the demise of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program.
He was fired last night because of comments he made on the Bill O’Reilly show on Fox News. He told O’Reilly on Monday’s show how he feels when he’s on a plane:
“I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
But Williams was obviously saying one must get beyond one’s very reasonable fears, as he also said:
If you said Timothy McVeigh, the Atlanta bomber, these people who are protesting against homosexuality at military funerals, very obnoxious, you don’t say first and foremost, we got a problem with Christians. That’s crazy.
And this:
“But I’m saying, we don’t want in America, people to have their rights violated to be attacked on the street because they heard a rhetoric from Bill O’Reilly and they act crazy.”
So how could NPR consider Williams’ comments a firable offense?
Well, NPR has come under withering criticism from leftist flanks, such as Media Matters, for allowing a Fox News Commentator to stay on air. And in fact, it never sat well with NPR’s own staff that Williams appeared regularly on Fox, as we can see from this Ombudsman report from Feb. 11, 2009.
See: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/10/21/fire-npr/
1a) Rich Galen
On Juan Williams
Juan Williams was fired from National Public Radio for a comment he made on Fox (with whom he has also had a long-term contract) in which he said on the Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor:
"I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
NPR, which admitted its executives were "uncomfortable" with Williams' appearances on Fox, issued this statement:
"His remarks on The O'Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."
NPR's own reporting of the controversy had this:
"Williams' presence on the largely conservative and often contentious prime-time talk shows of Fox News has long been a sore point with NPR News executives."
See: http://townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2010/10/22/on_juan_williams
2) Glenn Beck: Who Is Organizing Against Free Speech?
GLENN BECK, HOST: Welcome to "The Glenn Beck Program."
When you think of freedom of speech, what does it mean to you? Is it all speech? Is it everything but hate speech? How about everything but irrational speech?
Here is Arianna Huffington. She said this and I thought this was amazing. She said this about me. By the way, her investigative arm over at The Huffington Post is funded by George Soros and the Tides Foundation (emphasis mine).
Here she is about me. Here she — now, here she is about me:
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, HUFFINGTON POST: There is something that we need to really pay attention to with Glenn Beck. We cannot just dismiss him, because the truth of the matter is that there is a good reason why we have an exemption to free speech protected by the First Amendment.
BECK: There is an exception for me. Apparently, I didn't know that. Huh!
Now, here she is just a couple days ago responding to comments of Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She made a comment and she used the word "tyrant" in describing Obama and the Democrats.
Here again is Arianna Huffington on apparently another thing in the First Amendment:
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
HUFFINGTON: It's really strange. It's beyond strange that you have the wife of a Supreme Court justice, not being against Obama, I can understand that, that's her legitimate right, but saying utterly irrational things about Obama. I mean, calling the president a "tyrant" is truly beyond the realm of what is real. And that's really what we need to be addressing. Not disagreement, not opposition, but just irrationality.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But she has the right to do it?
HUFFINGTON: Well, nobody should put her in jail if that's what your question is.
(LAUGHTER)
(END AUDIO CLIP)
BECK: No one is talking about jail. That would be crazy! Right, Arianna?
All the progressives — they're trying to step in and regulate and protect us little people from hearing something that might be irrational, or uncomfortable. Oh, oh, oh. Juan Williams isn't going to say anything, is he?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'll choose more speech over less speech. I'll choose freedom of speech.
See: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,601982,00.html
3) Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walk off The View because Bill O’Reilly says Muslims killed Americans
"Today on The View, the ladies addressed the shootout I had with them last Thursday when I said that building a mosque near Ground Zero is inappropriate because Muslims killed us there. That caused Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar to walk off the set. Of course, what I said is absolutely true, but is insensitive to some. In a perfect world, you always say 'Muslim terrorists' killed us, but I thought that was common knowledge. Barbara Walters today said the nation is very angry, and therefore commentators must watch the rhetoric. Okay, but my question to Ms. Walters is this: Why is America so angry? One answer is that Americans are fed up with politically correct nonsense. There is a Muslim problem in the world, and if The View ladies won't acknowledge that, that's their problem. Russia, China, the Philippines, and many nations in Africa are fighting Muslim insurrections. The Muslim threat to the world involves nations and millions of people, yet the left in America will not face that fact. Here in the USA we're lucky - the vast majority of American Muslims are good citizens who deplore the extreme actions in the Muslim world. But the cold truth is that jihad, aided and abetted by some Muslim nations, is the biggest threat on the planet. I have had enough of the politically correct nonsense, and I condemn the far-left fanatics who label people with whom they disagree 'bigots.' Finally, wherever I went this weekend people were high-fiving me. Americans are simply fed up with politicians and media people denying the obvious - there is a dangerous problem in the Muslim world, and once again I call for all peace-loving Muslims to join the United States and other conscientious nations to fight the jihadists and defeat radical Islam."
See: http://www.billoreilly.com/show?action=viewTVShow&showID=2715#1
And, one of these liberals (apparently) keyed my car last weekend in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s, while I was buying my groceries, right down the middle of my hatchback on my PT Cruiser, between my “Don’t Tread on Me” and “Randy Hultgren for Congress” bumper stickers. Yes, free speech for them, but not for me.
4) Obama Continues to Omit ‘Creator’ From Declaration of Independence
During a speech Monday, President Barack Obama once again omitted the Declaration of Independence‘s mention of man’s “Creator” as the source of his “unalienable rights.” While delivering remarks at a dinner fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) in Rockville, Md., President Obama spoke about what he called the “essence” of the upcoming midterm election:
As wonderful as the land is here in the United States, as much as we have been blessed by the bounty of this magnificent continent that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, what makes this place special is not something physical. It has to do with this idea that was started by 13 colonies that decided to throw off the yoke of an empire, and said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that each of us are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
The sole mention of man‘s Creator in Obama’s remarks came at the end when he thanked the audience and said, “God bless you.”
This isn’t the first time the president has selectively edited the Declaration in not acknowledging the role of God in bestowing these rights upon man. During a Sept. 15 speech before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Annual Awards Gala, the president omitted the religious reference, but the White House dismissed criticism, saying that Obama “went off script and adlibbed when he made that mistake.” But just a week later, the President made the exact same “mistake” speaking during another fundraiser, this time in New York City.
When asked why the president did not use the words “endowed by their Creator” in his Monday speech, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday, “I can assure you the president believes in the Declaration of Independence.”
No, he doesn’t.
See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-continues-to-omit-creator-from-declaration-of-independence/
5) Obama: ‘Scared’ Americans Aren’t Thinking ‘Clearly’
In his remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in Massachusetts Saturday evening, President Barack Obama said that Americans’ fear and frustration” are to blame for an intensely competitive midterm election season favoring Republican candidates.
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we‘re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared,” Obama said Saturday evening in remarks at a small Democratic fundraiser Saturday evening. “And the country’s scared.”
No, Mr. President, Americans are thinking more clearly than they have in a long time. And they’re scared OF YOU.
See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-americans-aren%25E2%2580%2599t-thinking-clearly/
6) It’s Official: Obama Has Now Borrowed $3 Trillion
(CNSNews.com) - It's official: The Obama administration has now borrowed $3 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
It took from 1776, when the United States became an independent country, until 1990, the year after the Berlin Wall fell signaling victory in the Cold War, for the federal government to accumulate a total of $3 trillion in debt, according to the Treasury Department. It only took from Jan. 20, 2009, the day President Barack Obama was inaugurated, until Oct. 15, 2010, for the Obama administration to add $3 trillion to the federal debt.
The overall debt of the federal government, according to the Treasury Department, is now $13.666 trillion.
See: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/it-s-official-obama-has-now-borrowed-3-t
7) New Lame Duck Threat to Bailout Union Pensions (this is a few weeks old, but worth being alarmed about…)
Democrats in the Senate on Thursday held a recess hearing covering a taxpayer bailout of union pensions and a plan to seize private 401(k) plans to more "fairly" distribute taxpayer-funded pensions to everyone.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee heard from hand-picked witnesses advocating the infamous "Guaranteed Retirement Account" (GRA) authored by Theresa Guilarducci.
(You can find the blistering interview with Guilarducci by radio talk show host Mark Levin in 2007 at the link).
In a nutshell, under the GRA system government would seize private 401(k) accounts, setting up an additional 5% mandatory payroll tax to dole out a "fair" pension to everyone using that confiscated money coupled with the mandated contributions. This would, of course, be a sister government ponzi scheme working in tandem with Social Security, the primary purpose being to give big government politicians additional taxpayer funds to raid to pay for their out-of-control spending.
See: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39336
8) Pentagon trying to change culture to allow gays
SAN DIEGO – Beyond the courtroom arguments about "disrupting the troops" and "unit cohesion" are the nitty gritty details behind the Pentagon's fight to go slow on allowing openly gay troops.
Will straight and gay troops have to shower next to one another? Will the military have to provide benefits to gay partners, and can it afford to? And the biggest question of all: Will gays be harassed or intimidated?
No, silly lame stream media, that is NOT the biggest question. The biggest question is whether or not our military will retain the ability to be effective in battle in light of this asinine new policy.
Seeking to suspend or overturn U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips' ruling leaves the administration arguing against its own policy goals and against the majority opinion among the Democratic base most likely to turn out for midterm elections next month.
Allowing the courts to steer the lifting of the ban leaves military leaders feeling rushed and misled. Top military officials thought they had bought time to prepare the uniformed forces, spouses, families and veterans for openly gay service.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101020/ap_on_re_us/us_gays_in_military
9) About face: VFW fires PAC board over Democratic endorsements
The Veterans of Foreign Wars PAC, which endorsed an unbelievable slate of left-wing candidates this month (including Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barbara Boxer), has been shut down by the VFW leadership, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This doesn’t appear to be anything meaningless or mealy-mouthed either. On Friday, the VFW Commander-in-Chief removed all 11 members of the VFW-PAC board after they refused to rescind their endorsements. He also issued a memo stating that he will move to dissolve the PAC at the annual VFW convention in August.
See: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/18/now-thats-what-im-talking-about-vfw-about-face/
10) The Heartbreak of Palin Derangement Syndrome.
It’s sad that this needs to be brought up, but it must: it would appear that the Netroots - as per their continuing habit of acting as if the American political system was identical to a pre-Giuliani Times Square peep show emporium - has gotten themselves in a bit of a scrape, again. Specifically, they spent several cheerful hours hooting and hollering over the way that THAT WOMAN suggested that the Tea Party not “party like it was 1773″ before they noticed that… well, that the Boston Tea Party was in, well, 1773.
See: http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/10/19/the-heartbreak-of-palin-derangement-syndrome/
10a) Politico Silent on Palin, Hannity, Levin and Beck Retractions
Over at Politico, reporter Jonathan Martin came up with a liberal media twist on Sarah Palin and talk radio and Fox stars. The piece, entitled Hurricane Sarah, describes her as "high maintenance" and so on and so on. It is the classic political hit piece.
As might be expected, the story is sourced to "e-mails and bar-stool chats among the tightknit world of Republican political professionals."
Ahhh yes.
This always interesting little world of self-believed "insiders" has confidently proclaimed that Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck have all had it with Palin. The former Alaska governor is supposed to have "backed out of planned interviews" with Hannity and Levin "the morning she was scheduled to talk to them." Beck was said to be "so annoyed" he "finally decided not to have her on his radio or TV show to promote the book."
Uh-oh. One problem with this for the so-called "insiders."
All three stars say this is nonsense. Levin calls the story a "flat lie." They want a retraction.
I have inquired of Mr. Martin twice as to whether he or Politico will have a retraction forthcoming for Hannity, Levin and Beck.
And the response?
Silence. And…silence.
See: http://spectator.org/blog/2010/10/22/politico-silent-on-palin-hanni
11) State lawmakers preparing citizenship legislation
PHOENIX – The state senator in Arizona who wrote the nation's toughest law against illegal immigrants said Tuesday he's collecting support across the country from legislators to challenge automatic U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
Arizona state Sen. Russell Pearce's target is the 14th Amendment, but it is unclear how the state lawmaker can or will influence a federal statue.
"This is a battle of epic proportions," Pearce said Tuesday during a news conference at the Arizona Capitol. "We've allowed the hijacking of the 14th Amendment."
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101020/ap_on_re_us/us_illegal_immigration_citizenship
12) Harry Reid: “but for me, we’d be in a worldwide depression” (I wouldn’t believe it unless I’d heard it with my own ears!)
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOoBOsZBU8
12a) Harry Reid: Ritz-Carlton not home
Facing a barrage of attacks over his living arrangements, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid insisted Thursday that his condo at Washington’s Ritz-Carlton was nothing more than a one-bedroom apartment and that his real home is in a dusty mining town south of Las Vegas.
“I live in Searchlight, Nev.,” Reid said on MSNBC Thursday. “I have a home in Searchlight, Nev. I stay in Washington, D.C., in a one-bedroom apartment — and my penthouse is on the second floor. How do you like that? Penthouse on the second floor.”
In the interview, Reid stepped up his attacks on his opponent, Sharron Angle, accusing her of lying about his personal life and record and calling her “embarrassing” to Nevada. Reid defended his record bringing jobs to the state and said it doesn’t give voters “comfort or solace” to tell them “but for me, we’d be in a worldwide depression (emphasis mine).”
…Reid purchased his condo at the Ritz-Carlton, which is now valued at $1 million, and paid $750,000 in cash for the property in 2001, according to property assessment records. As Senate majority leader, Reid’s annual income is $193,400.
See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43989.html
12b) Sharron Angle hits Barack Obama in new ad
As President Barack Obama travels to Nevada to rally voters for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, his Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, aims to use the president's own words against him in a new video.
Angle's campaign said the video, touted as the "First Ad of 2012," would be cut down to air as a 60-second television ad in Nevada on Friday, when Obama is scheduled to host a rally for Reid at a Las Vegas middle school.
The video sets Obama's promises and rhetoric on the campaign trail against Nevada's dire economic situation. It begins with then-candidate Obama, in a September 2008 appearance, saying, "A troubled economy isn't news." He goes on to detail lost jobs, falling home values, rising prices and increasing health-care costs as chants of "O-BA-MA" ring in the background.
"The truth is that while you've been living up to your responsibilities, Washington has not," Obama says.
"In 2008, we were promised change we could believe in," the ad says onscreen. Then Obama is shown at the Democratic National Convention, declaiming, "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow" -- and a picture of an oily-winged pelican is shown.
"Then Harry Reid and the president got to work," the onscreen text says. Statistics such as the state's worst-in-the-nation 14 percent unemployment rate flash against a backdrop of photos of Obama and Reid ecstatically embracing.
Rock on, Sharron! What an awesome ad!
See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43996.html
12c) Angle camp accuses Reid of trying to buy seniors' votes
Sharron Angle's GOP campaign is accusing U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of trying to "buy the votes of seniors" (and that’s just what’s he doing, comment mine) by offering one-time $250 checks to Social Security recipients.
Reid said he and other Democrats would offer the legislation to authorize the checks during the post-election lame duck session in Congress.
13) Ann Coulter
Chris Coons Lied, Granny Died (long, but worth it; Ann Coulter is a fantastic writer.)
In all of life's tribulations, there is nothing so aggravating as being condescended to by an idiot. In last week's CNN debate in the Delaware Senate race between the astonishingly well-spoken Christine O'Donnell and the unfortunate-looking Chris Coons, O'Donnell had to put up with it from Coons for 90 minutes.
O'Donnell wiped the floor with Coons, moderators Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian, and the idiotic University of Delaware students asking questions -- all of whom were against her.
(With the nation on the verge of another great depression -- the brunt of which, to my delight, will fall most heavily on college students -- guess what the dunderheads asked? GUESS! That's right: They asked about abortion "in the case of rape or incest," "don't ask, don't tell," doing something about "our carbon footprint," and the kook-minister who was going to burn Korans, because ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, I TELL YOU!)
…After O'Donnell described the China problem with absolute precision -- the Chinese hold so much of our debt, we can't hold them accountable in their dealings with Iran or North Korea -- Coons smirkingly replied: "It's hard for me to respond effectively, Wolf, to all the different issues that my opponent has raised in previous statements, and I'll just let that stand."
Then he launched his Chinese-Australian conspiracy theory!
Coons said: "The Australian navy engaged in joint exercises with the Chinese and specifically excluded us recently. A dramatic shift in the Australian policy."
Somehow, The New York Times had missed the national security implications of Australia's engaging in naval exercises with China! Either that or Coons is Dennis Kucinich, I've-got-eight-test-tube-babies-and-I'm-broke crazy.
…She concluded by asking Coons: "Speaking of cap and trade, your family business stands to financially benefit from some environmental legislation under Bush -- "
Then she was cut off by the moderator.
Coons sneered: "A fascinating question that really makes no sense, yet, so if you'd like to -- better ask the whole question, I'd be -- what's she talking about?"
O'Donnell said sweetly, "I'd like to know if your family business stands to have a financial gain if cap and trade is passed and, if so, would you recuse yourself in the lame duck sessions from voting with Harry Reid?"
Coons again scoffed at O'Donnell: "Fascinating question. No."
Thinking he had caught O'Donnell in a gaffe, Blitzer asked for her evidence. Oops!
O'Donnell cited W.L. Gore -- the company owned by Coon's stepfather, which also provided Coons with the only for-profit job he ever held -- and said that the company makes fuel cells and other things that companies will be forced to buy under cap and trade. (Making W.L. Gore at least the second entity named "Gore" to cash in on the global warming hoax, by the way.)
Blitzer asked Coons, "Is that true?" Oops, again!
Amid a litany of irrelevancies and insults -- That's quite a stretch, Gore makes a lot of products, we also sell dental floss! -- Coons finally coughed up the truth: Yes, Gore will benefit if cap and trade becomes law.
He explained his earlier, by-now-obvious lie by saying that "it took a couple of minutes to even understand what she was talking about."
See: http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2010/10/20/chris_coons_lied,_granny_died
14) Report: Steny Hoyer Knuckle-Punched GOP Opponent in the Back (Video)
…“I could of swore, towards that end, just about shortly after he made that remark to you, that there was like a knuckle punch to your back. Were my eyes, am I that blind, did I make that up or was he, was he giving you kind of a goad there?” stated the questioner.
“You are not making that up,” responded Lollar. “It was done not just once, but twice.”
15) Merkel says German multi-cultural society has failed
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany's attempt to create a multi-cultural society has failed completely, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, calling on the country's immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values.
Merkel weighed in for the first time in a blistering debate sparked by a central bank board member saying the country was being made "more stupid" by poorly educated and unproductive Muslim migrants.
"Multikulti", the concept that "we are now living side by side and are happy about it," does not work, Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at Potsdam near Berlin.
"This approach has failed, totally," she said, adding that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values.
"We feel tied to Christian values. Those who don't accept them don't have a place here," said the chancellor.
"Subsidising immigrants" isn't sufficient, Germany has the right to "make demands" on them, she added, such as mastering the language of Goethe and abandoning practices such as forced marriages.
Finally someone with the guts to say that not all cultures are equally valid.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101017/wl_afp/germanymuslimreligionimmigration
16) Protests and Violence Escalate in France and Greece
PARIS (The Blaze/AP) — Youths have overturned a car and hurled bottles at police in the French city of Lyon amid nationwide tensions over raising the retirement age.
Police are chasing the protesters and trying to subdue the violence with tear gas.
Months of peaceful protests over the retirement reform have degenerated into violence in scattered sites around France. Lyon saw clashes Wednesday between youths and police, and the violence is resuming Thursday.
Also Thursday, protesters temporarily blockaded Marseille’s airport and have blocked high schools around the country.
Around the country, French protesters blockaded Marseille’s airport, truckers tied up highways and Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris ahead of a tense Senate vote Thursday on raising the retirement age.A quarter of the nation‘s gas stations were out of fuel despite President Nicolas Sarkozy’s orders to force open depots barricaded by striking workers.
Gasoline shortages and violence on the margins of student protests have heightened the standoff between the government and labor unions who see retirement at 60 as a hard-earned right.
“A hard-earned right?” Unbelievable.
See: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/protests-and-violence-escalate-in-france-and-greece/
17) Iran, Venezuela leaders seek 'new world order'
TEHRAN, Iran – The leaders of Iran and Venezuela hailed what they called their strong strategic relationship on Wednesday, saying they are united in efforts to establish a "new world order" that will eliminate Western dominance over global affairs.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and visiting Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chavez, watched as officials from both countries signed 11 agreements promoting cooperation in areas including oil, natural gas, textiles, trade and public housing.
Among the agreements, Venezuela's state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA said the South American country was forming a joint shipping venture with Iran to aid in delivering Venezuelan crude oil to Europe and Asia. It said in a statement that the agreement for a joint venture also would help supply Iran "due to its limited refining capacity."
Both presidents denounced U.S. "imperialism" and said their opponents will not be able to impede cooperation between Iran and Venezuela.
See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101021/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_iran_venezuela
18) Michigan Woman Faces Civil Rights Complaint for Seeking a Christian Roommate
A civil rights complaint has been filed against a woman in Grand Rapids, Mich., who posted an advertisement at her church last July seeking a Christian roommate.
The ad "expresses an illegal preference for a Christian roommate, thus excluding people of other faiths,” according to the complaint filed by the Fair Housing Center of West Michigan.
"It's a violation to make, print or publish a discriminatory statement," Executive Director Nancy Haynes told Fox News. "There are no exemptions to that."
Haynes said the unnamed 31-year-old woman’s case was turned over to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights. Depending on the outcome of the case, she said, the woman could face several hundreds of dollars in fines and “fair housing training so it doesn’t happen again.”
WOW. Grand Rapids has been captured and is now under the control of a communist dictator, apparently - complete with “re-training camps".
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