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Libs Demanded Sarah Huckabee Sanders Remove a Cross Drawn by Her Kids. Here’s Her Response.
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Joyless leftists, as they are prone to do, got all triggered when Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ kids used chalk to draw a cross surrounded by colorful stained glass-like shapes on the driveway at the governor’s mansion this week.
Gov. Sanders had shared a photo of her kids and their artwork to social media, which naturally upset the usual suspects.
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Arkansas Governor’s Mansion
New artwork to welcome people into the Governor’s mansion! So proud of how hard the kids worked and how well their masterpiece turned out!
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Quickly, the hall monitors at Americans United for the Separation of Church and State issued a demand letter: remove the chalk rendering of a cross.
The group claimed that its presence at the official home of Arkansas’ executive was a violation of the Constitution.
Americans United wrote:
The religious display at the entrance to the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion violates the Establishment Clause because it sends a message that the Governor’s office—and by extension, the state of Arkansas—favors one religion over others. Such favoritism is unconstitutional. You and your family are free to display and create religious images and art in private areas of your residence, but a public-facing display in front of an entrance intended “to welcome people into the Governor’s mansion” is plainly on the wrong side of the constitutional line.
Never mind, apparently, that “separation of church and state” is not found in the Constitution, nor does having a kids’ chalk depiction of a rather universal religious symbol rise to the level of establishing a state religion.
In what should come as a surprise to no one, Gov. Sanders is not backing down, bending to the will of the no-God-in-government crowd at Americans United, or agreeing to relegate her family’s beliefs to only private expressions.
In an official letter of her own obtained by Townhall on Friday, Sanders responded to Americans United.
“I have received your letter and my answer is no,” Sanders wrote. “I will not erase the beautiful cross my kids drew in chalk on the driveway of the Governor’s Mansion or remove my post on social media, and I will not now or ever hide that I am a Christian, saved by Christ.”
Sanders continued, explaining that Americans United is “wrong to claim that our Constitution prevents public officials, let alone their families, from making earnest expressions of religious faith. Our founding documents are riddled with religious language – stating plainly that the very rights you claim to defend are ‘endowed by our Creator,'” Sanders reminded. “You are asking me to ignore that truth and hide a crucial part of my identity and the identity of my kids. That, I will not do,” she reiterated.
“In Arkansas, we stand up to bullying liberals,” Sanders declared:
We won’t let you power-wash our kids’ chalk drawings off our front steps. We won’t let you tear down Christmas decorations and stomp our traditions into the dirt. We don’t live our lives in fear of strongly worded letters coming down from Washington.
I am offended by the implication that, just because I am a Christian, I am somehow a bigot. All people, of all faiths, are welcome in our state. All Arkansans are welcome in the Governor’s Mansion. We are all citizens of this same great country – one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
For too long, the left has counted on being able to shame and bully conservatives into hiding their values and beliefs with false accusations of racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. When conservatives such as Gov. Sanders stand up to the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant left, we win.
Author: Frances Rice
BREAKING: Supreme Court Rejects Race-Based College Admissions
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In a major 6-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court has struck down race-based admissions at two universities, declaring it a violation of the equal protection clause.
The conservative justices, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, made up the majority. Justice Sonya Sotomayor wrote the dissent in the Harvard case and was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Jackson wrote the dissent in the University of North Carolina case, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan.
In the majority opinion, Roberts writes that the court has “permitted race-based admissions only within the confines of narrow restrictions. University programs must comply with strict scrutiny, they may never use race as a stereotype or negative, and — at some point — they must end.”
He also wrote that “however well-intentioned and implemented in good faith,” the admissions programs at Harvard and UNC “fail each of these criteria.”
More from the majority opinion:
Immediately after Brown, we began routinely affirming lower court decisions that invalidated all manner of race-based state action.
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In the decades that followed, this Court continued to vindicate the Constitution’s pledge of racial equality. Laws dividing parks and golf courses; neighborhoods and businesses; buses and trains; schools and juries were undone, all by a transformative promise “stemming from our American ideal of fairness”: “‘the Constitution . . . forbids . . . discrimination by the General Government, or by the States, against any citizen because of his race.’”
The majority opinion closed by saying that “nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise.”
In other words, Roberts and the majority maintain that a person’s race is an invaluable part of their background, but it should not be used to create new barriers to college admission.
“But,” Roberts concludes, “despite the dissent’s assertion to the contrary, universities may not simply establish through application essays or other means the regime we hold unlawful today.”
Author: Frances Rice
Woke CEOs May Play Dumb, But Judges Will Know Better
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You would think that corporate executives would be smart. After all, they have been given powerful positions and a lot of money to make good decisions for their companies. And yet those justifying their woke positions seem to be completely ignorant of reality.
Scott Shepard
In a RealClearMarkets commentary, Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard offers Target as a recent example:
Target has continued to claim that its hard-left partisanship is good for its bottom line. In order to do that, it has asserted that it just can’t tell what has caused the downturn in stock price since the start of the controversy, which despite some recent recovery still represents a more than 10 percent decline.
The thing is, though, in order to make the claim that such provocative and partisan moves are “the great thing for the brand,” Target has to assert that it does know that taking these political positions now is going to have significant medium- to long-term benefits for the brand.
It’s very difficult to see how both of these claims could possibly be true at the same time. If Target executives don’t really know what causes significant shifts in the current and recent share price, that might be a reason to consider replacing them or for them to consider replacing some members of their staff. But it makes it nearly impossible to believe that they can know with any degree of certainly what’s going to happen years and decades from now, so as not only to justify but necessitate their taking significant risks and spending great piles of shareholder money to take highly controversial positions today.
While these woke leaders may think they are protecting their reputations by talking out of both sides of their mouths, courts of law are not likely to be fooled by such chicanery. Scott concludes:
Rejecting replete current evidence to believe something about the future contravened by that mounting pile of real, on the ground evidence is not objective analysis. It’s faith – or it’s deliberate falsehood.
The courts may not be able to establish which of those two options apply (though they may well be able to), but they should have no problem concluding that there is a legally fit way to run a railroad – or a retail chain or investment house.
Read Scott’s entire commentary here.
Author: The National Center
Dodgers honor anti-Catholic drag ‘nuns’ more than an hour before first pitch inside nearly empty stadium
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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence received a Community Hero Award
More than an hour before the Dodgers game started on Friday night, there was a strong police presence inside and outside the stadium.
The response from law enforcement came after several weeks of outrage leading up to the team’s 10th annual Pride Night at Dodger Stadium. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence receive a Community Hero Award well before the first pitch of the game was thrown, and long before most of the fans made it to their seats.
The people who did make it inside the stadium in time to witness the pre-game ceremony seemed to have a mixed reaction to the satirical LGBTQ+. But, some of the attendees appeared to applaud as members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence waved when they were announced to the small crowd.
“The Dodgers community hero award goes to an organization reaching the LGBTQ+ community, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, LA chapter,” stadium announcer Todd Leitz said. “Please join us in recognizing the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for their outstanding service to the LGBTQ+ community.”
Sister Dominia and Sister Unity were on the field to accept the award on behalf of their entire group.
Last month, three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw announced that the team will relaunch its Christian Faith and Family Day. The veteran pitcher said it was in response to the organization’s decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
“I think we were always going to do Christian Faith Day this year, but I think the timing of our announcement was sped up,” Kershaw told the Los Angeles Times on Monday. “Picking a date and doing those different things was part of it as well. Yes, it was in response to the highlighting of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence [by the Dodgers].”
After initially removing the group from its Pride Night event, the Dodgers reinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and issued an apology.
“After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations within the Los Angeles Dodgers organization and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Los Angeles Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, members of the LGBTQ+ community and their friends and families,” the Dodgers said.
Several hours before the first pitch was thrown at the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Pride Night, a large group of protesters gathered outside the stadium.
Catholics for Catholics, a group based in Phoenix, organized what it described as “a prayerful procession” in a parking lot outside Dodger Stadium.
Fox News’ Larry Fink was on scene several hours before the start of the game and captured video of thousands of protestors outside Dodger Stadium praying and holding flags and signs. Many of the demonstrators also wore red clothing in honor of the sacred heart.
The procession lasted a couple of hours before the protesters made it to Vin Scully Avenue. Around the time the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were being honored on the field, the group appeared to block one of the entrances to Dodger Stadium.
Over the past couple of years, some athletes have expressed their opposition to the Pride Nights. Several Tampa Bay Rays players declined to wear Pride-themed jerseys, citing their Christian faith.
In May, Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass issued an apology for supporting for anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts of Target and Bud Light.
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Author: Frances Rice
Tim Scott Returns Fire After Barack Obama Knocks His Comments About Racial Progress
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Let’s just put the Democrat Party’s ugly little non-secret secret on the table, right up front. Nothing more terrifies Democrats than facts that disprove the narratives they feed their base. And no narrative is more sacred to the Democrat Party than the lie it feeds Black America, which goes something like this:
The Democrat Party is the only choice for black voters. And even though “we” haven’t fulfilled all (any) of the hollow promises we’ve made you (black voters), just think how worse off you’d be if you didn’t have us to protect you from the evil (now, “white supremacist”) Republicans.
Yeah, a complete crock of crap, but let’s move on.
Now that South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott has thrown his hat into the 2024 presidential ring, America’s only black president to date, Barack Obama (apologies to Bill Clinton, who semi-seriously claimed he was the first), has begun to snipe at Scott, who just so happens to be black, as well. The problem with Tim Scott, in the eyes of Obama and the left, is the South Carolinian is a conservative.
Scott has long argued — passionately so — that Black Americans have made rapid progress, while suggesting Democrats continue to underestimate how far Black Americans have come. But his overall message doesn’t sit well with Obama, who remains the de facto head of the Democrat Party.
Tim Scott continues to speak the truth, much to the consternation of Black Democrats.
In a podcast interview with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod, Obama sniped (emphasis, mine):
That has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present. And so if a Republican [Tim Scott], who may even be sincere in saying, ‘I want us all to live together,’ doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in this society, and we need to do something about that.
If that candidate is not willing to acknowledge that, again and again, we’ve seen discrimination in everything from … getting a job to buying a house to how the criminal justice system operates.
If somebody’s not proposing, both acknowledging and proposing, elements that say, ‘No, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair.
We actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk.’ If they’re not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical.
Damn, O — why don’t you just throw your hat in the reparations ring and get it over with?
Scott returned fire, on Thursday, albeit diplomatically so.
Let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth.
While Tim Scott’s current political position requires him to be somewhat diplomatic (saying Democrats “underestimate” how far Black America has come), mine does not. Democrats continue to lie to Black America just as they’ve lied for sixty years, but their lies are more desperate now because they know exactly how far Black America has come, and as I said at the top, it scares the ever-loving hell out of them.
Why? Because, in part, if or when Black America reaches socioeconomic parity with White America, the Democrats’ six-decades-old ruse is toast. Barack Obama knows that, as do Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, and every other black Democrat influencer.
As a result, black conservatives like Tim Scott, Clarence Thomas, Byron Donalds, Candace Owens, and others who refuse to live on the Democrat plantation must be discredited or destroyed, because they represent (to borrow a favorite left-wing term) an existential threat to the Democrat Party.
Tim Scott continues to speak the truth, much to the consternation of Black Democrats.
Author: Frances Rice