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We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Monday, July 30, 2012

Chick-Fil-A Watch: Mayor Bloomberg, ACLU, & NAE Oppose "Evident Discrimination"


http://www.christianpost.com/news/evangelical-group-govt-leaders-threats-against-chick-fil-a-evident-discrimination-79155/ 

Evangelical Group: Gov't Leaders' Threats Against Chick-fil-A 'Evident Discrimination'


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July 30, 2012|6:19 pm

The nation's largest evangelical organization, representing more than 45,000 churches, called foul on government leaders who displayed "evident discrimination" against Christian-owned Chick-fil-A by threatening to bar the business from expanding in their cities because of the owner's personal views on marriage.

"Individuals have the right to decide whether or not to 'eat mor chikin.' But no government leader should restrict a business or organization from expanding to their district based on the personal or political views of the owners," said National Association of Evangelicals President Leith Anderson in a statement Monday. "Such evident discrimination and attempts to marginalize those with religious values have no place in American democracy."
The NAE joins former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and evangelist Billy Graham in defending the restaurant chain and its president Dan Cathy, who in recent interviews stated his support for the traditional family unit.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Chicago Mayor and former White House Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel, and a Chicago alderman had all swiftly denounced Cathy's comments as discrimination against part of their city's population, and stated that they would not welcome Chick-fil-A to their cities.
But surprisingly, the American Civil Liberties Union, known to be liberal, defended Chick-fil-A against threats by the elected officials.
"The government can regulate discrimination in employment or against customers, but what the government cannot do is to punish someone for their words," Adam Schwartz, senior attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, told Fox News. "When an alderman refuses to allow a business to open because its owner has expressed a viewpoint the government disagrees with, the government is practicing viewpoint discrimination."
Similarly, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended Chick-fil-A's right to do business in his city and any other city in the U.S.
"I disagree with them really strongly on this one," Bloomberg said during an appearance on the John Gambling radio show. "You can't have a test for what the owners' personal views are before you decide to give a permit to do something in the city. You really don't want to ask political beliefs or religious beliefs before you issue a permit. That's just not government's job."
The NAE says it is committed to opposing government interference with the integrity of the family and "innovations such as same-sex 'marriage.'" It also affirms the principles of religious freedom and liberty of conscience.

"If Chick-fil-A is not welcome for embracing traditional marriage, then are Chicago Mayor Emanuel and others saying that evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons aren't welcome either?" Anderson asked.
Huckabee is calling on people to support Chick-fil-A this Wednesday, Aug. 1, by eating at one of its locations. So far, some 480,000 people have confirmed they are going.

1 comment:

Rocky2 said...

[Enjoying your blog, Reformed. Saw this dispatch on exciting web.]

The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !

(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time "days of Lot" - coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings - that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)

Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco's underground saint - San Andreas - will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in "Madam" Nancy Pelosi's brothel district in front of children! Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It's far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted "days" of "Lot" and "Noah" in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads - no, not the Sears catalog - and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google "Obama Fulfilling the Bible.")
Gays like to say that Jesus didn't explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don't talk about all the things they don't want. Instead they speak positively about what they'd like to receive. In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of "thou-shall-nots" and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same "days of Lot," gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!

(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends - including Brown and Pelosi - did NOT approve of this message.)