Day: July 9, 2015

Office-holders praising each other, fighting the fight, in the trenches — Eisenhower fix-up meeting, Brooks Middle School, 2013

Berkeley on the Prairie

Oct. 29 was the fix-Eisenhower meeting at Brooks. The senator had called it, announced it in the newspaper, had urged attendance with robocalls, ran it.

He set the tone at the start, standing at a podium in front of a big stage in the ample middle-school auditorium, facing a good-sized crowd. “Eleven or twelve years ago,” he a newly elected senator, “we [royal “we”?] were fighting this fight in Oak Park.” Military images predominate; there were more to come.

“It’s been a longstanding issue in our community, going back generations.” (To when Oak Park clout, then Republican, forced a narrowing of the roadway.) His honored guest the Sec Trans and IDOT director had been the “most responsive on this issue” of the four secretaries of transportation he had worked with in his eleven-plus years as senator. (Four in 11 years!)

Sec Trans responded in kind. The senator, she said, had…

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Oregon bakers see ante driven up by ZEALOUS apparatchik

More fuel to the bonfire of gay marriage supporters’ vanities:

In another sickening twist, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries is ordering the family to pay their $135,000 fine by next Monday or the state will put a lien on their home. Apparently, Commissioner Brad Avakian is so fiercely committed to his agenda that he’s willing to put five kids on the street to prove it. Conform or go homeless. Sounds like tolerance to me! Like florist Barronelle Stutzman, whose home also hangs in the court’s balance, the Kleins are finding out how low the Left is willing to sink to demand conformity on their redefinition of marriage.

Out, out, damned spot of signal resistance for conscience’ sake.

Trouble brewing for First Amendment

Two kinds of activists are gearing up.

In the 12 days since the Supreme Court’s marriage ruling, the Left’s army is already marching on its next target: the First Amendment. At least two movements are finding more common ground in the wake of the decision — secular and LGBT activists. The pair are becoming fast allies against what they view as a common enemy: religious freedom.

Maybe there are well-intentioned gay-marriage supporters who will decide the movement is going too far. Not many, is my bet. Keep in mind the steamroller that we know about so far.