Churches fight back against Iowa Civil Rights Commission bid to silence biblical views on sexuality, gender identity

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: WASHINGTON TIMES

URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/5/churches-fight-back-against-iowa-bid-to-silence-bi/

by: Bradford Richardson


Two churches are fighting back against the Iowa Civil Rights Commission after the agency issued an interpretation of state law that could bar churches from expressing biblical views on sexuality and gender identity — even from the Sunday pulpit.

Fort Des Moines Church of Christ filed a federal lawsuit against the commission on Monday, arguing that the agency’s interpretation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act violates the First Amendment.

Christiana Holcomb, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the church, said it is difficult to “imagine a more obvious unconstitutional invasion of the state into the internal affairs of the church” than what the Civil Rights Commission is proposing.

“Churches should be free to teach their religious beliefs and operate their houses of worship according to their faith without being threatened by the government,” Ms. Holcomb said in a statement. “That is a foundational First Amendment principle.”

The lawsuit came in response to an explanatory brochure titled “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity — A Public Accommodations Provider’s Guide to Iowa Law,” released by the Civil Rights Commission. It says churches are public accommodations and therefore generally subject to the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

[goatprairie]

If it keeps on going in this direction, it will soon be illegal to practice your religion...unless of course you bow down before the Weird Sex group.  The first amendment, like all the other provisions of the constitution, is something the left uses to wipe their behinds with.

[Fishrrman]

The attack on Christianity that's currently going on in The West, and in the United States in particular, reminds me of the saturation bombing that's used on enemy fortifications before the actual invasion commences.

That is to say, it's an attempt to destroy what moral defenses that Christians have left, to soften them up before the leftist...and eventually the muslim... takeover.

Whether the Christians of The West will fight back with a new Crusade remains to be seen.
But unless we do make an attempt to regain our moral positions, we are lost.

Addendum (images added):
Will it be this:


Or... this?

[flowers]

That is to say, it's an attempt to destroy what moral defenses that Christians have left, to soften them up before the leftist...and eventually the muslim... takeover.

Yep! We are being taken over. Well we have been for sometime....now it is in the street war phase.