Saturday, June 1, 2019

DECEPTIVE BULLYING AND THE "ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM"




My wife and I have learned that if we are going to navigate the waters of the NYC Bay and the East River with our inflatable kayak, we have to understand the powerful tides. This same lesson applies to navigating the political arena with its powerful currents of intimidation. Take for example the silencing and marginalization techniques of the Left:

·       It’s been a year since Amazon removed Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) from its AmazonSmile program, which allows customers to choose a non-profit group to receive a percentage of any Amazon purchase…Amazon pointed to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which labels ADF as a “hate group” simply for holding beliefs shared by millions of Christians across the world.

ADF explained:

·       These are beliefs that you likely share: Marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Life is sacred from conception until natural death. God created man in His image – male and female. But the SPLC has decided that these beliefs are no longer welcome in the public square. And it has directed its powerful allies and considerable resources – its assets are more than $500 million – toward silencing anyone who holds these beliefs.

ADF has provided other examples of how the Left has marginalized them because of their defense of traditional values:

·       Microsoft used the SPLC’s “hate” label to cut off our ability to buy software at non-profit pricing. This adds more than $100,000 to our annual costs.
·       In Arizona, a secularist organization attacked ADF in newspaper editorials, billboard ads, and proposed legislation over our ability to sponsor a specialty license plate that proclaims our national motto: “In God We Trust.”
·       Members of the mainstream media parrot the SPLC’s false talking points.
·       For several months, opponents attacked ADF with vicious and dishonest billboards in Times Square.

ADF also claims that their supporters:

·       have been harassed online, disowned by their alma maters, and shouted down in public places. Some have had to be escorted by security officers when they speak on college campuses. One team member walked out of church to find her car window shot out days after arguing on behalf of our client Jack Phillips at the U.S. Supreme Court. Those with ties to ADF – allied attorneys, Blackstone Fellows, and even highly qualified judicial nominees – have been doxxed and dragged through the mud in the media. This is now how the SPLC spends its vast resources and power – harassing peaceful, conservative organizations and people simply because it disagrees with our beliefs. https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/blog-details/allianceedge/2019/05/30/the-splc-is-not-just-trying-to-silence-adf-it-s-trying-to-silence-you?sourcecode=10005571&id=3

Harassment, intimidation, and marginalization are strategies used by groups who realize they cannot make a rational case for their agenda and believe that they have to resort to repressive and abusive methods in order to get their way. If they thought that they could win through the free exchange of ideas they wouldn’t use bullying tactics. By using such tactics, they also create distrust, division, alienation, and destroy the common glue that had once allowed us to live together under one roof.

The Left is a self-centered teen who wants his own way at whatever the cost to others. To achieve his gratification, he will manipulate and lie. He will even present the National Socialist Hitler and socialistic Mussolini as right-wing fascists, disguising the fact that they were Leftists. He will also label those who believe in the traditional family as “haters” and “bigots” to deny them a voice or even employment, whatever it takes to get their way. For the Leftist, there is no price too high to pay, even genocide, the tool of every non-voluntary, big-government communistic experiment.

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