Freedom of Conscience Update.

It is both nice to see that a majority of Americans still respect something like "Mind Your Own Business" ("MYOB") but sad to see that a substantial majority want to be gauleiters of love.

Extra points for the person who first identifies the text that used "MYOB" as a political philosphy. (Hint: Gands.)

//The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a suburban Denver baker who was prosecuted for refusing for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Most voters agree the baker has the right to say no.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 57% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it should be legal for a baker to refuse for religious reasons to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. Only 29% think the baker should be prosecuted for discrimination instead. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)//

Tolerance - the moment between breathing out one orthodoxy and breathing in another.

This week, Bernie Sanders cross-examined the nominee for the Office of Management and Budget on his denomination's belief that faith in Christ was strictly necessary for salvation and the British leader of the Liberal Democrats stepped down because his beliefs as a Christian - he did not consider abortion a sin but was pro-life privately - became a campaign issue.

This Wall Street Journal column sums up the totalitarian impulses of whatever has emerged after liberalism has died:

//Then the Guardian newspaper unearthed a 2007 interview, in which he had suggested that “abortion is wrong” but also cautioned Christian activists that an immediate outright ban would be impracticable. Confronted with his own words on the campaign trail, Mr. Farron pleaded that he’d never advocated abortion restrictions. It wasn’t enough.

In his resignation statement, Mr. Farron wrote: “To be a political leader, especially of a progressive liberal party in 2017, and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible’s teaching, has felt impossible.” He added: “I seem to have been the subject of suspicion because of what I believe and who my faith is in.”

The concept he was grasping for is conscience.

Mr. Farron’s politics recall the liberalism of Gladstone, Chesterton and Isaiah Berlin, which treated conscience as king. Today’s liberalism has triumphed so spectacularly over the claims of faith and tradition that it has nothing left to conquer but the individual conscience. This is why modern liberals are so unmagnanimous in victory.

It isn’t enough to emancipate transgender people—you, rabbi, must adhere to strict pronoun guidelines and feel in your soul that Chelsea Manning was always a “she.” It isn’t enough to legalize abortion—you, Tim Farron, must like it.

Liberals welcome believers insofar as religion can be deployed in service of liberal causes, to be sure. But any expression of theological or moral judgment is met with hostility.//

Like any colonized territory, outsiders have to educate the natives.

In this case, that is done at Fresno State University where the primitive locals are not permitted to give voice to their unenlightened throughtcrime.

//A group of group of pro-life students at Fresno State in California learned some rough lessons in free speech and the legal system recently, leading to a court case which will no doubt receive national attention. It seems that the group, Fresno State Students for Life, made plans to write some pro-life messages in chalk on the sidewalks outside the school library and obtained the required permits for a public display from the school. When the time came, they crafted their messages, including one which read, “You CAN be pregnant & successful” on the pavement, but quickly received an unexpected surprise. One of the professors from the school showed up and informed them that their free speech was in “the wrong place” and he would be coming back to clean up the unwelcome display. (CNN)

Shortly before finishing, the lawsuit claims, William Thatcher, an assistant professor of public health, approached the group and said they had to keep their messages to the university’s free speech area.

According to Bernadette Tasy, one of the organizers with the group and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, Thatcher then said he would be back to remove the messages. Tasy says he returned with a group of students and they attempted to remove the group’s messages.

Video provided to CNN by the group’s lawyers shows Thatcher starting to erase the messages with his foot.//

Pro-abortion messages were, however, chalked over the other messages.

This is the second incident involving an unhinged leftist professor at Fresno State.

No cries for "safe spaces" for conservatives as yet.