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"RIGHT WING WATCH" A SOROS-FUNDED WEBSITE THAT LIES TO FURTHER THE LEFTIST AGENDA

Tony Perkins writes in "A Site for Soros Lies" - 

If you think the media uses credible and honest sources to report the news, think again. You'd be surprised at how many "mainstream" outlets rely on a left-wing advocacy organization funded in part by liberal billionaire George Soros. The organization is called RightWingWatch and tracks the statements of conservative politicians and leaders for the sole purpose of feeding distorted -- and sometimes even fabricated -- versions to their allies in the media.

Now, it's no surprise that press who are outright hostile to conservative views like Huffington Post rely on RightWingWatch's propaganda, but it is shocking that that this kind of truth-optional reporting is utilized (and therefore legitimized) by mainstream networks like CBS, Politico, and others.

CHRISTIAN LEADERS THREATEN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IF GAY MARRIAGE MADE THE LAW OF THE LAND

 

Caitlin Burke of CBN News reports:

A group of prominent Christian leaders is issuing a warning to the U.S. Supreme Court. If it makes gay marriage the law of the land, they will not obey.

The news comes as the high court is preparing to make a decision on same-sex marriage.

Two big questions are being considered: First, do same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry? Second, if they do not, must states with marriage bans recognize same-sex marriage licenses from other states?

"As of today, only 11 states have chosen to enact same-sex marriage. But if the Supreme Court says it's a constitutional right, we'll have it in all 50," Brad Jacob, associated professor at the Regent University School of Law, told CBN News.

"That means 39 states will have the will of the people overturned," he said. 

In a document titled, "Pledge in Solidarity to Defend Marriage," Christian leaders say they will continue to defend traditional marriage, even if it means civil disobedience. 

DALLAS WILLARD: NIETZSCHE VS. JESUS (VIDEO)

Dallas Willard, professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, spoke at Stanford University in 2002 on the topic Nietzsche vs. Jesus.  I found his talk intriguing.   Willard treats Nietzsche respectfully, offering a helpful explanation of Nietzsche's historical context, and the way his perspective on "truth" now predominates in the culture of our day.  Against Nietzsche Willard contrasts Jesus and Christ's way of discovering genuine truth and reality.  The talk is nonpolemical and offers much to ponder.  Go here.

Dallas Willard passed away in 2013 after teaching at USC from 1965 to 2013.  He left  behind an influential body of work.  I have read several of his books and go back from time to time in order to better digest and internalize his thought.  Willard offers fresh vocabulary.  He replaces traditional terminology such as "disciples of Christ" with "apprentices to Christ."   Some of his books include:

     The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God

     The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives

     Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of  Christ

     Knowing Christ Today: Why We Can Trust Spiritual Knowledge,  

     Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with Christ. 

A book published after his death is  The Allure of Gentleness: Defending the Faith in the Manner of Jesus.

EX-MUSLIM: KORAN REVEALS A RELIGION I DID NOT LIKE

Dale Hurd reports for CBN News:

 

GOTHENBURG, Sweden -- Mona Walter is on a mission. Her mission is for more Muslims to know what is in the Koran. She says if more Muslims knew what was in the Koran, more would leave Islam. 

Walter came to Sweden from Somalia as a war refugee when she was 19. She says she was excited about joining a modern European nation with equal rights for women. But as a young Muslim woman, that was not the Sweden she encountered. 

A Real Introduction to Islam

It was in Sweden that she first experienced radical Islam on a daily basis.

"I discovered Islam first in Sweden. In Somalia, you're just a Muslim, without knowing the Koran. But then you come to Sweden and you go to mosque and there is the Koran, so you have to cover yourself and you have to be a good Muslim."

Walter says she grew up in Somalia never having read the Koran.

ISRAEL SENDS LARGE-SCALE MISSION TO NEPAL

 

From CBN NEWS:  

JERUSALEM, Israel -- A 260-member team from Israel arrived in Nepal Tuesday to aid in search and rescue operations and to set up a multi-facility field hospital that can treat at least 200 patients daily.

Over the weekend, the death toll following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday rose past 2,500.

“An advanced multi-department medical facility, equipped with approximately 95 tons of humanitarian and medical supplies from Israel and a medical staff of 122 doctors, nurses and paramedics will be rapidly established in the city of Kathmandu to provide medical care for disaster casualties,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement.

“The facility will include pediatric, surgical, internal medicine, neonatal and radiology departments, as well as a maternity ward and emergency and operating rooms.”

The IDF National Search and Rescue Unit dispatched a team of senior military physicians, engineers, mechanical engineering equipment operators and rescue dog handlers.

JUDICIAL MANDATING OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD PUT THE U.S. AT ODDS WITH THE WESTERN WORLD

The Witherspoon Institute produces an online publication Public Discourse edited by Ryan T. Anderson.   An article published April 21st contains important information not well known:

Fewer than 9 percent of the countries belonging to the United Nations have redefined marriage to include same-sex relationships—and only one of those did so via its judiciary. A judicial redefinition of marriage would make the United States an extreme outlier on the global stage.

More - 

There is no “emerging global consensus” for same-sex marriage. In fact, same-sex marriage in any form has been adopted by only 17 of the 193 member states of the United Nations—a mere 8.8 percent. . . .  All of the rest—176 sovereign nations— retain the understanding of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. That is, taking the 193 member states of the United Nations as the reference point, over ten times as many countries disallow same-sex marriage as allow it. Additionally, more nations have constitutional provisions defining marriage as the union of a husband and a wife—47, as of last month—than have recognized any form of same-sex union. Many other countries have adopted legal protections of same-sex unions that stop short of changing the definition of marriage.

Still more - 

The list of the twelve tribunals in two foreign organizations and nine nations that have upheld male-female marriage against claims of discrimination reads like a Who’s Who of progressive, liberty-loving democracies: the European Court of Human Rights, the UN’s Human Rights Committee, and national courts in Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Finland, Italy (both the Constitutional Court and the Court of Cassation),Ireland, Chile, and Colombia. Even though these bodies and countries have strong and deep support for LGBT rights (and a few have legislatures that have gone on to legalize same-sex marriage), the courts have rejected claims that same-sex marriage should be judicially established as a fundamental or constitutional right. 

Read the whole article.

DAVID BROOKS - A WIDE-RANGING TALK NOT TO BE MISSED

Brooks' talk is officially titled, "Cultivating a Cultural Imagination."  Somewhat towards the end, Brooks recounts the phenomenal life of the 18th century man of letters Samuel Johnson, a life which amazes, humbles and inspires.   Carve out 30 minutes of your life to listen to the entire talk.  You won't be disappointed. Guaranteed.

  

MILITARY HOMOSEXUAL ASSAULTS WAY UP

Unless I misunderstand what Defense Secretary Carter is reporting, homosexual assaults in the military are way up and basically out of control!  What utter foolishness to have opened our armed services to behavior that we now find destroying the confidence and cohesiveness of fighting units, a phenomena  widely and repeatedly predicted.  Political correctness won -- as usual.  We are reaping the results.  

 The Family Research Council summarizes:

In a talk to ROTC cadets Wednesday, Secretary Carter -- who inherited this mess after almost seven years of Obama's social engineering -- admitted that the military has a long way to go in cleaning up its act. Last year, he explained, thousands more men (10,400) were sexually assaulted than women (8,500) -- proving once again how misguided the crusade for open homosexuality was. "...[A]ltogether, that's 18,900 too many," Carter said. "No man or woman who serves in the United States military should ever be sexually assaulted."

A little over four years ago, Congress ignored the warnings of several leaders and charged ahead with its repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" against the military's advice. Under pressure from the White House, the Pentagon downplayed the effects of open homosexuality when it was implemented in 2011 -- something it's having a tough time doing now, with the rate of male-on-male abuse. And even Carter believes that's a low estimate -- in part because men are so reluctant to report abuse, especially from other men.

NATIONAL MARCH FOR MARRIAGE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 25

Press release:

On April 25, thousands upon thousands of traditional marriage supporters will gather in the nation's capital for the 3rd Annual March for Marriage. This is just days before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to take up a case to determine the legal status of society's most fundamental relationship. The March for Marriage provides "a powerful demonstration to the media, opinion leaders, legislators and jurists that a majority of Americans still stand for marriage as it has been traditionally and historically defined and handed down through the centuries," according to the March for Marriage website at www.marriagemarch.org. 

 At the April 25 March for Marriage, tens of thousands of Americans who will have traveled across the country by bus, plane, train, and car will converge on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. A host of speakers will address the crowd during a rally that starts at 11:30 a.m., before the group begins its march to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building at 1:00 p.m.

 "The March for Marriage serves as an important reminder to government leaders, the public, and the media, that Americans from across this nation still hold to the truth that marriage, by its very design and definition, is only the union of one man and one woman," said John L. Rustin, president of the North Carolina Family Policy Council. "We encourage all North Carolinians to participate, either in person or in spirit, in the March for Marriage and to affirm that every child deserves a mother and a father."

 The March for Marriage website includes several resources for participants.

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments April 28.

Family Research Council (FRC) has filed its own amicus curiae brief in Obergefell v. Hodges, the general name of the combined cases the Court will hear. FRC's brief has been authored by respected constitutional attorney Paul Linton, formerly of the Thomas More Society, and FRC Senior Fellow Chris Gacek, J.D., our brief debunks the argument that the "fundamental right to marry" includes a right to marry a person of the same sex, as well as the contention that limiting marriage to opposite-sex unions constitutes a form of sex discrimination.

It is easy to overdramatize public policy issues; sometimes, Christian groups issue Jeremiah-like warnings too readily. This is not such a time: The implications of the Supreme Court's decision could be farther reaching than, at present, anyone knows.

QUICK TAKES

Links from the Drudge Report:

     -  Ann Arbor priest urges his parishioners to get concealed carry licenses   

                    He titles his letter, "We're Not In Mayberry Anymore."

     - USDA urges citizens to eat expired food.

                   I've always known "expiration dates" needn't be observed.

    - Google allows you to see everything you've ever searched!

                   With all that data available to people and advertisers, your life is an open book 

    -  Facebook takes another step in controlling media content.

                  "In a post entitled, “News Feed FYI: Balancing Content from Friends and Pages,” Facebook Product Manager Max Eulenstein and User Experience Researcher Lauren Scissors lay out how “media content” will be altered under the site’s newest algorithm."  Translation:  Facebook is the boss!  

     - Report: JPMorgan Chase Bans Storage of Cash In Its Safety Deposit Boxes

                   Wow.  A sign of a growing "war on cash."

Article:  As of last month, Chase has also instituted a new policy which, “restricts borrowers from using cash to make payments on credit cards, mortgages, equity lines, and auto loans,” writes Professor Joseph Salerno of the Mises Institute.

The news arrives on the back of comments by Citi’s Willem Buiter, who recently advocated abolishing cash altogether in order to “solve the world’s central banks’ problem with negative interest rates”.

Last month we also reported on how the Justice Department is ordering bank employees to consider calling the cops on customers who withdraw $5,000 dollars or more.

Efforts to impose restrictions on the use of cash by banks are seen by many as an attack on anonymity and an example of how financial institutions are positioning themselves to handle the fallout of the next economic crash – at the expense of customers.

OBAMA'S "HO-HUM" ATTITUDE TOWARD W0RLDWIDE KILLING OF CHRISTIANS

Kirsten Powers distinguishes herself as being one of the few reporters willing to report on the massacre of Christians worldwide and Obama's "ho-hum" attitude. Powers writes in USA Today:

What do you call it when 12 men are drowned at sea for praying to Jesus?

Answer: Religious persecution.

Yet, when a throng of Muslims threw a dozen Christians overboard a migrant ship traveling from Libya to Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi missed the opportunity to label it as such. Standing next to President Obama at their joint news conference Friday, Renzi dismissed it as a one-off event and said, "The problem is not a problem of (a) clash of religions."

While the prime minister plunged his head into the sand, Italian authorities arrested and charged the Muslim migrants with "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate," according to the BBC.

As Renzi was questioned about the incident, Obama was mute on the killings. He failed to interject any sense of outrage or even tepid concern for the targeting of Christians for their faith. If a Christian mob on a ship bound for Italy threw 12 Muslims to their death for praying to Allah, does anyone think the president would have been so disinterested? When three North Carolina Muslims were gunned down by a virulent atheist, Obama rightly spoke out against the horrifying killings. But he just can't seem to find any passion for the mass persecution of Middle Eastern Christians or the eradication of Christianity from its birthplace.

Religious persecution of Christians is rampant worldwide, as Pew has noted, but nowhere is it more prevalent than in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where followers of Jesus are the targets of religious cleansing. Pope Francis has repeatedly decried the persecution and begged the world for help, but it has had little impact. Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president's mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christianswere at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.

A week and a half after Obama's National Prayer Breakfast speech, 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded for being "people of the cross." Seven of the victims were former students of my friend and hero "Mama" Maggie Gobran, known as the "Mother Theresa of Cairo" for her work with the poorest of the poor. She told me these dear men grew up in rural Upper Egypt and had gone to Libya seeking work to support their families. They died with dignity as they called out to their God, while the cowardly murderers masked their faces.

Rather than hectoring Christians about their ancestors' misdeeds, Obama should honor these men and the countless Middle Eastern Christians persecuted before them.

Monday, there was more horrifying news: ISIL terrorists released a video purporting to show more religiously motivated killing. According to CNN, before beheading and shooting two groups of Christians in Libya, a speaker said, "The Islamic State has offered the Christian community (the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay a tax for being Christian) many times and set a deadline for this, but the Christians never cooperated."

So they kill them.

Indeed, let's talk more about the Crusades.

Kirsten Powers writes weekly for USA TODAY and is author of the upcoming The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech

In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes diverse opinions from outside writers, including our Board of Contributors. To read more columns like this, go to the Opinion front page.

IRAN'S PURSUIT OF CONQUEST AND EMPIRE

David Pryce-Jones writes:

The Iranian regime has a rational pursuit of its interests. At the core of those interests, however, is a vision of conquest and empire. The clerics ruling Tehran since 1979 have put an end to Shiite quietism, a doctrine whereby the individual was asked to make his peace with God, and that was all. Ayatollahs who thought on those lines have been killed, imprisoned, or neutralized. Those who have commandeered their place exploit faith in order to acquire power. With their turbans and black robes, they may look like divines but they are acting exactly like the tyrants who have politicized and militarized one Muslim country after another. Right now, they are colonizing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen, and positioning themselves far afield in Sudan and even Latin America. The destruction of Israel is not negotiable, so they continually threaten, and the regime further promises to drive the United States out of the Middle East altogether.

GROUPTHINK AND THE CROSS

Jay Nordlinger makes an acute observation:

Lately, as many of us often do, I’ve been writing about groupthink, mob hatred, the herd mentality, going with the flow, and the difficulty of being truly independent.  (Go here, for example.)  I’m not sure you’ll find a starker example than in Mark 15:

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself, and come down from the cross.

Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe.

And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

Even when you’re dying on the cross, as those two criminals were, you have to be with the in crowd?  You have to be cool?  Even then you can’t depart from the herd?  The pull to join in, to go with the flow, to hate who and what the mob hates, must be very, very strong. 

Me:  The pull to go with the flow is strong.  We all know that, and have experienced it, and most likely have been guilty.  I have.  Maybe going forward things will be different.   Maybe the present hysterical attack on Biblical morality will sort out "Christians" into those who choose to submit joyfully to the Lordship of Christ versus those who turn away to "fit in" and promote rebellious "freedoms."   It could be that the moral splendor of Christian faith will once again serve as a beacon and magnet for those tired of social and moral chaos, even as it did in the early church.  

QUESTIONS FOR INDIANA'S CRITICS: (OR, WHAT WILL THE FUTURE OF THE INGRAINING OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN AMERICA LOOK LIKE?)

Ross Douthat poses serious questions for "Progressives" to answer given their vision of ingraining homosexuality in America to the extent of legislating against any opposing views.  He asks:

1) Should religious colleges whose rules or honor codes or covenants explicitly ask students and/or teachers to refrain from sex outside of heterosexual wedlock eventually lose their accreditation unless they change the policy to accommodate gay relationships? At the very least, should they lose their tax-exempt status, as Bob Jones University did over its ban on interracial dating?

2) What about the status of religious colleges and schools or non-profits that don’t have such official rules about student or teacher conduct, but nonetheless somehow instantiate or at least nod to a traditional view of marriage at some level — in the content of their curricula, the design of their benefit package, the rules for their wedding venues, their denominational affiliation? Should their tax-exempt status be reconsidered? Absent a change in their respective faith’s stance on homosexuality, for instance, should Catholic high schools or Classical Christian academies or Orthodox Jewish schools be eligible for 501(c)3 status at all?

3) Have the various colleges and universities that have done so been correct to withdraw recognition from religious student groups that require their leaders to be chaste until (heterosexual) marriage? Should all of secular higher education take the same approach to religious conservatives? And then further, irrespective of leadership policies, do religious bodies that publicly endorse a traditional Judeo-Christian-Islamic view of sexual ethics deserve a place on secular campuses at all? Should the Harvard chaplaincy, for instance, admit ministers to its ranks whose churches or faiths do not allow them to perform same-sex marriages? Should the chaplaincy of a public university?

THE LIBERAL AGENDA IS BASED ON FAKE NEWS

A huge need exists to wise up to leftist lies and propaganda.  Rush Limbaugh correctly states:  "The Liberal Agenda is Based on Fake News."   

RUSH: "Hands up, don't shoot" did not happen. There were no rapes by frat houses and frat boys at the University of Virginia. Lena Dunham cannot prove that she was raped by a conservative at Oberlin College where she reputedly attended. The Duke lacrosse case was totally manufactured and made up. It did not happen. And on and on and on. Eric Garner in New York was not killed by a cop chokehold. He died of a heart attack on the way to the hospital. But never mind.

There is no discrimination against homosexuals in Indiana. All of this is drummed up and fake. Every one of these stories is fake. And when they are exposed as fake, such as the Rolling Stone University of Virginia rape story, when they are exposed as fake, how does the journalist responsible for the fakery and his or her accomplices in the rest of the Drive-By Media respond?

They say, "It may be, it may be fake. But it doesn't matter because we know it's happening elsewhere. We know rape is happening all over this country campus after campus after campus. It may not have happened there, it may not have happened in this case at the University of Virginia. But we know it's happening, and we have raised everybody's consciousness level about it, and so it was good."

And once again we're drawn back to the nature of the evidence when it comes to liberalism, irrelevant. The seriousness of the charge. In this case, the seriousness of the charge is that men are raping women on college campuses all the time, every day, and it's gotten out of hand. Another fake premise is that white cops are murdering and executing innocent black children every day in America. It's gotten out of hand. We gotta stop it. But it doesn't happen, and it hasn't happened.

And now we are off on another totally manufactured, made-up, fake story that there is rampant, wanton, Christian discrimination against loving homosexuals all over Indiana. It isn't true. You've heard about the story. The local TV affiliate, the ABC Eyewitness News affiliate walks into a pizza store 30 minutes south of Indianapolis. They just walk in. There's no reason. The store hasn't made any news. Nobody inside the store said anything. The media is going door-to-door. . . .  

They are shopping and hoping to find what they claim is discrimination and bigotry. So they walk into this pizza store after failing to find a business that meet their needs. They're just going door-to-door and they walk in, they finally find a naive woman who admits, "No, we wouldn't cater a gay wedding because of our Christian views." Never mind they never have, they've never been asked to, they've never said no, they've never refused to cater. It was totally made up, but that's not the story. The media's making it the story, but it's what happens after the Drive-By Media person goes into the business and concocts this fake story. It's what happens afterwards that is really fake.

Incidentally, regarding the pizza store that could not reopen and received numerous death threats (Memories Pizza), Dana Loesch conducted an interview and invited donations at GoFundMe.   As of 10:00 PM on April 2, 2015 over 13,000 people had contributed a total of over $395,000.  I am sure I will need to update that figure.

HUCKABEE ON INDIANA LAW: "THIS IS A MANUFACTURED CRISIS BY THE LEFT"

 

Huckabee:  "I'm watching these major corporations fold up like a cheap tent in a wind storm and it breaks my heart to see it. . .   I was in China last year, I was governor of Arkansas 10 and a half years; the people --  including the CEO of WalMart -- who said Arkansas shouldn't pass this law,  I'm wondering: I know Arkansas very well, and I know China a little bit.  WalMart does a lot of business in China and there is a lot more discrimination going on in Arkansas than there is in Arkansas."

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Miscellaneous quotes:

Ed Whelan - H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” Progressivism, it seems, should be defined as the “haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be making a decision you disapprove of—and the fervent use of government power to prevent and punish such a decision.”

Peter Steinfels - The whole point of freedom of religion is that it protects an extraordinary gamut of differing, frequently conflicting cosmologies, spiritual disciplines, and moral codes.  They may include refusing to fight in defense of the nation, rejecting certain foodstuffs or medical treatments, discouraging young people from secondary or higher education, honoring celibacy or condemning a variety of sexual practices, sacrificing animals, drinking alcohol, or ingesting hallucinogens for ritual purposes, prescribing certain head coverings or hairstyles despite school or occupational rules, insisting on distinct roles for men and women, withdrawing from friends and family for lives of silence and seclusion, marching in prayer through neighborhoods on holy days, preaching on street corners or otherwise trying to convert others to these persuasions. 

CUT HIS MIC OFF

Via Kathryn Jean Lopez who observes:  "A perfectly reasonable argument, shut down. This is where we are? This is where we want to be?"

 

Me:  Ryan Anderson isn't given a chance to complete his thought.  Since Anderson is the most articulate spokesperson who knows the law and knows the threat to religious freedom, I guess we shouldn't be surprised he would be cut off.   What's surprising is that MSNBC had him on in the first place.

- National Review Online offers an editorial:  "Liberals Against Religious Liberty in Indiana"  

- Andrew T. Walker - "Indiana's RFRA: Eight Theses"   Excellent overview and summation

Update: Ed Schultz brought Ryan Anderson back on his program, but Schultz still wouldn't allow Anderson to finish his thoughts and accused Anderson of not being capable of having a civil discussion.  Wow...   The truth is that Anderson is terrific.   Who is Ryan Anderson?  Click here or click "continue reading" below

 

- Good Q&A with Anderson on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. - This is a MUST READ.  I may put it up on a separate blog post.  Click here.

- On the Daily Signal Ryan Anderson talks about getting cut off by Ed. Schultz:

 

GEORGE WILL'S OBSERVATIONS ON THE INDIANA RELIGIOUS FREEDOM BROUHAHA

 

Will offers sensible observations:

“There is nothing more tiresome in modern American life,” says columnist George Will, “than the indignation sweepstakes we get in all the time to see who can be most angry about this and that.” And the sweepstakes are on in Indiana. Responding to the outrage surrounding the Hoosier State’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Will noted on Tuesday’s Special Report, “Tim Cook, CEO of Apple thinks Indiana is a horrible place. He opened marketing and retailing operations in Saudi Arabia two months before a man was sentenced to 450 lashes for being gay. The selective indignation is itself wonderful. “There are obviously two important principles at stake here,” Will continued. “One is, the government should rarely, and only with extreme difficulty, compel people to take actions contrary to their consciences. The other is that when you open your doors to commerce you open them to everybody. That’s a simple thing. It goes back to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the public accommodations section, which is surely a great moment in American history. You can work this out, but the indignation isn’t helping.”