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Religious bigotry is rife in America

GOPUSA StaffWashington Times Posted On 11:30 am January 28, 2019
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Last week, I received an email from a company in Massachusetts, informing me they refused to do business with my university.

The message was as follows: “Dear Oklahoma Wesleyan University, We find [your] president’s publicly expressed views of LGBT and transgender people to be hateful, hurtful and abhorrent. We therefore must decline your request [to provide any service or sell any of our products to your university].”

What was it that Oklahoma Wesleyan was interested in purchasing? Here’s a copy of our actual inquiry: “Dear, Mr. Jones, We are looking for a museum quality display case for a scroll of the Torah we have recently acquired If you could provide a catalog or other information that would be most helpful.”

Reading the above, you might rightfully ask what in the world I, as president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, said that has the owners of this small cabinet manufacturing company so up in arms? What did they find to be so “hateful, hurtful and abhorrent?”

Was it when I penned a defense of human freedom in this column and said, “If we are not objectively defined as human beings and if we can’t defend the ontological, biological and theological premise of what it means to be a man and be a woman, i.e. to be human, then freedom for the human race is lost”?

Was it when I defended the rights of women in this same column and said, “Our cultural infatuation with the subjective construct of ‘gender fluidity’ has resulted in women losing their rights to their own showers, their own restrooms, their own scholarships and their own sports?”

Maybe my offense was suggesting that “If human beings, human purpose, and human rights are henceforth predicated on subjective desires rather than on biological reality real women and other true minorities will be required to forfeit their legal position, their personal privacy, and even their own identity to those claiming to have equal status simply because of their unmoored and unscientific feelings.”

Or it might have been when I challenged my own church and said, “How can the church — the Evangelical church, the Holiness church — not see the salvific tragedy in celebrating and codifying any group of people based on their desires? I thought the message of salvation meant our identity was in our Lord and not our libido, and that the beauty of the Gospel was that, through confession, we become new creations in Christ.”

Was my crime of “hateful” rhetoric when I contended that “Ours has become a culture of expression and choice where right and wrong are not determined by self-evident truths, but rather by personal feelings and popular fads?”

Or was it when I concluded by stating, “When you dumb down the definition of the person to ‘being’ a homosexual or even a heterosexual, you have just admitted you think they are actually defined by nothing more than their desires and that their human identity is little more than the sum total of their sexual appetites and inclinations. Is this not the ultimate insult to what it means to be human?”

I also once said in this column that “It never ceases to amaze me how those who wave the banner of ‘love and tolerance’ become so vengeful when presented with a cogent argument that challenges the vacuity of their broken ideas.” I went on to suggest that these opponents can’t seem to stop themselves from showing their “two-faced hypocrisy and self-refuting duplicity with their shouts of ‘I can’t tolerate your intolerance and I hate you hateful people!'”

They claim to be champions of science while ignoring science. They pretend to be feminists while denying the feminine. They posture as champions of inclusion while shamelessly excluding all they don’t want to include. It is like watching a dog chase its tail. It would be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Does the owner of this small little store in Massachusetts not see the irony of his response? Is he really so deaf and blind as not to hear and see the very rhetorical branch upon which he sits creaking and cracking as he saws away at it so feverishly?

In addition to all the above, there is one final and overarching irony in this story. Everything above should lead any informed reader to the obvious question: If a baker in Colorado is wrong for refusing to sell his product to those who disagree with his views on homosexuality, then isn’t a furniture company in Massachusetts equally wrong for refusing to sell their product to those who disagree with their views on homosexuality?

In other words, shouldn’t we all be asking, “Isn’t what’s good for the goose also good for the gander?”

Perhaps so, but as a mature human being, made in the image of God; with moral awareness and the ability to choose my actions (rather than be defined by my appetites, base instincts and childish emotions) I think, rather than suing everyone who disagrees with me, I’ll just choose to remember what my mother once said about “sticks and stones” and simply move on and buy my furniture from someone who isn’t a religious bigot.

• Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, is the author of “Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery 2017).

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capricorn1
capricorn1
12:00 pm January 28, 2019 at 12:00 pm
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and still no one believes that we are on the brink of a very un-civil conflict in america.
if this keeps on without opposition america will DIE.

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A_Reader
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12:03 pm January 28, 2019 at 12:03 pm
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I suggest to research who controls the company and where their ancestors came from, and then do the same to that group what they have done to your university.

Also, expose, expose, expose. Let your students know who exactly are the people behind this act of hostility.

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    ltuser
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    3:26 pm January 28, 2019 at 3:26 pm
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    Reader, as Ron said below, How can we be against this company doing this, when many of us for years, have been on the side of those bakers/photographers to do the same??

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      A_Reader
      A_Reader
      4:02 pm January 28, 2019 at 4:02 pm

      I don’t see symmetry here, as I don’t see a symmetry between the actions of an attacker and a defender. If an individual refuses to do specific task that would offend his/her religious beliefs that are among the bedrock moral values of America then it is a totally different situation than when a company discriminates against Christian institution because of that institution’s main-stream stance on gay marriage.

      We are not a proposition nation where everything is right or moral as long as it is legal. We have a specific national morality that has provided solid foundation of America’s success. I hope you don’t subscribe to moral relativism that is being used as a tool, however invalid, to wreck our nation and replace it with a globalist-universalist utopia.

      In order for us to survive we have to stick to our time-proven sense of right and wrong, and not give up a fight because our adversaries confront it with a different sense of right and wrong. This is why we have the Constitution and the laws of the land that are supposed to preserve the desirable status quo.

      Let’s stick to what has work for us for so many generations or otherwise we may be left with nothing.

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Dronejockey
Dronejockey
1:25 pm January 28, 2019 at 1:25 pm
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Actually, I would be grateful to the manufacturer for telling me that their company is immoral and to be avoided. There are many wonderful woodworkers out there that will be happy to craft a case worthy of such a fine religious document. Thanks to the furniture company in MA for admitting that they are not worthy of the job.

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    ltuser
    ltuser
    3:28 pm January 28, 2019 at 3:28 pm
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    Heck, make this a class project FOR their carpentry class.

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Scruffy-USN-Retired
Scruffy-USN-Retired
1:49 pm January 28, 2019 at 1:49 pm
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What we are seeing here is the results of the GOD haters, the Liberals, the “Snowflake” mentality and the deranged.
This will continue until Jesus Christ puts an end to it.

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JT-Texas
JT-Texas
2:14 pm January 28, 2019 at 2:14 pm
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I am a great fan of Everett Piper and if anyone ever asks me: What is a good university to go to or send my kids to, I will, without hesitation, recommend Oklahoma Wesleyan University.

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praireliving
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2:27 pm January 28, 2019 at 2:27 pm
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The great part is you now know that to buy from them would likely be supporting someone who hates your belief system. That’s a good thing to know. I am confident that you can find a great cabinet maker who would consider it a blessing and an honor to create a display case for a sacred text that will be on display at a strong Christian school. God bless!!!

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nax777
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2:58 pm January 28, 2019 at 2:58 pm
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Try not using adverbs like broken, shamelessly or childish and character descriptions that you find comparative. I agree with you but they do not forgive your choice of words or comparatives as they would with those they align with.
You know the double standard is there, so do not give a double for them to stand on.
http://www.numbersusa.com

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ron389
ron389
3:20 pm January 28, 2019 at 3:20 pm
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I don’t have a problem with them refusing to do business, and encourage the University to take their dollars elsewhere and support businesses that agree with their values.

It’s just the flip-side of businesses like the Cake maker not wanting to do a cake for a gay wedding. We can’t get mad about someone not wanting to do business when it’s the same type of scenario where someone applies their beliefs.

Personally, I make a point of boycotting anti-gun businesses, anti-police businesses, anti-Christian business, etc., and encourage my friends and associates to do the same. That’s the great thing about a free, capitalistic society.

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    darby
    darby
    5:52 pm January 28, 2019 at 5:52 pm
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    I think you are correct about this being the flip-side of the cake maker -mostly. I wonder what would happen if they filed a complaint about their civil rights being violated. Only one would be acted upon when neither should be.

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      ltuser
      ltuser
      1:58 am January 29, 2019 at 1:58 am

      If this uni did file a suit, i feel the courts would laugh him out..

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charlie
charlie
3:48 pm January 28, 2019 at 3:48 pm
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I and most Americans believe in the Jeffersonian concept of live and let live, but the LGBTQ community and their supporters have become rabid about everything outside their world, including cake baking and pronouns!

Perhaps all these people should emigrate to the Muslim Middle-East where the majority population’s outlook towards the LGBTQ community is to kill LGBTQ community members by throwing them off roof tops etc?

Hardly think the LGBTQ community will do this!

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    ltuser
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    1:59 am January 29, 2019 at 1:59 am
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    Exactly. To the rabid left, there IS no live and let live. YOU either support them whole heartedly, or they attempt to crush you…

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Wayne Langman
Wayne Langman
3:57 pm January 28, 2019 at 3:57 pm
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President Piper,
I am quite sure someone on here will read your words and put you in touch with a cabinet maker who would be quite proud to assist you and your university.

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jrchambers
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5:45 pm January 28, 2019 at 5:45 pm
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“Through confession we become new creations in Christ.” No, no, no. Jesus said: “You must be born again. “You must be born of water and of Spirit.” Where did this “confession” business come from? Certainly not from the Word of God. Please do not obliterate the experience of regeneration.

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    baitfish
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    7:21 pm January 28, 2019 at 7:21 pm
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    If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1John verse 9 There are many more verses, including statement from Jesus himself, that stipulate confession is REQUIRED for salvation. Don’t use the “Word of God” to make false claims. It will not end well for you.

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America weeps
America weeps
11:32 am January 29, 2019 at 11:32 am
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Kudos to Dr. Piper for so eloquently pointing out the hypocrisy and intolerance that defines the left while defending those values that should but sadly no longer define america.

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