Franklin Graham: Prepare for Persecution of Christians After Homosexual Marriage Ruling (VIDEO)

Yep.

And S.E. Cupp discounts this.

Franklin Graham: "Our nation has a spiritual problem."

Bingo:

CNN Contributor S.E. Cupp Gets Emotional Discussing Homosexual Marriage Ruling (VIDEO)

She's a good lady.

The problem is that it's not just about "marriage equality." The left is currently tearing the country down.

What's the GOP going to do about that?

Homosexual Flag Goes Up Over County Government Center in Santa Clara, California

We're all homosexuals now.

Interesting how the homosexual flag is going up as the Confederate flag is coming down. I don't care about the racist Confederate flag, but it sure tells you something about the direction of the country.

Rainbow flag flies over Santa Clara Co. Govt center after #SCOTUSMarriage decision this morning. @abc7newsBayArea pic.twitter.com/n2fEQc05Yh

— David Louie (@abc7david) June 26, 2015

Also, "#LOVEWINS: SUPREME COURT MAKES HISTORIC DECISION ON GAY MARRIAGE."

ADDED: It's going to be raised at government buildings all over the country. I'll update if I see more tweets:

Florida. @AmPowerBlog @debrapianalto @lheal @wellfonder http://t.co/fJ2ndGDPpm

— DernDawn (@noprezzie2012) June 26, 2015

Rainbow flag raised over City Hall in St. Pete to honor St. Pete Pride. (Photo: SPPD.) http://t.co/lz9bquV0P2 pic.twitter.com/aOffo28XU1

— Bay News 9 (@BN9) June 25, 2015

Just Waking Up and Saw This Huge Homosexual Marriage Roundup on Memeorandum Earlier

I was up scrolling through the news on my iPhone at 7:00am and the SCOTUS homosexual marriage ruling had just dropped. Memeorandum hadn't caught up with the news but had a beautiful roundup on all the ObamaCare commentary.

Here.

I have my hard copy of the Los Angeles Times, with the lead story from Noam Levey, "Analysis Obamacare appears to be about as established as a law can be in divided U.S."

So, it's a big news day today. There was an ISIS beheading in France that won't get the coverage it deserves in the U.S. with all the other news. But read around and access alternative sites. The ideological war has reached full battle pitch, and conservatives are on the defensive but not yet defeated. Join the fray friends. Truth and decency are themselves under siege.

Supreme Court Justices View Homosexual Marriage with Doubt

Well, oral arguments aren't a particularly good predictor of how the Court will rule.

And Justice Anthony Kennedy's the flaming leftist who wrote the majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, which many observers claimed foreshadowed a Court ruling establishing a right to same-sex nuptials.

So, while I take this with some skepticism, it's nevertheless pretty ticklish how the homosexual rights attorneys got all beat up during the arguments yesterday. It's good to keep the leftist ghouls guessing. They've been freakin' aggressive with entitlement this last few years. Damn.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Supreme Court weighs gay marriage; Justice Kennedy unexpectedly expresses doubt":

Gay rights lawyers went to the Supreme Court hoping to find a majority of justices ready to support a historic ruling that would declare same-sex couples had an equal right to marry nationwide.

Instead during Tuesday’s arguments, they heard words of hesitation that suggested the outcome is less certain than many expected.

The most important and surprising doubts came almost immediately from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who openly wondered whether the court should intervene in an institution so deeply rooted in history and religion.

The word that keeps coming back to me is millennia,” Kennedy said in the opening minutes of a 2 1/2-hour argument, prompting looks of concern from gay rights attorneys.

Kennedy’s apparent struggle over what is perhaps the court’s most important civil rights question in a generation was welcomed by state attorneys opposing gay marriage and by his four fellow conservative justices. They emphasized that marriage has been limited throughout American history to a man and a woman, and that the issue is better left to voters at the state level, rather than to federal judges.

Despite his comments, Kennedy — who will probably have the deciding vote — may still rule in favor of marriage rights for same-sex couples when the court announces its decision in June. Kennedy in the past had similarly voiced doubts during an argument, only to discard them when the time came to make a decision.

More important, Kennedy has written the court’s three important rulings in favor of gay rights, including an opinion two years ago that spoke glowingly of the “equal dignity” of same-sex couples who had married. It was that decision that led to a string of rulings by federal courts over the last year that invalidated states’ same-sex marriage bans as unconstitutional.

To the relief of gay rights advocates, Kennedy later in Tuesday’s argument returned to some of his more familiar themes about equality and at one point chided a Michigan state lawyer for insisting that marriage was chiefly about biology and procreation, and not recognizing the dignity derived from being in a committed couple.

“Same-sex couples say, 'Of course, we understand the nobility and sacredness of the marriage. We know we can’t procreate, but we want the other attributes of it in order to show that we too have a dignity that can be fulfilled,’” Kennedy said.

With an estimated 250,000 children that are being raised by same-sex couples across the nation, Kennedy also questioned the harm same-sex marriage bans have on such families.

Kennedy’s colleagues seemed less ambivalent about the question before them.

The court’s four most conservative justices, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., left little doubt they would vote to uphold the state bans on same-sex marriage. Roberts said gay rights proponents were seeking to redefine marriage.

“You're not seeking to join the institution,” he told attorney Mary L. Bonauto, who is representing two Michigan nurses who have been unable to marry and jointly adopt the four abandoned foster children they are raising. “You're seeking to change what the institution is.”

Roberts also warned that a ruling from the high court at this time would prematurely shut down the national debate over the issue.

But Bonauto emphasized that the rights of gays and lesbians were being compromised in many states and that it was unfair to tell gay couples to “wait and see.”

The four liberal justices said they saw no valid legal justification to deny marriage to same-sex couples, questioning how such recognition would harm heterosexual marriage.

“We are not taking anyone’s liberty away” by allowing gay couples to marry, said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

They attacked the argument that marriage is intended chiefly to encourage child-rearing, and noted that many heterosexual spouses do not have children and a growing number of same-sex couples do, either through adoption or surrogacy.


Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the court had repeatedly ruled that Americans have a fundamental right to marry, and he questioned whether “purely religious reasons” can justify a ban on same-sex marriage.

“There is one group of people whom [some states] won't open marriage to,” Breyer said. “So they have no possibility to participate in that fundamental liberty. That is people of the same sex who wish to marry. And so we ask, why? And the answer we get is, ‘Well, people have always done it.’ You know, you could have answered that one the same way we talk about racial segregation.”

More.

Thoroughly Depressing Video of a Man Trying to Exercise His Right to Freedom of Speech

That's BFH's headline.

Actually, I get a kick out of these kinds of things. It's happened to me. Leftists cannot tolerate views that deviate from the collectivist party line. Plain and simple. You will literally be attacked for attempting to exercise your rights. I was attacked last summer while attempting to cover the Anaheim police brutality protests sponsored by ANSWER LA.

And watch this guy at the video attempting to express his opinions on the left's holocaust of abortion.

Criminal leftist thugs. At iOWNTHEWORLD Report.

Planet Fitness Boots Gym Member After Complaining About Creepy Trans 'Woman' in Women's Locker

Ben Howe was cracking me up on Twitter with this story.

At MLive, "Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room."

And at Fox 8 Cleveland, "No judging allowed: Planet Fitness drops member after gender identity complaint."

Notice the apology to the transgender community for any prior references to this "woman" as a man. Hey, it's hard out there folks.

When Bread Bags Weren't Funny

From Megan McArdle, at Bloomberg:

Last week, in her State of the Union response, Joni Ernst mentioned going to school with bread bags on her feet to protect her shoes. These sorts of remembrances of poor but honest childhoods used to be a staple among politicians -- that's why you've heard so much about Abe Lincoln's beginnings in a log cabin. But the bread bags triggered a lot of hilarity on Twitter, which in turn triggered this powerful meditation from Peggy Noonan on how rich we have become. So rich that we have forgotten things that are well within living memory:

I liked what Ernst said because it was real. And it reminded me of the old days.

There are a lot of Americans, and most of them seem to be on social media, who do not know some essentials about their country, but this is the way it was in America once, only 40 and 50 years ago:

America had less then. Americans had less.

If you were from a family that was barely or not quite getting by, you really had one pair of shoes. If your family was doing OK you had one pair of shoes for school and also a pair of what were called Sunday shoes -- black leather or patent leather shoes. If you were really comfortable you had a pair of shoes for school, Sunday shoes, a pair of play shoes and even boots, which where I spent my childhood (Brooklyn, and Massapequa, Long Island) were called galoshes or rubbers. At a certain point everyone had to have sneakers for gym, but if you didn’t have sneakers you could share a pair with a friend, trading them in the hall before class.

If you had just one pair of shoes, which was the case in my family, you had trouble when it rained or snowed. How to deal with it?

You used the plastic bags that bread came in. Or you used plastic bags that other items came in. Or you used Saran Wrap if you had it, wrapping your shoes and socks in it. Or you let your shoes and socks get all wet, which we also did.

I am a few years younger than Noonan, but I grew up in a very different world -- one where a number of my grammar school classmates were living in public housing or on food stamps, but everyone had more than one pair of shoes. In rural areas, like the one where Joni Ernst grew up, this lingered longer. But all along, Americans got richer and things got cheaper -- especially when global markets opened up. Payless will sell you a pair of child's shoes for $15, which is two hours of work even at minimum wage...

Keep reading.

My dad was born in 1913, in Jim Crow Missouri. He faced a lot of hardship in life, to say nothing of racism. Stories like Joni Ernst's were a staple of the dinner table around my house growing up. Thriftiness wasn't just some noble virtue, it was a way of life. And we weren't bad off at all. My dad drove a Mercedes. It's just once you do things a certain way, you don't change when things get better for you.

And yes, we are an extremely affluent society these days. Even the poorest Americans have access to the kind of basic commodities that the poor of the developing world can only dream about.

Amazing.

Amal Clooney — You're No Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Funny, but I posted Lee Radziwill's biting criticism of Amal Clooney the other night, "Lee Radziwill Disses George and Amal Clooney."

However, I didn't link to Ms. Radiziwill dissing Ms. Clooney's gloves, "Dear #AmalClooney, This is how opera gloves are worn."

And thus it's interesting to see this at today's New York Times, "The Uproar Over Amal Clooney’s White Gloves":

At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, the fastidious Amal Clooney made what passed for red carpet history, turning the proceedings at the Beverly Hilton hotel into something resembling an affair of state. For better or worse, depending on which critic one consults, she pulled off that dubious feat by accenting her dramatic one-shoulder Dior haute couture dress with a pair of pristine opera gloves.

Incandescently white against her regal black gown, and scrunched below her elbow, those gloves — her own — brought down on her head a storm of controversy. Kathy Griffin, in her Monday morning debut on “Fashion Police,” fired off one of the first salvos: “She had on those gloves that remind me of, like, a porn scene, where the guy goes home and there’s the naughty dishwasher, and she only has the gloves.”

Ms. Griffin was just one in a chorus of critics taking potshots at Ms. Clooney for a fashion choice that, however respectfully intended, struck some as uppity, or at the least, unsuitable. “They make this look like her prom, or her debutante ball,” sniped a blogger who signed herself only as Jessica on a celebrity site. “If Amal A. Clooney is anything,” she posted, “it is not a blushing teen or fresh young debutante.”

So hotly debated was Ms. Clooney’s fashion statement that it rated its own Twitter account, @msclooneygloves. Elsewhere, tweeters singled out the offending armwear as pompous or pretentious, charging that she appears to think of herself as royalty. Another joshed, perhaps accurately, “Amal wore the gloves to protect the engagement and wedding rings from prying eyes.”

White gloves are not a look to try lightly, The Telegraph of London cautioned: “Too glitzy and you risk comparisons with Michael Jackson; too starched and you look like the Queen.”

Was it a breach of fashion etiquette that raised such consternation? Not likely, as Ms. Clooney had committed no obvious faux pas, her gloves perfectly suited to her floor-length black gown.

Or was it simply that those gloves, which according to the mischievous George Clooney, his wife had stitched up at home that very morning, didn’t seem to fit? Though there is nothing in the 1961 style primer “Gloves: Fashion and Etiquette” to suggest it, common sense would seem to dictate that opera gloves be stretched taut, pulled in an unbroken line from fingertips to elbows.

If Ms. Clooney made a blunder, it was merely that she opted for an old-school flourish that invited unfavorable comparisons to flawless style-world denizens like Jacqueline Kennedy, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, the latter flaunting her gloves with perfect élan in films like “Sabrina” and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”...

George Clooney Salutes Charlie Hebdo at Golden Globes: 'We Will Not Walk in Fear'

ICYMI, video at Mediaite. Text (and unbridled swooning) at WaPo.

Some not so insignificant folks are not pleased with the Clooneys. See previously: "Lee Radziwill Disses George and Amal Clooney."

And see Red Nation Rising, "Clooney, Clinton, Hollywood-the Anti-American Globalists."

Lee Radziwill Disses George and Amal Clooney

You gotta love it, from the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and thus the one-time sister-in-law of JFK.

I am not interested in #GeorgeClooney's lifetime achievements- or his wife. #GoldenGlobes #AmalClooney

— Lee Radziwill (@LeeRadziwill) January 12, 2015

Facebook Outage Causes People to Call 911

Well, that's obviously a life or death emergency.

From Ron Lin:

#Facebookdown causes people to call 911; L.A. County sheriff's sergeant says, "don't call us" http://t.co/L2uNl4rZhs pic.twitter.com/8xjQIeHbVI

— Ron Lin, LA Times (@ronlin) August 2, 2014

'No details at all given about this situation. You couldn't make the effort to explain why he was moved out of there?...'

This video, which is unbearably sad, is a perfect summation of the ideological left. One commenter calls out the producers in the thread: "Homeless man had a request for police..."Can I watch?"

No details at all given about this situation. You couldn't make the effort to explain why he was moved out of there? Why his home was destroyed?

Some guy named Sam has been living in a small shack, apparently on private property, for a couple of years, and the authorities come in and tear it down. The shack's destroyed as the man watches his abode crushed and the music pounds while you see him quivering with tears. It's sad. But there's no background about why this shanty was torn down. How was this man living there without breaking the law? We have laws and we have property rights. Without those things you don't have society. So, what is the purpose of this other than to generate leftist outrage at how terrible this county is? Seriously. Just read the comments at Huffington Post, linked at Barbara Starr's tweet:

Utter sadness..Homeless Man Tearfully Watches As Police Destroy His Shelter http://t.co/y5ZfJbNSFF via @HuffPostImpact

— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) July 31, 2014

Today's Feminists Can't Write for S***

An interesting piece, from Charlotte Allen, at the Los Angeles Times:

.@RSMcCain I don't understand today's feminists -- because they can't write http://t.co/X8tQij1JQh via @MeanCharlotte #RadFem

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 27, 2014

Heteronormativity and Gender Roles in Children's Movies

Another opus, from Robert Stacy McCain:

Sex Trouble: Feminists Worry That Disney Movies Are Making Girls Heterosexual http://t.co/6z231JRdqQ #tcot pic.twitter.com/bBWSW1eApy

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 27, 2014

Bill Whittle's Firewall: 'The Case for Israel'

Via Theo Spark.

An utterly devastating indictment of leftist Jew-hated (Jew-hatred that goes right to the top, to the Obama White House):

VIDEO 'Palestinian Solidarity' Protesters Attack Jews and Israel Supporters in Calgary

Here's a segment with Ezra Levant, at Sun News, "'Palestinian Solidarity' Protesters Attack Israel Supporters in Calgary."

Scroll forward to 2:45 minutes at the clip, where leftists snatch an Israel flag from a guy, Jeff Willerton, just standing there watching, and he's then pushed to the ground and beaten as he tries to get his flag back.

And then go to about 7:00 minutes at the video. The pro-Palestinian protesters cross the street to track down pro-Israel Jews, and viciously attack them.

And, wouldn't you know it? There were no police on hand in Calgary.

Sounds familiar.

Believe me, last Saturday it took a lot of self-restraint not to fight back against the ANSWER communists, who were assaulting me, but I knew that not only would I be ransacked, stomped on, and beaten by the racist dregs, but that they'd make propaganda videos attempting to show that I was a "provocateur" who instigated the violence.

Well, listen to Levant's commentary at the end of the clip: "If there's no cops there, these protesters will do whatever the hell they want. To hell with Canadian law. Or customs. Or norms. To hell with the rule of law, with democracy, to the peaceful resolution of our political differences. Left to their own devices, they like to beat Jews. And any Christians 'foolish' enough to support them, like Willerton [the guy with the Israel flag]."

Word.

PREVIOUSLY: "VIDEO: Anarchists, Communists Attack 'American Power' at Anaheim #ANSWER Protest: 'He's an Agitator!'"

Additional Responses to 'Cowardly #ANSWER Communists'

I posted some initial responses here.

I've been contacted by followers on Twitter who thanked me for being a "true American patriot," and for standing up against the communist thugs.

I especially love this tweet from Robert Stacy McCain:

Dozens of Communist Scum vs. One Honest American http://t.co/BVk8n8THem via @AmPowerBlog #tcot #Anaheim

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) July 20, 2014

I'll have more blogging later today.

VIDEO: Anarchists, Communists Attack 'American Power' at Anaheim #ANSWER Protest: 'He's an Agitator!'

"He's an agitator! That's just what he does. He's just going to cause a problem."

Watch the clip starting at 24:45 minutes. As noted, I was surrounded by dozens of anarchists, communists, dirty hippies, and meth-heads. Look at this retinue of human waste. Note especially the dirtbag with the obligatory upside down American flag. And of course notice at all the cameras being stuffed in my face. My response all day was "This is a public park. You have no right to stop me from participating in this protest." But with no police presence on the ground, thuggery was the order of the day. My phone was stolen from my hands at total of three times (I forgot to mention previously that the dirty tie-died hippie also assaulted me, stealing my phone and throwing it to the grass. Recall I had to retrieve my phone out of the street and from over a 10-foot brick wall as well.)



And forget the lies at the clip. I wasn't agitating anything, other than trying to take a few photos and Vines for my blog. What you're seeing is the mob siege that took over once the ANSWER communists realized who I was. This went on for probably half an hour at least, as I tried to move toward the main speakers, including Genevieve Huizar, the mother of dead gang-banger Manny Diaz, who in 2012 Anaheim police saw brandishing a weapon before being shot while fleeing the scene.

Robert Stacy McCain has the roundup of my earlier posts, "Commies in Anaheim?"

I'm surprised I haven't yet seen more videos of the mob attack. The reality is that the anarcho-communists were in my face, trying to intimidate and provoke me into violence, which then would have been captured on video as "proof" that I was a violent right-wing extremist. To their endless dismay, I was classically peaceful and composed, while being shut-down by criminal thugs in the typical fashion of leftist brownshirt totalitarianism.

Hey, Leftists: You're Gonna Need a Bigger Collectivist Army to Shut Down 'American Power'!

I had cameras in my face pretty much all day yesterday, all except those couple of times that leftists stole my phone.

At times I was surrounded by literally dozens of these smelly bastards, but it's gonna take far larger leftist brigades to keep "American Power" down:

Fascist infiltrator from the blog American Power provoking the crowd. Heated atmosphere! #opAnaheim pic.twitter.com/4lgeVmJb5w
— ACSA Collective (@acsacollective) July 19, 2014

And Darleen Click notes the key point that ANSWER's leftist thugs are not talking about, from the comments on yesterday's report:

Were there no cops there? Forcefully grabbing your phone and throwing it away is assault plus theft (and if the phone is over $400 it is a felony).

They want to stop gang injunctions? Nothing like handing over the public streets to criminals there.

No, there weren't any cops at the Stoddard Park rally, although there were loads of police at the march on Disneyland. I would have finished the march had I not been detoured by ANSWER's cowardly violence. These Stalinist goons simply will not tolerate conservative media reporting the truth on their "KKKOP killer" protests.