The Endless Irony of Lou Sheldon
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You might want to turn off your irony meters for this one: Rev. Lou Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition says that if Muslims are allowed to claim the same kinds of religious exemptions that Christians do, it will lead to Sharia law being implemented in the US:
All over the United States, radical Muslims are pushing companies to bow to Islamic law known as Sharia. They are doing this under the guise of religious freedom, but the political and cultural ideology of Islam recognizes only Allah as the supreme ruler over the world.
Efforts are already underway here in America to introduce Sharia enclaves in some communities. In these enclaves, Constitutional concepts like one person/one vote would be replaced by Sharia concepts which values a woman’s vote at half that of a man. In many instances, Sharia law allocates rights based on gender and religion (Islam is the only legal religion) rather than individual rights. In the United Kingdom and France, such enclaves exist and have caused conflict between Islamists and the country’s civil law.
What Muslims are doing has been referred to as “creeping Sharia” - that is, getting companies, communities and states to change policies in order to force everyone to obey Sharia law, a totalitarian system of regulations that govern Islamic theocracies.
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Hmmm….I seem to recall that Sheldon supports Christian pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and for doctors who refuse to perform medical procedures that violate their beliefs.
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You see, when Christians make such claims that’s an important fight for religious freedom; when Muslims make such claims it’s just part of their evil agenda. Sheldon also supports the right of employers to refuse to hire gays and lesbians, of course. It’s all about whose ox is being gored.
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