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Friday, April 8, 2016

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS BAN NON-ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT TRAVEL TO MISSISSIPPI OVER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAW

DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS BAN NON-ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT TRAVEL TO MISSISSIPPI OVER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM LAW 
SEE PREVIOUS ARTICLE FIRST:
BY HEATHER CLARK
SEE: http://christiannews.net/2016/04/08/democratic-governors-ban-non-essential-govt-travel-to-mississippi-over-religious-freedom-law/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

The Democratic governors of Vermont, Minnesota, Connecticut, New York and Washington have banned all non-essential government travel to Mississippi over a new religious freedom law that protects pastors, faith-based organizations and business owners who object to being complicit in another’s same-sex ceremony.
“Discrimination is not a New York value. We believe our diversity is our greatest strength, and we will continue to reject the politics of division and exclusion,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement on Tuesday. “This Mississippi law is a sad, hateful injustice against the LGBT community, and I will not allow any non-essential official travel to that state until it is repealed.”
“This act of discrimination is discriminatory against many Mississippi residents, and violates their Constitutional rights,” Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton also remarked. “We cannot allow this injustice to go unanswered. When the rights of some Americans are threatened, it is the responsibility of all Americans to stand in opposition to those discriminatory acts.”
As previously reported, last Friday, the Mississippi House of Representatives passed H.B. 1523, also known as the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act. It had been passed days prior in the Senate.
“The sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions protected by this act are the belief or conviction that: marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman; sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage; and male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth,” the legislation, authored by House Speaker Phillip Gunn, reads.
The bill then prohibits the government from punishing those who decline to officiate same-sex ceremonies or provide services or accommodations for the celebrations, as well as those whose policies require use of locker and restrooms consistent with their biological gender.
It does not permit persons to refuse service in general, but only to decline forms of personal participation in events that conflict with their faith.
“The state government shall not take any discriminatory action against a person wholly or partially on the basis that the person has provided or declined to provide … services, accommodations, facilities, goods, or privileges for a purpose related to the solemnization, formation, celebration, or recognition of any marriage, based upon or in a manner consistent with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction,” it reads in part.
Major corporations such as Pepsi, General Electric, Whole Foods, Dow Chemical Company, Hewlett Packard, Choice Hotels International, Hyatt Hotels and Levis Strauss & Co. have expressed opposition to the measure. Religious freedom groups, however, have applauded the move.
“Mississippians from all walks of life believe that the government shouldn’t punish someone because of their views on marriage,” stated Alliance Defending Freedom legal counsel Kellie Fiedorek. “After all, you’re not free if your beliefs are confined to your mind. What makes America unique is our freedom to peacefully live out those beliefs, and the Constitution protects that freedom.”
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has defended the Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act, stating that it “merely reinforces the rights which currently exist to exercise of religious freedom as stated in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
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SEE ALSO:
Truth about MS Religious Freedom Protection Act
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ALLEGED "GROOMING" AMONG ACCUSATIONS ABRIDGE FREE SPEECH: UK THERAPIST SUSPENDED FOR SHARING CHRISTIANITY WITH MUSLIM CO-WORKER LOSES APPEAL

APPEAL TO TRIBUNAL IN VAIN, BUT PUBLIC EXPOSURE HAS BENEFITS
CHRISTIAN CHARGED WITH "GROOMING, BULLYING, HARASSMENT" BY MUSLIM JUNIOR CO-WORKER SHE THOUGHT WAS A CLOSE FRIEND, BUT WHO TURNED ON HER, TRUE TO HER ISLAMIC BELIEFS

Matthew 24:10-"And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

FREE SPEECH ABRIDGED BY TRIBUNAL IN ATTEMPT TO CHOKE OFF CHRISTIAN EXPRESSION IN THE WORKPLACE

 VICTORIA WASTENEY STANDS STRONG IN HER FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST
Victoria Wasteney.

FROM: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-wasteney-6311a363

Head of service: Occupational therapy (Forensic Directorate) at East London NHS Foundation Trust
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Therapist Suspended for Sharing Christianity With Muslim Co-Worker Loses Appeal
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

LONDON — An occupational therapist who was suspended from her job for nine months after her Muslim co-worker alleged that she was trying to convert her to Christianity has lost her appeal before an employment tribunal.
As previously reported, Victoria Wasteney, now 39, had developed a friendship with her colleague Enya Nawaz, now 28, as they worked at the St. John Howard Center in London. The two had discussed Islam and Christianity, and Wasteney had talked to Nawaz about her church’s efforts to fight human trafficking.
“The whole basis of our conversations around faith started with her telling me that she’d had an encounter with God, that she felt she had been brought to London for a particular reason,” Wasteney told reporters.
“We were both interested in what one another were involved in,” she said. “It was part of the normal process of building a relationship with someone, to talk about primarily things we were interested in outside of work.”
In 2013, after Nawaz told Wasteney about her personal health concerns on a lunch break, Wasteney offered to pray for her. Nawaz replied, “Okay,” and Wasteney laid hands on her and prayed that God would give her “peace and healing.”
Wastney also invited her co-worker to church and gave her a copy of the book “I Dared to Call Him Father,” which is about a Muslim woman who converted to Christianity. Wasteney said that she had never read the book, but that it had been recommended by a friend.
“Because we had had these conversations, it did not seem abnormal,” she explained.
But Nawaz soon lodged a complaint with her employer, alleging that Wasteney was trying to convert her. Wasteney was consequently suspended for nine months with pay while an investigation was conducted into the matter.
In 2014, while dismissing several other accusations, a disciplinary panel declared Wasteney guilty of “bullying and harassment,” stating that she was wrong to pray with her co-worker, invite her to church and give her a book about her faith. She was presented with a written warning and allowed to return to work—but not in her specialist field.
The matter then was appealed to an employment tribunal out of an effort to draw awareness to concerns over those who might face discipline for speaking about their faith in the workplace. But the tribunal upheld the panel’s ruling, stating that it dealt properly with the situation.
Wasteney was granted permission to appeal the decision, but on Thursday, Judge Eady QC agreed that Wasteney’s employer was right to discipline her.
“What the court clearly failed to do was to say how, in today’s politically correct world, any Christian can even enter into a conversation with a fellow employee on the subject of religion and not, potentially, later end up in an employment tribunal,” Wasteney said in a statement. “If someone sends you friendly text messages, how is one to know that they are offended? I had no idea that I was upsetting her.”
She provided an example of a text that she received from Nawaz.
“Hope you’re okay, Victoria. You’re an amazing manager and a wonderful person. I hope you never feel otherwise!” it read.
“I believe the NHS singled me out for discipline because Christianity is so disrespected,” Wasteney said. “Previously a Christian worship service that I set up for patients was closed down, but accommodation for Muslims to practice their faith wholly facilitated and encouraged.”
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EXCERPTS: "The two women had discussed Islam and Christianity, as well as the work done by her church at the Christian Revival Church in the O2 Arena in Greenwich against human trafficking. Miss Nawaz went onto make a formal complaint, and the East London NHS Foundation Trust suspended Ms Wasteney on full pay from her £50,000-a-year job for nine months while they investigated in June 2013. A disciplinary hearing upheld three complaints about the book, the invitation to attend church and Miss Wasteney’s offer to pray for Miss Nawaz, and gave her a written warning for misconduct. She continues to work for the Trust, but not in her specialist field. She launched her own employment tribunal against the NHS in January, saying she wanted to raise awareness about the increasing difficulties experienced by religious people in the workplace and claiming the organisation had failed to clear her of wrong doing because it would be ‘politically incorrect’ to find a Christian innocent. Miss Wasteney will be represented in court by human rights barrister Paul Diamond, and her appeal is supported by the Christian Legal Centre, according to The Sunday Times. 
Chief executive of the centre Andrea Williams told the paper: ‘Persecution starts with marginalisation. ‘Where countries let go of a cohesive Christian world view you get chaos and marginalisation. ‘We are letting go of what has given us our freedom.’ She added: ’The tribunal found it was inappropriate for her to engage in prayers or give her colleague a book given her senior position."
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Victoria Wasteney speaks to BBC News
2015
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NHS worker Victoria Wasteney 'I was engaging in normal behaviour' (2014)

                                

Victoria Wasteney interview (2014)

                                

Victoria Wasteney discusses her case on ITV London 2015

                                 

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OBAMA ADMITS HE'S BEEN A SERIAL LIAR FOR DECADES IN A MASS E-MAIL SENT OUT BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY

HE DIDN'T STOP IN 2013: 

Obama Admits Lying All Along 

on Homosexual "Marriage" Views

BY ALEX NEWMAN
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/22931-obama-admits-lying-all-along-on-homosexual-marriage-views; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

In a mass e-mail sent out to supporters by the Democrat Party, Obama admits for the first time that he lied to voters repeatedly about his views on marriage. In fact, if his latest claims are to be believed, Obama has actually been lying to voters for decades, going all the way back to when he launched his political career in the home of Castro-backed communist terrorist Bill Ayers. Despite proudly lying to voters all those years when he claimed to believe in the sacredness of what is today called “traditional” marriage, Obama admitted that one of the reasons he got into politics was to radically change the definition and meaning of the institution underpinning human civilization for millenia.
“To me, creating a more perfect union means doing everything we can possibly do as leaders to make our kids' lives a little better than our own,” Obama said in the e-mail. “To decide that, in this country, health care is a right, not a privilege. To secure the right of marriage equality under the law for every American, no matter who they love. To help make sure our grand kids inherit a healthy planet. All of these things, and so, so many more, are why I got into politics in the first place.”
Leaving aside the dangerous misunderstanding of what a right actually is, the admission, if true, means Obama lied his way into every elected office he has ever held. The first time Obama admitted to believing homosexuals could be “married” was in May of 2012, in the fourth year of his presidency. “I've been going through an evolution on this issue,” he declared in an “historic” interview with a fawning ABC interviewer. “At a certain point, I've just concluded that, for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
Contrast that with his earlier statements. “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman,” he said in 2008 on MTV. “I am not in favor of gay marriage.” Also in 2008, during a presidential debate moderated by megachurch pastor Rick Warren, Obama went even further. “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman,” he said. “Now, for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.” In 2010, he told liberal bloggers that he still believed in traditional marriage. He said he was opposed to homosexual “marriage” in 2004, too. In 2011, when a 1996 questionnaire Obama filled out admitting support for destroying marriage was uncovered, White House Director of Communications Dan Pfeiffer said it had been completed by somebody else and that Obama “has never favored same-sex marriage.”
But according to Obama's e-mail today, all of that was actually a lie — he was just deceiving “stupid” voters, as ObamaCare architect John Gruber called Americans, to get elected and advance his extremist agenda that could never advance without lies, deception, dishonesty, and sleazy machinations of all kinds.
Of course, it is not the first time Obama has been exposed lying about his views on marriage. According to Obama campaign operative David Axelrod's book Believer: My Forty Years in Politics, Obama lied to voters about his position on marriage because it would have been political suicide to tell the truth. “Opposition to gay marriage was particularly strong in the black church, and as he ran for higher office, he grudgingly accepted the counsel of more pragmatic folks like me, and modified his position to support civil unions rather than marriage, which he would term a ‘sacred union,’” Axelrod boasted, admitting that he encouraged Obama to lie.
Obama also lied about the process he said should be used to redefine and undermine marriage across America. “What you're seeing is, I think, states working through this issue, in fits and starts, all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times,” he said in the 2012 ABC interview in which he spoke of the “evolution” in his public position (i.e. lies). “And I think that's a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue, what's recognized as a marriage.” Just a few years later, his administration was urging the Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution and the American people in order to falsely and ridiculously declare homosexual “marriage” to be a “constitutional right.”
As the late Justice Scalia explained in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, though, the decision may well backfire, with Americans realizing that the court has radically overstepped its bounds. If and when that happens, the American people, through their representatives in Congress or at the state level, could work to put the lawless court in its place, nullifying its illegal edicts, reining in its usurped jurisdiction, and working to constitutionally put it in its constitutional place. With “each decision ... unabashedly based not on law,” Scalia warned, the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of [its] impotence.”
Beyond the marriage issue, Obama has been caught lying repeatedly. Perhaps most infamously, he told Americans that they could keep their doctors and their health insurance plans if they liked them, knowing this was a lie. “We will keep this promise to the American people,” Obama declared in the summer of 2009 as he was trying to sell the radical overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system to a skeptical public. “If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your healthcare plan, you will be able to keep your healthcare plan. Period.” He knew, even while saying that, that it was not true, as official documents later revealed and the White House admitted.
Of course, the Obama lies outlined in this article only scratch the surface of the problem. Lying appears to be a way of life for Obama and the corrupt cabal that surrounds him. From climate alarmism and abortion to the war on gun rights and beyond, Obama has shown that he will lie with impunity if he believes it will advance his radical agenda to “fundamentally transform” America. In short, to Obama, the ends justify the means — even if those means involve lies. For a Christian, as Obama claims to be, that is absurd.
While constant lying is common among the political class of both parties, that Obama brags about lying to Americans in a public e-mail says a great deal about the man who claims to see virtually no limits on his usurped power. In short, he lacks morals, and cannot be trusted under any circumstances. In fact, his brazen lies throw into question the legitimacy of everything his administration has done while in office.
In his e-mail boasting of his lies on homosexual “marriage,” Obama said he believed the “progress” that has been forced on Americans via lies and lawlessness could be protected from the American people's growing outrage. “I believe we can go further, and make America even brighter for generations to come,” he said. “But if we're going to do that, we've got to elect Democrats to the White House, to Congress, and to statehouses all across the country.” For the sake of liberty and constitutional government, Americans had better hope he is wrong.
The question that must be asked now: What else is Obama lying about?
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