Tag: Civil Rights
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The virtue signal of all virtue signals: liberals compare themselves to heroes of all past generations
Last week, legal scholar and philosopher Robert George had a thought-provoking series of Tweets on how people today would have responded to historical events had they lived through them. George says: “I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what?…
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Colorado baker who refused to bake a same-sex wedding cake now has to defend himself for not baking a gender transition cake
Few people can say that they’ve had a case go to the Supreme Court. Jack Phillips can. He’s the Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple in 2012. The couple took this to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission who ruled in favor of the couple. According to the…
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MLK’s dream still alive 50 years after his death
Martin Luther King was assassinated 50 years ago today outside his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. In our age with all of the politics and spin, and counterspin, I find it sad to admit that I feel like I don’t really know anything about this man. Obviously I know he was the most prolific leader…
Josh Benner 