Tolerance for everything except religious belief
This wasn't supposed to happen here
[Reprinted from Issues & Views July 23, 2001]
Even in this P.C.-driven age, one would hardly have expected this turn of events. Here's what befell a black fireman Ron Greer, in Madison, Wisconsin, when he responded to a question about what he thought of homosexuality. As a believing Christian, he cited biblical scripture on the subject that pronounces it a sin. R. D. Davis tells us what came next:
Liberal groups came after Ron in full force. More than 300 shouting leftwing militants held a wild, obstreperous protest outside the church of which he is pastor. They chanted anti-Christian slogans and threw rocks at the church's windows. Then these thugs rushed into the church, shouting obscenities at Ron and the terrified church members. For their safety, five armed policemen had to escort Ron, his wife Rosalyn and their three sons out of the church.
The attacks did not stop there. A radical homosexual group from the local college campus vandalized their home in the middle of the night. They left pink triangles with vulgar homosexual references pasted to the walls and spread them all over their yard. Even worse, many local politicians also attacked the pastor for his beliefs regarding homosexuality. Wisconsin state legislators, county officials and city council members demanded that Ron be fired from the Madison Fire Department--a job he has held for 18 years.
Some insisted Ron apologize for his biblical views and statements. Madison's lesbian fire chief suspended Ron for two months, and ordered him to take a brainwashing, pro-homosexual "diversity" training course. Ron refused to be brainwashed, and instead exposed favoritism by the fire chief towards homosexual firemen in the department. The fire chief retaliated by firing him.
-- R.D. Davis, from "Where's the NAACP?," New Visions commentary. Davis is a talk show host in Huntsville, Alabama, and writes for Project 21.
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