Freedom of association is a right, guaranteed by the Constitution, that we may gather with other like-minded citizens without fear of government prohibition. Its initial, though not entire, purpose was to ensure that church congregations of any denomination could hold services without being banned or interfered with. It in no way offers guidance to an employer on how they may choose to deny employment.

There is no correlation between the foundation of that idea, and the concept that an employer may choose to avoid hiring someone on the basis of their political ideology, most especially once there is concrete evidence that such is the primary reason for their decision to exclude.

/liberal jackassery>

A new study shows that Democrats and Republicans are actually unable to feel each other’s pain.

Sorry, Tina, but that’s a gross overstatement of that study. It really said that a sizable portion of people on both sides of the political fault line are less likely to empathize with people on the other side.

It’s a statistical thing, not an inability. I believe that I’m the type of conservative that could give Frank Marshall Davis or Bill Ayers a cold glass of water were they thirsty. My Lord demands nothing less.

Now, as the number of godless conservatives increase, I expect empathy to decrease on the conservative side as well. As people are not able to subordinate their flesh talking from their spirit. My flesh talks to me the same way as the conservatives who find liberal’s pain unreal, it just takes the discipline to ignore the line noise. Of course, it has often been the choice of many to wallow in whatever are the preferences of the flesh.

What I see in that study is simply an indication that the children of God should not follow the ways of the flesh–that goes for politics as well. For as Paul points out “For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?”

In addition, flesh doesn’t merely refer to sex. And we’ve allowed dabblers in the faith, who cannot bear to deny their flesh in the form of sex to make that the casual meaning of “in the flesh”. (Which I guess is one of the reasons that I de-emphasize sexual prudery.)

It’s understandable that non-religious conservatives, seeing no other state but being “mere men”, are happy for that distinction. They can even grow to have a pride in their hatreds. But people of faith are called to do more.

BTW, the quote in this post doesn’t clarify who the “Jones” recipient of the email from Carlson is. Turns out it’s the former dean of the law school, a she, Carolyn Jones, so I guess we’re also talking about lib-female-on-cons-female discrimination. Whose war on women?

Most minorities and gays in the US vote Democrat. Most white racists and vehemently anti-gay people vote Republican.

Quantus on April 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM

Others, including Black, exhibit more hatred than Whites, as the Zimmerman affair shows. Most Black race-haters vote Democrat.

Blacks are also more anti-gay than Whites. Not that I’m saying it’s obligatory to be pro-gay. That’s just how it is.

The hatred is coming from the left, constantly. They don’t even want to let conservatives have a job, which is where this thread started.

Given those realities, slamming “white racists” is just being anti-White.

Long story short: Liberals won’t feel conservatives’ thirst because they they have a moral objection, and therefore righteous hatred, toward any person who has a divergent ideology.

Conservatives won’t feel liberals’ thirst because we understand that almost 100% of the time, their thirst is of their own making.

mintycrys on April 7, 2012 at 2:05 AM

Boy this is good.

And I’m for making them play by their own rulebook.

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html

FYI: There is an exception, for Communists, those you can discriminate against! Love it!

-Alinsky

Most racist minorities… in the US vote Democrat.

Quantus on April 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM

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You missed a group or two… I inserted one for your further education.
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How do you libs say repubs are racist when almost every racial atrocity in the history of this country has been committed by (yes white) democrats?

Old Country Boy on April 7, 2012 at 9:22 AM

While I agree with you that Quantus seems to be trying to imply that being a Republican means you will be a racist, the proposition that a “white racist” votes Republican is not at all the same as the proposition that a Republican is a “white racist”. By way of illustration: A phony law professor may be the POTUS, but not every POTUS is a phony law professor.

Democrats always seem to try to overlook the fact that the Democratic party is historically the party of racism. As I have found out through long experience, look to those who are making the most vocal accusations for the worst examples of what they accuse others.

Uuuuuuugh. I’m soooooo d**n sick of this kind of mindset. Why do we continue to play by a set of rules, willingly, while these punks get to do whatever they want?? I’m sick of it. At what point do we fight fire with fire? All taking the high road has done was got us a race-obsessed, socialist president that thinks this country is a blight on humanity! Quit with this crap already! If she wants to sue them and beat her way into this institution, then GOOD FOR HER! I hope she wins. And I hope more people move to take down the “institutional left.” Breitbart people, Breitbart. Quit being chumps.

And please remember folks, noble losers don’t write history. Ruthless winners do. T

Since we want diversity in education and the law school is claiming the right to discriminate based on political views, would it not be within our rights as taxpayers to demand that applications for student loans include political affiliation, and awards of such be properly proportioned?

And isn’t an investigation of scholarship and other awards to students in order, on the off chance that the liberal faculty and administration is similarly discriminating based on political affiliation?

Most white racists and vehemently anti-gay people vote Republican.

Quantus on April 7, 2012 at 12:42 AM

Your point is well taken, but your premise, in the above quotes, is patently false and indicates you might be FoS. In the history of this country, the white republicans have not been the racist ones. How do you libs say repubs are racist when almost every racial atrocity in the history of this country has been committed by (yes white) democrats? How many repubs lynched blacks? How many repubs stood in statehouse and highschool doors to keep blacks from entering? How many republican sheriffs sicced dogs and beat protesters.

Why you lie that white repubs are racist is that they insist that blacks stand on their own two feet, get educated, and be good citizens. They become CRUEL racists when they try to get the blacks off the modern slave plantations of the liberal/marxist dhimpcrapts.

Isn’t the Law School involved part of a taxpayer funded school system? If the liberals are entitled to keep out qualified applicants to a taxpayer funded school why is everyone pitching such a hissyfit about Augusta- a PRIVATE prganization excluding women?

Maybe we’ll find we’re wrong … but maybe we’ll find we’re right.

yeah, but it makes those tense moments at the Christmas party harder to stomach./

Division? You bet. Because liberals are bent on controlling every part of our lives. It’s likely too late, but unless we begin to fight liberals will destroy us all.

Is it any wonder that the Obama administration had no idea Obamacare was arguably unconstitutional? Have law schools and Universities been so “dumbed down” by decades of increasingly exclusive Democratic ideology that they no longer comprehend that other viewpoints exist? Is this why the quasi-religion of AGM has taken such a stronghold?

Perhaps this lawsuit will awaken some vestigial recollection of the value of the intellectual experience of exchange of ideas such that an occasional conservative will get a faculty position even if she does not win her case.