history repeating

State Sen. Phil Jensen (R-S.D.) doesn't believe governments should interfere in the private sector’s ability to engage in race-based discrimination, according to an interview published in the Rapid City Journal on Sunday. His comments come after a recently failed attempt to advance controversial anti-LGBT legislation, which he introduced in January. Under the auspices of freedom of speech, the bill, SB 128 sought to permit South Dakota businesses and residents to refuse services to customers based on their sexual orientation.

"There is no liberty more important than religious liberty," said Senator Ted Cruz in his keynote speech at the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators' annual state Capitol lobbying day. He later added: "This nation was founded by men and women fleeing religious oppression and coming here seeking the freedom to seek out our lord God almighty with all of our hearts, minds and souls, free of the government getting in the way.”

Governor George Wallace joined by men in white robes carrying confederate flags, white women carrying their Daughters of the American Revolution ID cards, white men and women draped in red white and blue with preferred copies of the Constitution made it very clear that the University of Alabama was not going to be tampered with by the government. The refusal to accommodate Negros in attending University of Alabama was un-American and an over reach of government. Evangelical and Southern Baptist preachers and ministers in Virginia stood with their crosses in their right hand, Bibles in their left hands, abridged versions of the US Constitution draped on their belts and cried that their religious freedoms were being attacked because of all unnatural events in America people of two separate races wanted to marry. White men felt it necessary to block access to the luncheon counters, religious deity decried that the Devil was certain to take over America when mixed races had the audacity to even consider a holy union. To these true Americans the Unites States was white, Christian (preferably of the Presbyterian Christianity) a democracy created for the majority and God above all else had the final say as to the laws of the land.

And via the struggles of the Civil Rights Act Loving V Virginia most sane and sincere citizens thought that the issue of hate, discrimination, derogatory and disregard had ended. We were apparently duped and delusional. With the rise of those who find fact frivolous, historical content hilarious, common sense just a bunch of commotion and fair and equal unChristian like  history seems to want to repeat itself. There is an attempt to redefine American values, purpose and intent. How much louder do the angry bigoted and racists voices have to get before those of us who care about truth and honor finally talk back?