- The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is scheduled to
move forward rapidly in the U.S. House of Representatives over the next
few weeks. ENDA's threat to free speech and action is second only to the
federal hate crimes bill (also moving toward signing by Pres. Obama). ENDA
is the Anti-Defamation League's workplace hate crimes bill. To understand
its incredible threat, consider how far our society has drifted from the
ancestral American conception of our rights.
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- Traditional American law gave every citizen sole control
of his property, to use any lawful way he wished -- even in discrimination!
"Discrimination" was historically understood as owners' prerogative
to choose with whom to share their property. From Old Testament times,
the laws of western Christian civilization upheld the sanctity of private
property. The eighth commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," is
God's endorsement. Accumulation of wealth protects us not only from want
but from tyranny and is thus a bastion of independence.
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- The Bible relates that in the time of Joseph the Egyptians
harshly discriminated against shepherd peoples such as Joseph's brethren.
They considered Egypt their land and were not obligated to share with those
they did not like. Modern civil rights groups would scream "Apartheid!"
but the Bible does not fault the Egyptians. It tacitly concedes their right
to use their property as they wished. Old Testament law upholds, without
exception, the right of landowners to discriminate concerning use of what
is theirs. Greed and lack of charity is condemned, but there is never any
hint that private property or enterprise must be shared with anyone who
demands it.
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- Jesus taught that an employer's right of discrimination
even allowed him to pay employees very different wages. His parable of
the laborers describes an employer who contracts to give workers a certain
amount for a day's work. In the last hour of the workday, He hires others
and pays them the same. The first laborers grumble, "We have borne
the burden of the day." Yet Jesus upholds the employer's right to
use his land and money exactly as he desires, even if it seems discriminatory.
"I do thee no wrong," the landowner told the first laborers.
"Didst thou not agree with me for a penny?...Is it not lawful for
me to do what I will with my own?" (Matt. 20:1-16)
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- Jesus clearly inferred that our sovereign right to do
with our property as we wish reflects the fact that man is made in the
image of the ultimate landowner/proprietor, God. The Almighty is also entitled
to use His own resources, distributing gifts as He chooses. These are Biblical
values on which western Christian civilization erected its legal and social
frameworks concerning private property. In America for more than 200 years,
land, buildings, stores and factories were viewed as belonging to the owner,
to be used any lawful way he desired. Owners had the right to hire or fire
according to their will, whether their preferences were racist, bigoted
or not. Their land or business belonged to themselves alone not society
or their employees. Yes, abuses always result from the greed and cold-heartedness
of mercenary employers. But the sovereignty of every citizen to own and
use his property has ruled western society for ages -- a law resting squarely
on Biblical ethics.
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- Giving Away Our Birthrights
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- Why has America abandoned that principle? It's largely
because sovereign free citizens are frightened by government and media
claims that too much wealth, personal autonomy, and self-reliance beget
abuses. Gradually convinced that the government is a wiser, more stable
source of lifetime security, Americans over the past century have handed
over their birthrights as free citizens and landowners to government.
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- At no time (except during Roosevelt's "New Deal")
did Americans give up more than with passage of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, enacted in response to abuses caused by racial segregation. This
unprecedented legislation was also passed as a calculated attempt by liberals
and Marxists to end private control of personal property.
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- Racial segregation in the South prior to 1964 was the
formal, structured legalization of man's personal freedom to discriminate,
a social and government code that would admit no exceptions. Although historically
claiming authorization from Scripture, in many ways it did not honor New
Testament encouragement of free association between all peoples. The South
contained many altruistic institutions and social organizations to make
the "separate but equal" ideal workable; but segregation also
bred many un-Christian attitudes and practices which generated chronic
abuse, injustice, and resentment.
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- The Marxist revolutionary strategy for conquest of any
society is to locate any pocket of friction between workers and management
or between classes or races, and heighten those tensions. In contrast to
the New Testament counsel to overlook inequities for the sake of long-term
peace, Marxism depends on exacerbation of grievances. Its ultimate aim
is to so enrage oppressed groups that they will function as its "proletariat,"
ultimately toppling the landed, capitalist "bourgeoisie." Communism
is at war with the whole idea of people or groups owning land and property.
Communists view such empowerment as a formidable barrier to their ambition
of world dominion; thus Communism calls for abolition of private property.
To this end, communists in government, the media, labor unions, and "civil
rights" movements do their best to strip property owners of their
rights. (This includes passage of land use and environmental protection
laws, often crippling and harassing private industry and landowners.) When
the autonomy of private owners is destroyed, the second and final step
becomes possible: expropriation of landowners from their property altogether,
collectivizing society under a new central communist government. At that
time all control has been taken from the populace and placed in the hands
of the state.
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- The civil rights movement, culminating in federal civil
rights legislation, contained a significant percentage of Marxist activists
and leaders as well as Jews. The Anti-Defamation League -- the same Jewish
activist group that now promotes hate crimes laws worldwide -- played a
pivotal role in energizing the civil rights movement. ADL is synonymous
with the Marxist agenda. In 1962, as ADL was ramping up pressure for federal
civil rights legislation, it also attempted to persuade the Portland, Oregon
radio station that carried my father's broadcasts to end their contract
with him. ADL told the management, "Rev. Pike is too anti-communist!"
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- It is well documented that Rev. Martin Luther King associated
throughout his career with a number of known communist leaders (1). Just
before he was assassinated, he publicly endorsed and praised Ho Chi Minh,
head of the communist Viet Cong. Certainly, the civil rights movement was
the dominant cause the American Communist Party championed throughout the
1960s. As a high school student between 1960 and 1964, I frequently read
the communist "People's World" and "The Daily Worker,"
whose fervent support of integration and a national civil rights law was
virtually identical in argumentation with ADL and the rest of the Jewish-dominated
media.
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- Employers: New Victim Class
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- Thus it is not surprising that, when the Civil Rights
Act was passed, its first order of business was to end the right of private
individuals to have complete authority over their property -- primarily
businesses with more than 15 employees. The new law said that if a job
applicant has the same qualifications as others a business owner cannot,
for reasons of race, religion, or sex, deny them employment. In other words,
the business you have toiled to create no longer exists to serve you but
to serve the qualified masses. Property owners since 1964 must provide
sustenance to others, including those they dislike. They dare not fire
them for fear of a federal lawsuit.
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- As a result, those who correspond to the proletarian
working classes are empowered to exploit employers, forcing them to submit
to their desire to benefit from the employer's business. If any employer
discriminates, he can face harsh fines and even a year in prison -- possibly
destroying his business. As a result, those whom Marxists have historically
described as "exploiters of the masses," businessmen, become
exploited by those whom the federal government empowers.
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- In 1964, most Americans applauded this new inversion
of workplace ethics, saying such was necessary to counterbalance centuries
of oppression against the blacks. Few dreamed that this unprecedented
new legal and ethical system would lead to another group, homosexuals,
claiming the same prerogative to take away the property rights of employers
and landowners.
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- In my next article, I will detail ENDA's assault not
only on business and land owners but on churches and public morality. For
now, the simplest way to understand the Employment Non-Discrimination Act
is to think of it much like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent
civil rights legislation -- but with homosexuals added to the list of those
who cannot be refused employment, housing, etc. Thanks to the foundation
laid by the Civil Rights Act, this new homosexual rights and empowerment
law is now moving forward in the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.
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- ADL and homosexuals consider ENDA the "second stage"
of the civil rights movement. It is very difficult not to believe that
those hidden social engineers and strategists (largely ADL) who created
the first stage, expropriating business and property owners from their
property rights in 1964, did not have this "second stage" clearly
in mind.
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- The best way to hold back ENDA is to protest to the crucial
members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, available on the
action page at <http://www.truthtellers.org>www.truthtellers.org.
Call toll-free 1-877-851-6437 or toll 1-202-225-3121. Tell them: "Please
do not vote for the freedom-destroying Employment Non-Discrimination Act
(ENDA), H.R. 3017/S.1584."
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- Your calls will encourage Republicans to fight ENDA and
intimidate Democrats from moving it forward too quickly without proper
hearings. As with the hate bill this spring, televised hearings open the
possibility of delay and mistakes by the Democrats which lovers of freedom
(including NPN) can exploit.
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- Footnote:
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- 1. This is documented in Martin Luther King -- The Man
Behind the Myth, by Des Griffin, Emissary Publications, P. O. Box 294,
Colton, OR 97017, $10 postpaid (503-824-2050).
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- Let the Anti-Defamation League teach you how they have
saddled 45 states with hate laws capable of persecuting Christians, and
spearhead attempts to pass the federal hate crimes bill: <http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp>http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/intro.asp.
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