The week when post-America's death rattle became audible

Well, the Arizona Republic chimed in with an editorial on that state's bill about protecting businesses from lawsuits forcing them to violate the core tenets of their religious faith.  It wants Brewer to veto it.  The reasons cited - harm to the tourism industry, harm to other industries' ability to attract talent - are similar to those put forth here in Indiana by major universities and corporations regarding our own HJR-3.

I'd wager that she will indeed veto it.  The pressure has built to a level she can't withstand.

This situation is a microcosm of what has killed America: obscuring of the core issue, the ubiquity of the "diversity" meme, and fever-pitch emotionalism as an irresistible rhetorical weapon.

The core issue has nothing to do with homosexuality.  It is, like the situation with the Little Sisters of the Poor and contraception coverage, whether Americans can be coerced into violating the central precepts of their faith.

Ascribing some kind of inherent virtue to the notion of "diversity" has made possible not only the dizzying pace with which the post-American public has become willing to change the definition of one of the oldest institutions in human history, but the indulgence on the part of schools, corporations and municipalities of all manner of self-invented sexual identifications that would have been considered cartoonishly outlandish a mere ten years ago.  We now give a serious airing to a woman who becomes a man via surgery and hormone therapy and then decides it wants to bear a child.

I have posed, in various forums of debate, this question: "Where is the shortcoming in the free-market solution to this?  A homosexual couple takes its wedding-cake business to a baker eager to serve, and the Christian baker is left alone."  No one will directly answer it.  Not one person.

Because this battle in the war for America's soul is about the Freedom-Haters stamping out the Judeo-Christian foundation of our society.  What I have seen in the way of non-responses to my question is a disturbing trend.  These FHers, who preen and self-congratulate and bask in their self-perceived superior virtue, wind up positing in one form of expression or another that these service-providers must be made to get over their silly religiosity because it is wrong and hateful.

More  chilling yet is the zeal to humiliate and marginalize on the part of the FHers.  They point to emerging trends in courts and state legislatures, the message being, "It's coming.  Might as well surrender now."

At the outset of every totalitarian takeover of a nation there has been a silencing of the last voices of dissent by a savage mob that is satisfied with nothing less than utter extermination of even the consideration of freedom.  That is where we are this week

Memo to Freedom-Haters: You own post-America.  It's going to be very dark and you will experience the darkness no less than those of us who warned about it.  The mob is shouting for Barrabas to be freed, and Pilate has washed his hands.