The wicked place known as New York City, is once again at the center of controversy.
— First, its strict gun-control law (no guns, even those lawfully-owned, obtained, and registered, are allowed out of the owner’s home, unless on those rare occasions he or she is traveling to and from one of 7 shooting ranges) has been challenged as violating the Second Amendment. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case in its fall session (New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. City of New York).
— Second, the state legislature passed, and Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law on the 46th anniversary of Roe. v. Wade (January 22, 2019), a late-term abortion bill that is would permit a woman to kill her unborn child up until the time of its birth for essentially any reason at all.
— And now, a New York City ordinance that was adopted last year which regulates how therapists can counsel patients who have unwanted same-sex attractions or have gender identity issues (you won’t believe which approach they are forcing therapists to take!) is being challenged in court. The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the same legal advocacy group who represented Christian baker Jack Phillips in his case against the state of Colorado for punishing him and shutting down his cake-design business because he declined to design a cake for a same-sex couple on genuinely and strongly-held religious grounds, has agreed to take the case against New York City.
Yes, folks, we’re not in Kansas anymore !!! (A metaphor, of course, because New York has never been Kansas). I’m wondering if New York City can even be recognizable anymore as being part of this free nation called The United States of America. How can one part of the country deny citizens so many traditional, and constitutionally recognized rights?
The government doesn’t belong in a person’s bedroom, it doesn’t belong in the conversation between parent and child, it doesn’t belong in one’s head as one forms the conscience he or she hopes to live by, it doesn’t belong by the jewelry box where an individual decides whether to wear a cross necklace to school or to work, it doesn’t belong in a hospital forcing a doctor who believes in the sanctity of life to perform an abortion, it doesn’t belong in the decisions of a business owner forcing him or her to design and create messages that offend his or her sincerely and firmly-held religious beliefs, it doesn’t belong in the abortion clinic preventing a doctor from giving his patient as much information and access to information as possible to help her chose life instead of the death of her unborn, and it doesn’t belong in a therapist’s office.
But a new New York City ordinance puts the government squarely in that position, […]
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