Daily Archives: May 26, 2017

Sheriff Tracy Murphree in Denton, Texas, isnt backing down from a Facebook rant that blamed Mondaysterrorist attack at a concert in Manchester, England, on gun control laws and political correctness.

I ran on a conservative Republican platform,he told the local CBS station. I dont think it should be any surprise to anyone.

Police in Manchester say the attack, which left 22 dead and dozens injured,was the work of a suicide bomber.

Murphree, however, pointed his finger in a number of other directions.

This is what happens when you disarm your citizens. When you open your borders without the proper vetting, he wrote on Facebook on Monday. When you allow political correctness to dictate how you respond to an enemy that wants to kill you.

Murphree, who has threatened to assault members of the transgender community for using the restroom, claimed the left wants to submit to an ideology that treats women as property, kills gays and women and christians with complete impunity.

Folks this is an enemy hell bent on killing you. Committed to forcing you to convert or die. This enemy will strap bombs to their own body and blow themselves up killing children. Im sick of it. You better wake up America. While you are distracted by the media and the crying of the left, Islamic Jihadist are among us and want to kill you. What will it take? This happening at a concert in Dallas or a school in Denton County? If we dont do something quick this country will die of political correctness and the fear that someones feelings may be hurt. It may very well be to late for Europe.

The comments drew a sharp response from the local chapter of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations, which called it anIslamophobic rant.

We call on Sheriff Murphree to reaffirm his pledge, and that of his officers, to serve and protect all Denton County residents regardless of their faith, ethnicity or national origin, Nikiya Natale, the chapters civil rights director, wrote on Facebook.We are concerned that someone obligated to provide equal justice for all holds such inaccurate, stereotypical and divisive views.

And while some of Murphrees supporters agreed with his comments, other residents were disturbed by them.

I was shocked, Denton resident Sarah Gramblin told the local NBC station. I dont trust that hes going to treat everyone equally under the law, and that really worries me.

Murphree had called his earlier comments on assaulting transgender people in restrooms a mistake, told the NBC station that his post was directed at terrorists and not the Muslim community.

I stand by everything I said in that post, he added. Im not backing off any word of it.

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Texas Sheriff Blames Manchester Attack On Gun Laws And Political Correctness - HuffPost

RALEIGH (ChurchMilitant.com) - The National Basketball Association (NBA) is announcing Charlotte, North Carolina will host the 2019 All-Star Game, after dropping the city from consideration in 2017 owing to the state's so-called transgender bathroom law.

Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, made the announcement at a press conference on May 24 that North Carolina could again host the 2019 All-Star Game since the highly-controversial House Bill 2 (HB2) was overturned in March 2017.

Passedin March 2016 by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, HB2 mandated that so-called transgender people must use the bathroom coinciding with the sex on their birth certificate. It raised a massive uproar among LGBT activists, causing celebrities,businessesandlawmakersto boycott the state over "transphobia."

In July 2016, the NBA announced it was moving its 2017 All-Star game from Charlotte to New Orleans, Louisiana in protest against HB2.

McCrory lost re-election in December to Democrat Roy Cooper, who promised to overturn HB2. As attorney general under McCrory, Cooper commented that HB2 made the state a "national embarrassment" that "will set North Carolina's economy back if we don't repeal it." He even refused to represent North Carolina when the Obama administration threatened to file a lawsuit against the state.

In March 2017, Cooper repealed HB2 but instituted a bill that LBGT activists claim keeps the "worst part" of HB2 intact. He approved HB142, which critics suggest Cooper rammed through the state legislature, is more "restrictive" than HB2 ever was since it bans cities and localities from instituting transgender bathroom policies for nearly four years as opposed to 180 days legislated in HB2.

A critic with the Charlotte Observer called HB142 "[A] betrayal of the promises the governor made to the LGBT community and a doubling down on discrimination by Republican legislators who have backed it all along," adding it "literally does not do one thing to protect the LGBT community and locks in HB2's most basic and offensive provision."

Silver noted that critics of HB142 may have a point but noted it "eliminates the most egregious aspects of the prior law." He added that all businesses associated with the 2019 All-Star Game are required to "apply a set of equality principles to ensure that every All-Star event will proceed with open access and anti-discrimination policies."

People, however, are growing weary of having politics mixed into sports. It has been reported that ESPN has been losing millions of viewers over hyper-politicization of its sports coverage had laid off over 100 people including on-camera talent.

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In a new interview with The Cardinal Newman Society, Dr. John McAdams vowed to fight a courts ruling that upholds Marquette Universitys right to fire him for defending a students freedom to speak moral truths. McAdams also accused Marquette of embracing political correctness before its Catholic mission.

In a ruling early this month, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Hansher dismissed McAdams claims against the university.The tenured political science professor was fired after he publicly criticized a philosophy instructor for preventing one of her students from voicing disagreement with same-sex marriage in an ethics class. The university claims McAdams crossed a line, because the instructor was a graduate student and off limits from public criticism.

In his interview with the Newman Society, McAdams explained to the Newman Society that he has a long history of criticizing the University and sometimes other faculty members for events he finds contrary to Marquettes Catholic identity. He has been writing actively on his blog,Marquette Warrior, since 2005 and has drawn attention to numerous abuses of Catholic identity.

Although the university has claimed its Catholic identity is flourishing, a number of faculty and staff members haveexpressed concernabout Marquettes dwindling Catholic identity and instances of Catholic teaching being discouraged and even silenced.

If you look at the institution itself, anytime secular political correctness conflicts with Catholic teaching, they go with secular political correctness, McAdams said.

Others agree with him. The Louis Joliet Society, a group of alumni that supports renewed Catholic identity at Marquette, released a statement on its Facebookpageand posed the question: Why is it that academic freedom, the shield that has been used to protect heretical faculty (particularly tenured faculty) at Catholic colleges and universities for nearly 50 years, is now suddenly the sword used to slay a professor who has consistently and publically stood up for truth, academic integrity and authentic Catholic identity?

McAdams, who is being represented by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, told the Newman Society that he will appeal the ruling.

Excerpts from McAdams interview with the Newman Society is below.

The Newman Society: Whats the next step for your case?

McAdams: Well appeal.

It wasnt a matter of a poor, green graduate student in her first class not knowing how to handle a discussion. It was an instructor who was simply intolerant of a certain viewpoint, who made it clear she would suppress it

The Newman Society: Considering the precedent, how are you feeling about the appeal?

McAdams: I fully expect to be vindicated by a higher court.

The Newman Society: What would you say is the state of Marquettes Catholic identity?

McAdams: Its little more than a marketing ploy.

You can find online the religious views of freshmen coming in. I think its still the case that a majority are Catholic, although not all of them.

Theres nothing wrong with a non-Catholic attending a Catholic university, but thats relevant because the average freshman coming in is going to have more Catholics as cohorts than they would at a state-run university today. On the other hand, not all Catholics are particularly serious Catholics, just as not all Protestants are particularly serious Protestants.

But if you look at the institution itself, anytime secular political correctness conflicts with Catholic teaching, they go with secular political correctness.

The bureaucracy is shot through with political correctness. There are tons of bureaucrats that have multicultural or diversity or inclusion in their titles, and theyre all committed to bringing politically correct speakers to campus, punishing people for politically incorrect speech.

The Newman Society: From your perspective as somebody whos taught in a Catholic university, what kind of discussions should be happening in classrooms at Catholic universities?

McAdams: For a real Catholic university, the center of gravity should be in the direction of Catholic teaching. That is to say, there should be a majority of faculty that accept Catholic teaching about marriage. There should be a majority of faculty that accept Catholic teaching about abortion or transgenderism.

The center of gravity has to be in a Catholic direction. But, if the center of gravity is in a secular direction such that people are scared to say that they think homosexual acts are sinful, that is dangerous.

The Newman Society: What can professors do to ensure that students can feel comfortable voicing Church teachings in the classroom?

McAdams: We can send the message that yes, you can have different opinions in my class. When I get reinstated which I certainly expect to be I will tell my students that. Academia generally sends the message that you can get in trouble if you say anything politically incorrect.

The Newman Society: What would be the main reason a professor at a Catholic university would not permit discussion in the classroom about things that are in line with the faith, i.e., opposition to same-sex marriage?

McAdams: Political correctness. [They] increasingly believe that opinions they dont like should be shut up.

The Newman Society: Would you teach at a Catholic university again?

McAdams: Sure. I love the students!

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Fired Marquette U. Professor Will Fight Court Ruling, 'Political Correctness' - The Cardinal Newman Society

Legendary actor and film director Clint Eastwood told a crowd at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday that political correctness is killing the entertainment industry.

The Western film icon, who was visiting the festival in southern France for a 25th anniversary screening of his 1992 film Unforgiven, said Americas obsession with political correctness started around the time of the release of his 1971 movie Dirty Harry,according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It was far-out at that time, so I brought it to [director] Don [Siegel], and he liked it, Mr. Eastwood said. A lot of people thought it was politically incorrect. That was at the beginning of the era that were in now with political correctness. We are killing ourselves, weve lost our sense of humor. But I thought it was interesting and it was daring.

Mr. Eastwood made the comments during a master class conducted by Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan. Mr. Eastwood, who went to Cannes to introduce the screening of Unforgiven, said he initially hadnt planned to sit through the entire movie.

I thought Id just sit through the first five minutes, but after a while I thought, This isnt so bad, so maybe Ill stay for it, he said, THR reported. I enjoyed it. I saw a lot of things that Id forgotten.

Mr. Eastwoods current movie project is The 15:17 to Paris, the Warner Bros. Pictures retelling of the 2015 heroics of three Americans who stopped an Islamic State attack on a train from Brussels to Paris.

Mr. Eastwood, who describes himself as libertarian, has been outspoken against political correctness in the past.

He told Esquire magazine in August that then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had been so successful in his campaign because everybodys getting tired of political correctness, kissing up.

Thats the kiss-ass generation were in right now. Were really in a p- generation. Everybodys walking on eggshells, the director said at the time.

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Clint Eastwood: 'We are killing ourselves' with political correctness - Washington Times