January 15, 2016::End of the day round-up

Here Are The Walmarts That Are Shutting Down, And When They Will Close For Good

Gary Johnson, 2012 Libertarian presidential candidate, will run in 2016

Gary Johnson, a two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who became the Libertarian Party's 2012 presidential nominee, will officially announce his 2016 campaign on Fox News on Wednesday.

"It was kind of a commitment from the last go-round that I made to a lot of people," said Johnson in an interview with the Washington Post. "The idea was, if I do well enough, I'll run again. I’ll be the first one to say that I don’t think I did very well at all! But everyone else has said otherwise, that it was a very successful, very significant campaign for the party."

In 2012, Johnson won 1,275,923 votes for president, the highest overall vote total in the party's 40-year history. Yet while Johnson had long been a dream candidate for Libertarians, dating back to his early embrace of decriminalized marijuana, he only made the run after a marginalized and disappointing GOP primary campaign. Johnson was kept out of most televised debates, and "liberty movement" voters largely swung behind the campaign of then-Texas Rep. Ron Paul.

David Barton, John Locke’s Two Treatises, and the Real Reason Thomas Nelson Pulled the Jefferson Lies

In a previous post, I asked Locke scholar Greg Forster to evaluate this claim. Forster declared it to be completely false. In fact, Locke did not refer to the Bible 1500 separate times nor did he invoke 1500 Bible verses, as Barton sometimes claims. Apparently, Barton’ staff had to count all 900+ verses from the books of Proverbs to get to 1500. See this prior post for what it appears Barton had to do to get to the 1500 number. It should be clear that Barton’s claim is wildly inflated.

Stop with the fucking lies already!! Both Regnerus and Sullins have been thoroughly trashed and not worth the paper they are written on.

Why Bible-Believing Christians May Want to Drop Allstate Right Now

The Allstate promotion does not share the reality that this child will grow up without the nurture that only a mother can provide. Nor does Allstate recognize the emotional trauma and questions this child will endure growing up in a home with two men.

Studies predominantly show that children raised in homosexual environments tend to struggle emotionally more than their peers, are highly more susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse and often suffer severe depression as young adults.

 There is only one problem with this statement,

The bill quotes remarks from the dissenting justices in the case, and notes that “natural marriage has been recognized and regulated by the states since the founding of America,” and that “English common law was the source of the early American common law.”

as noted by Justice Ginsburg (10-11),,,

You wouldn’t be asking for this relief if the law of marriage was what it was a millennium ago. I mean, it wasn’t possible. Same-sex unions would not have opted into the pattern of marriage, which was a relationship, a dominant and a subordinate relationship. Yes, it was marriage between a man and a woman, but the man decided where the couple would be domiciled; it was her obligation to follow him.

There was a change in the institution of marriage to make it egalitarian when it wasn’t egalitarian. And same-sex unions wouldn’t — wouldn’t fit into what marriage was once.

Until recently, the legal institution of marriage was defined in terms of gender roles. But marriage is no longer bound to those gender roles and when those gender roles are removed, the case for marriage discrimination is eliminated.  [See also: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/04/29/3652468/justice-ginsburg-eviscerates-case-marriage-equality-just-five-sentences/]

So in other words, the definition of marriage has already been changed.

South Carolina Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Interpose Against Supreme Court Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Ruling 

Rep. Bill Chumley, R-Woodruff, and Rep. Mike Burns, R-Taylors, recently filed Bill 4513 in the General Assembly, otherwise known as the South Carolina Natural Marriage Defense Act.

“[I]n Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015), five justices of the United States Supreme Court issued a lawless opinion with no basis in American law or history, purporting to overturn natural marriage and find a ‘right’ to same-sex ‘marriage’ in the United States Constitution and the fourteenth amendment,” it reads in part.

The bill quotes remarks from the dissenting justices in the case, and notes that “natural marriage has been recognized and regulated by the states since the founding of America,” and that “English common law was the source of the early American common law.”