News Weakly - 5/19/2018

The New "Religious Bigot"
Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, was asked to give the prayer that opened the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem this week. Mitt Romney protested. Jeffress, a "Christian Zionist" who is a strong supporter of Israel, has stated that neither Judaism nor Islam saves -- Jesus does -- and Mormonism was wrong. In other words, Jeffress is a religious bigot because he believes what his Bible tells him -- he believes his religion. By that standard Jesus was a "religious bigot" when He said, "No man comes to the Father but by Me" (John 14:6) and Peter was a "religious bigot" when he declared, "There is no other name given under heaven among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:12) And I suppose that either Mitt Romney is a religious bigot ... or he doesn't believe his religion.

(Side note: When I read that Jeffress is "an adviser to President Trump", it was the first time I had any hope that Trump might have some good input.)

You Asked for it, You got it
We need to fight homelessness. We need to help people with nowhere to live and no money to change that. We need to do it "without jeopardizing critical jobs." Seattle figured out how. Raise $48 million a year by taxing big companies like Amazon and Starbucks $275 per employee. "Wait ... what??!!" say Amazon and Starbucks. Seattle, who has led the way on forcing new laws about "$15/hr minimum wage" for a living wage is now going to ... wait for it ... tax the rich. We'll see how that works out for Seattle. I think their claim that they address the problem "without jeopardizing critical jobs" might be accurate, but a prime insult to all the Amazon/Starbucks-type employees who could lose their jobs. "We want to help the poor; just not on our backs." Don't push back too hard, big business. The original proposal was $500 per employee and they still might ask for it.

Found in Passing
I came across this story while reading another story that I was sent to by another story. You may not know the name -- Scot Peterson -- but you know the guy. He was the armed sheriff's deputy on duty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when the shooting started. He stayed outside and warned other arriving police to do the same. Well, he took this "opportunity" to resign and, subsequently, retire and, since there were no criminal charges filed against him for failing to do his job, he's now collecting a pension of $8,702.35 a month. Show up, don't do your job, get well paid. Good work if you can get it.

Headed for the End of the World
We're headed in the right direction ... if the right direction is the end of the human race. At least, here in the U.S. The lowest recorded number of births in 30 years was recorded in the U.S. in 2017. The birthrate is now 1.76. Logically, 2.0 would be a replacement birthrate (since normally 2 people produce a child so 2 children would ... well, you get the math). Practically, taking into account infant deaths and such, they tell us that a birthrate like 2.1-2.2 would be required to keep the human population going. Fortunately, both the U.S. and Europe have all managed to drop that rate to allow us to aim for zero population. "Good going, people. I hope Jesus comes back before you succeed in erasing humanity," he said (with tongue firmly in cheek).

California Concealed Carry Violation
A San Francisco resident was arrested recently for violating Conceal Carry laws. Californians can't carry concealed material that contradicts the far-left Californian agendas, and this guy was caught with a Bible in his pocket. "'We have been able to confirm that the Bible he was carrying contained dangerously bigoted passages, and was not properly stored and secured in a fingerprint-locked Bible cover,' San Francisco Police Chief William 'Bill' Scott said." Bail was set at $250,000.

Must be true; I read it on the Internet.