{"id":6046,"date":"2008-11-15T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/the-new-mccarthyism.html"},"modified":"2008-11-15T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T10:58:20","slug":"the-new-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/the-new-mccarthyism.html","title":{"rendered":"The New McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me that the city which fought so hard against McCarthyism would be so quickly embracing it:<embed src='http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/thunder\/swf30can10cbsnews\/rcpHolderCbs-3-4x3.swf' FlashVars='link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecbsnews%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2Fwatch%2F%3Fid%3D4601499n%253fsource%3Dsearch%5Fvideo&#038;partner=news&#038;vert=News&#038;autoPlayVid=false&#038;releaseURL=http:\/\/release.theplatform.com\/content.select?pid=FymmPpv1uv8EUv9BW0eiRSGzyierAzfh&#038;name=cbsPlayer&#038;allowScriptAccess=always&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;embedded=y&#038;scale=noscale&#038;rv=n&#038;salign=tl' allowFullScreen='true' width='425' height='324' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer'><\/embed><br \/><a href='http:\/\/www.cbs.com'>Watch CBS Videos Online<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianawest.net\/Home\/tabid\/36\/EntryID\/578\/Default.aspx\">The restaurant in the report is owned by a Mormon who employs gays and who has donated to LGBT charities and organizations and even promised to donate even more just to avoid a strike.<\/a> She only donated a hundred dollars and now the new McCarthyites are ready to string her up for her religious conviction. Of course I see the similarities here between gays boycotting restaurants that contributed to Prop. 8 organizations and the Christians boycotting McDonald&#8217;s but there is one huge difference since there is a clear intent to suppress political speech of individuals  going on here (political contributions are political speech), clearly the New McCarthyites want to intimidate their opponents into silence and acquiescence. That should concern all fair minded Americans regardless of what side of the issue they&#8217;re on.(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/14\/quote-of-the-day-398\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing to me that the city which fought so hard against McCarthyism would be so quickly embracing it:Watch CBS Videos OnlineThe restaurant in the report is owned by a Mormon who employs gays and who has donated to LGBT charities and organizations and even promised to donate even more just to avoid a strike.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2","category-religion-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The New McCarthyism - 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