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The Left’s War on Free Speech, Religious Freedom Marches On

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A law in the city of Phoenix, Arizona is designed to censor artists and punish them for engaging in speech the state disapproves of.

Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, met at a Bible study for young adults and decided to start a small business, Brush and Nib Studio, which creates customized hand painting, hand lettering, and calligraphy for weddings and other events. When they started Brush and Nib, Joanna and Breanna didn’t leave their artistic and religious beliefs behind. Those beliefs provide their business its very purpose—to use their artistic talents full-time to proclaim their vision of what is good and beautiful.

If they dare disobey, Phoenix can incarcerate them for six months and fine them up to $2,500 for each day of disobedience.

But shortly after starting their business, Joanna and Breanna discovered that Phoenix law requires them to create art endorsing same-sex wedding ceremonies because they create art for opposite-sex wedding ceremonies. The same law prohibits Joanna and Breanna from publishing statements explaining the artistic and religious beliefs that require them to only create art consistent with their religious belief supporting one-man/one-woman marriage.

If they dare disobey, Phoenix can incarcerate them for six months and fine them up to $2,500 for each day of disobedience.

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  2. Anarcho-tyranny: if you’re a well-connected banker or government official and you abuse your office, make decisions you know will cause damage, wrecklessly shuffle classified materials hither and yon – you may get a wrist slap and golden handshake on the way to cushy retirement.

    If you’re one of the proles and dare to not get with the program or commit some chicken-sh$$ infraction (like rolling a stop sign with no conflicting traffic or having a torn window screen on your hovel*), you will feel the full weight of the cultural marxist/government.

    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. Orwell in 1984

    * One of the very few legitimate gripes to come up during the Ferguson ructions was that police in the various towns were issuing citations for all manner of minor infractions that poor residents couldn’t pay – resulting in more fines and fees until the subject’s life was wrecked… kind of like how the banks were arranging debits and credits to maximize overdraft and late charges.

    I’m a right-wing bastard but there were stories coming out of St Louis that made my blood boil