It's Religion Not Faith

I know a few people that have strong religious beliefs and that fine to a point. But what they are out on in the picture is that on legal level if allowed, this will snow ball in to something far worse. Example: A black family tries to buy a house in a predominantly white Mormon town, the bank, and realtor are owned by Mormons. The family meets all of the legal and financial qualifications, but because of their skin color. Now the the family is protected against this by federal law and can prove that race based discrimination was the cause here. But they still could lose in court based off of a religious belief from the early days of the Mormon religion, that people of dark skin were considered to be cursed by god. Meaning that the bank and the realtor can legally use racist practices under the protection of their religious beliefs. That's why this thing in Kentucky is so dangerous, if she gets to keep her job and continues to denies those marriage licenses more of this will spread into other segments of society. I wonder how Canada handles this crap?

Not so Civil

For months now the Confederate Flag has been in the center of a lot if debates. Myself being a southerner, I don't really care about the heritage talking points that everyone keeps bringing up. To me the flag belongs in a museum and not just because a few racist morons like to wear and wave it with pride. Neither the fact that it's linked with slavery or how it was as symbol of the Jim Crow area. Nope, it's the fact that the flag comes from treason and should not be honored as something of pride. When I think about the "Civil War" and what really started it, which was taxes not slavery. The South  at the time produced a large sum of the country's exported goods, mainly cotton and tobacco. The North wanted more of a tax contribution from the southern states, but those states did not agree nor like this idea as it would take away from their profits. Keep in mind that most of the cotton and tobacco was picked and handled by slave labor, which in today's world would be the equivalent of owning framing equipment or robots. Meaning that the slaves were nothing tools to be bought and sold or just flat replaced. Only given the minimal for housing, food and clothing with no real structured compensation or freedom not even looked at as human beings. The plantation owners didn't have to worry about paying competitive wages, 401k and healthcare cost, making their labor costs lower. This meant that more money went back to them and the trade, but they felt paying more in taxes was unfair and that the northern states were being oppressive. Now when looking at it from this area, the South sounds a lot like the rich do today. The same people who go on TV and claim that paying higher taxes is more of a punishment for their financial success. This was not a rebellion about freedom from a greedy over reaching system of government, that people are romanticizing as history. It was a bunch greedy rich people not wanting to pay taxes and thought that they held enough power to force change. In many ways the Civil War would help set a blueprint for how big business can influence the government and it's many nuances for making policy today. A treasonist flag for a group of greedy money grabbing hypocrites, that only cared about themselves, not freedom. 

                                      Take the flag down and let's move forward together.