Gay Brownshirts to Poor: Drop Dead

from Stand Firm by David Fischler 

In some quarters, there is nothing more important than forcing everyone in America to approve of and support homosexual behavior–absolutely nothing. As Exhibit A, I offer this item from Campus Reform that comes to us courtesy of the student government at the University of California at Berkeley:

The student government at the University of California-Berkeley (CAL) passed a resolution last month that would ban Salvation Army bell ringers and their iconic red kettles from campus this Christmas because of the Christian organization’s alleged bias against homosexuality.
The resolution, cleared on November 14, accuses the charity of openly discriminating against gay individuals.
“Salvation Army church services, including charity services, are available only to people ‘who accept and abide by the Salvation Army’s doctrine and discipline,’ which excludes homosexuality,” reads the bill, SB 176.

This is patent, utter nonsense, and a calumny on the reputation of one of America’s finest charities. But if there’s one thing that will never get in the way of an outrageously outraged student activist, it’s the truth.

In the resolution, the student body also demands school administrators revoke the Salvation Army’s permit, which currently allows them to collect donations on the Berkeley campus.
“Allowing the Salvation Army to collect donations on campus is a form of financial assistance that empowers the organization to spend the money it raises here in order to discriminate and advocate discrimination against queer people,” it adds.

So in addition to persecuting the Salvation Army for its religious beliefs and spreading lies about the way it does its charitable work, the student government also throws poor people under the bus. Do homeless, hungry, or unemployed people find a helping hand at the Salvation Army? Doesn’t matter, since the Army teaches that homosexual behavior is not the greatest thing since legal marijuana.

According to the bill, the student government also wants to formally express “disapproval of the presence of Salvation Army donation containers on campus” because “queer students…may take offense to the presence of collection containers operated by a discriminator religious organization in their places of living.”

And heaven forbid there should be anything–anything!–on the UC-Berkeley campus that might give offense to “queer” (a term that used to be the equivalent of the “N” word, until gays decided it wasn’t) students. Like, I don’t know…people who disagree with them, perhaps?
Brownshirts, indeed.