#Immigration: Illegal aliens in House Judiciary Committee room during hearing today. How can we secure border if we can’t secure our room?

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) May 22, 2013

From Infowars.com…

Republican Congressman Steve King isn’t one to mince words, especially when it comes to the immigration reform bill. So the Tweet he posted Thursday calling out “illegal aliens” who were in attendance during the committee meeting shouldn’t have surprised anyone.

So far we’ve heard a lot about the Gang of Eight and how they’ve heroically banded together and reached a bipartisan agreement to create the ultimate Path to Citizenship for the 11.5 million illegal aliens within our borders. You almost hear angels singing in the background every time their names are mentioned.

But there’s a flip side to every coin and soon, as the bill makes its way to the House, the alternative-Gang of Eight, the anti-amnesty team, will be fielding their own A-team led by Rep. Steve King of Iowa and his second-in-command, Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas.

Together the two make a formidable team, but they’re not alone. They’ll be accompanied by Rep. Mo Brooks (Ala.), Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), Lou Barletta (Pa.), Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas, Rep. John Flemin (La.) and Rep. Paul Gosar (Ariz.)
King takes a strong stand against the current immigration initiative on his website and he believes our first and foremost focus should be on securing and controlling our borders:

“It is troubling that the levels of illegal immigration continue to rise and that the Rule of Law is not being enforced. I believe we only encourage illegal immigration by discussing amnesty for the 12-20 million illegal immigrants living in the United States today. I adamantly oppose amnesty, regardless of the guise under which it is presented. Amnesty pardons immigration lawbreakers and rewards them with the objective of their crime—citizenship.”

Photo from UK Mail Online

A Kenyan who murdered as many as 400 people was granted asylum, free housing, and other welfare benefits in Britain. The man is part of Mungiki, which is a combination religious cult and organized crime syndicate.

The groups started in the 1980′s as a militia to protect ethnic Kikuyu farmers from members of rival tribes. The group expanded in Nairobi and became an organized crime syndicate.

From UK Mail Online…

A murderer who killed up to 400 people in his homeland has been granted asylum in Britain.

John Thuo, 27, who butchered many of his victims in machete attacks in his native Kenya, has spent a decade living here in rent-free accommodation provided by the National Asylum Support Service.

He is believed to receive an allowance of up to £160 a month from the service, the Home Office unit responsible for asylum seekers’ housing.

Thuo, who was a member of the outlawed Mungiki sect in Kenya, admitted at an immigration tribunal that he killed ‘about 100 to 400 people’.

He also took part in female genital mutilation.

He was granted leave to remain in the UK for three years after an appeal, under the Human Rights Act, to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

He says deporting him would infringe his human rights because he would face execution by the sect on his return.
Approached at his home in suburban Coventry, where neighbours knew nothing about his brutal history, he said: ‘It’s true – I killed a lot of people. I don’t like talking about my past. I feel guilty for what I’ve done. I feel remorse.’

Thuo, who has done a stint as a removal man in the UK, said: ‘I’ve started a new life here and I’m looking for regular work. If I go back, they’ll behead me.’

Asked if he is monitored by the Home Office, he said: ‘No, I don’t have to meet anyone. I’m free.’

Reports are being posted online that large numbers of young Swedish men are now patrolling Stockholm and battling with the Muslim rioters.

The Swedish media states that a large number of police mobilized to prevent “50 right-wing extremists” from patrolling the streets of Tumba, a suburb of Stockholm.

This picture is allegedly Swedish nationalists who gathered in Stockholm to patrol the streets, after the police chief admitted they were dong nothing to stop the riots.

This is a huge 5,000 person “exclusionary zone,” where Muslim immigrants have driven out white people with beatings and intimidation. Police are afraid to enter and gangs patrol the streets to enforce Sharia law.

From TheNewObservor…

An area only two kilometers (1.4 miles) from the city center of the Dutch capital The Hague has been so thoroughly colonized by Third World invaders that it has become “orthodox Muslim territory” into which not even the Dutch police dare venture, it has been reported.

Last Tuesday, social affairs minister Lodewijk Asscher and well-known Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders paid separate visits to the area, and are scheduled to report to the Dutch parliament next week.

The area, Schilderswijk, is known locally as “the Sharia triangle”, is being run by an unofficial Sharia police force.
The almost entirely Muslim population of some 5,000 people surrounds the El Islam mosque, and has effectively ethnically cleansed the area of all native white Dutch people by simply threatening them until they left.

One recent investigation, in which local people were extensively interviewed, concluded that Schilderswijk had become “orthodox Muslim territory” which was now largely ignored by the city authorities, by politicians and even by the police, on the grounds that it had become self-regulating.

Rayella Parr, who stands four feet nine inches, is the Crown’s main witness in the trial of three men accused of invading Parr’s home.

Andrew Owusu, Fred Agbefe and Agazzy Haddish are all charged with unlawfully being in a home, use of an imitation firearm, unlawful confinement and assault.

Haddish is also charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and flight from police from events the same day.

The three were characterized by Crown lawyer Neil Flanagan as “gun guy,” “Taser guy” and “zap-strap guy” for their alleged roles in the incident nearly three years ago at an up-and-down duplex in the Nicola Valley city.

The home had a small safe inside, where Parr told the court she put anything of value, including marijuana, to keep it out of the hands of one of her grown sons, who was a crack cocaine addict.

Parr testified Wednesday she was watching television and having a coffee on a Monday morning when she heard a knock on her front door.

After yelling from her couch for the visitor to come in, a black man about 40 years old walked in clad in overalls, hardhat and high-visibility safety vest.

“He said he was from B.C. Gas, there was a gas leak in the area and he would check my meter,” Parr told the 12-person jury.

Graphic from BBC

Efforts by the US, Canadian, and European media to demonize Germany have failed.

Note: This is the same poll that revealed Mexicans overwhelmingly dislike the United States in 2010. The exact opposite of the US media and politicians say.

From BBC…

Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year’s annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service.

More than 26,000 people were surveyed internationally for the poll.

They were asked to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the world was “mainly positive” or “mainly negative”.

Germany came out top, with 59% rating it positively. Iran was once again the most negatively viewed.

Global views of Europe’s biggest country have improved significantly in 2013, according to the poll.

It was conducted for the BBC by GlobeScan and PIPA, who conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews with randomly selected people in 25 countries.

Photo from friatider.se

The Stockholm police say it is to dangerous to fight the rioting Muslim immigrants. However, they are issuing revenue generating parking tickets to victims of destroyed automobiles.

Over 150 cars have been completely destroyed. By night the authorities cower in fear, by day they come out to ticket the victims.

From FriaTider.se…

But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.

”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”

Swedish parking laws, however, continue to be rigidly enforced despite the increasingly chaotic situation. Early Wednesday, while documenting the destruction after a night of rioting in the Stockholm suburb of Alby, a reporter from Fria Tider observed a parking enforcement officer writing a ticket for a burnt-out Ford.

When questioned, the officer explained that the ticket was issued because the vehicle lacked a tag showing its time of arrival. The fact that the vehicle had been effectively destroyed – its windshield smashed and the interior heavily damaged by fire – was irrelevant according to the meter maid, who asked Fria Tider’s photographer to destroy the photos he had taken. Her employer, the parking company P-service, refused to comment when Fria Tider contacted them on Wednesday afternoon.

This is no small feat, considering facebook routinely deletes these sorts of pages once they hit 500 followers.

The people behind AWHM also launched a youtube channel in March, and are starting their own social media site.

UK Guardian – Riots continue for fifth night

UK Guardian – Riots continue for fourth night

This man is a protected minority and is not committing a thought crime. However, you can be charged with a crime for criticizing him.

British police in Avon and Somerset conducted nighttime raids to arrest two men for anti-Muslim thought crime on twitter. Police say charges are pending under the anti-thought crimes, Public Order Act.

Police threatened more thought crimes charges and demanded that the public “stop and think about what they say on social media.”

This is the same Britain where Muslim immigrants are allowed ave Al-Qaeda flag in public and scream death threats at the British people with impunity.

From UK Independent…

Two men have been released on bail after their arrest for allegedly making offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich.

by Kyle Rogers

Photo Right: The Latvian band Skyforger incorporates traditional instruments with guitars and sings uplifting songs about regional folklore.

Celtic, classical, and various other forms of traditional European folk music are being re-introduced by modern heavy metal bands. Especially in Europe.

Members of the Swiss based Eluveitie dress like Gallic warriors in concerts. They play heart-pounding “death metal” infused with uplifting traditional Celtic music. Their lyrics are about Celtic mythologies and holidays. Some of their songs are sung in an extinct Continental Celtic dialect.

The cultural resurgence is not limited to just the style of music. Kari Reuslatten, a leading female pop star in Norway, was attacked by the “mainstream media” in Norway for being “too nationalistic” for her songs praising Norwegian culture. She also recorded heavy metal remakes of traditional Norwegian folk songs. Liv Krull, another well-known Norwegian singer recently dedicated an entire album to the story of Leif Ericson.

Despite Norway’s far-left socialist government which outlaws freedom of speech and condemns the displaying of its own flag as “an ultra-nationalist provocation,” much of Norway’s popular music is crying out for Norwegians to return to their cultural roots.

In Finland, the band Amorphis has dominated charts for well over a decade. Each album combines Finnish folktales and mythologies with intricate and talented guitar work. Their albums have created interest in Finnish history among legions of fans in Europe and North America. I was fortunate to see Amorphis live on one of their American tours.

Another Finnish band Korpiklaani sings about Finnish folklore and incorporates traditional folk music. Below they perform a song at a major outdoor music festival in Europe.

Bands from every corner of Europe, from Portugal to Russia, that are embracing uplifting styles of music and moving lyrics about our heritage.

While most “neo-traditional” bands are from Europe. The Los Angeles based band Flogging Molly incorporates traditional Celtic and Irish Pub-style music with modern heavy metal. They pack huge venues with all white audiences ranging from teenagers to people in their 40′s and 50′s. Lately they have been including in major outdoor festival tours. Many fans even wear kilts to their concerts. I have seen them live three times. Their live performances are phenomenal and will ruin the albums for you.

Other culture resurgent-based bands you may like are Tyr from the Faeroe Islands, Otyg from Norway, In Extremo from Germany, Arkona from Russia, Skyforger from Latvia, Heidevolk from the Netherlands, Thompson from Croatia and many more. Many bands buck the established major label protocol of singing all their songs in English.

A white applicant with a LSAT of 170 and 3.9 GPA would receive two denials, one acceptance, and eleven considerations.

From NBC News…

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, said Holder had agreed to review Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists.

“I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable,” Obama said. “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs.”

Rosen, who has not been charged in the case, was nonetheless the target of a search warrant that enabled Justice Department investigators to secretly seize his private emails after an FBI agent said he had “asked, solicited and encouraged … (a source) to disclose sensitive United States internal documents and intelligence information.”

Turkish PM at mega-mosque ground breaking ceremony on May 16th, 2013. Completely censored by the “mainstream media.”

Turkish press says Islamic complex in Maryland will be “a monument to Turkey”

The Prime Minister of Turkey was just in Maryland for a groundbreaking ceremony for a giant mosque and Islamic outreach center. The complex will be called the “Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center.” The mosque is receiving much of it’s funding from Turkey. Across the United States Saudi Arabia and Turkey are funding mosques, filling public libraries with pro-Islam books, and operating Muslim outreach programs.

The media completely censored the event.

Both Turkey and Saudi Arabia are routinely showered with billions in economic and military aid, grants, and loans. The US taxpayers are forced to subsidize Turkey and Saudi Arabia, while some of that money to comes back to the US to fund the growth of Islam.

The US also loans nuclear weapons to Turkey, making the the increasingly radical Sunni Islam nation a nuclear power.

The Turkish Prime Minister also hinted that the Obama administration gave money to the project.

“I thank the US administration, Turkish Directorate General of Religious Affairs, officials of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, and all philanthropists for supporting this project” said Turkish PM Erdogan.

This is the same Turkish Prime minister, who in 2007 stated that their is no such thing as “moderate Islam.”

“These descriptions [moderate Islam] are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.” – PM Erdogan

Read more at TurkishPress.com

The center will feature numerous buildings and a giant Turkish style mosque.

From UK Mail Online…

Women should stay at home and have three or four children to help solve Germany’s predicted population crisis, according to a cardinal.

Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, has criticised German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy of trying to attract immigrants to work in the country.

He said women should be encouraged to produce more children to increase the German population and said Merkel was using immigration to solve Germany’s demographic problems.

In a wide-ranging attack on Merkel’s policies, the cardinal told German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung: ‘We are a dying people but have a perfect legislation for abortion. Is not that the suicide of society?’

Germany has the lowest birth rate in Europe at just 1.36 children per woman and forecasters predict the country’s 83million population will shrink to 70million by 2050 if the birth date does not increase.

Cardinal Meisner, 79, said: ‘Where are women really encouraged publicly to stay at home and bring three, four children into the world?

‘This is what we should do and not – as Mrs Merkel is doing now – only present immigration as a solution to our demographic problems,’ he said in an interview with Stuttgarter Zeitung.

Ed Milliband

The immigrant son of two Marxist leaders fights to hold the 3rd world floodgate open in Britain

Ed Milliband is the leader of the Labour party and Britian’s biggest cheerleader for open borders. Both of his parents were hard-core Marxist leaders. His father was a Polish Jew who immigrated first to Belgium and then to Britain. His father’s name was Adolph “Ralph” Milliband and he taught Frankfurt School style Marxism at universities in Belgium and Britain.

His mother was also a Polish Jew who was involved in numerous Marxist and far-left causes. She was involved with Joe Slovo of the South African Communist party and far-left pro-Palestinian groups. She was a founding member of “Jews for Justice for the Palestinians.”

Milliband’s mother was a loyal supporter of the Labour Party, while his father rejected Labour for the openly Marxist “New Left” movement. The New Left believed that the “critical theory” of the Frankfurst School would bring about Marxist revolution in Britain.

Milliband misappropriates the Holocaust as a political weapon for the British left

Milliband constantly wraps his open borders message with the Holocaust. He says his parents came to Britain to escape the holocaust and insinuates that anyone who doesn’t want open border is not sympathetic to Holocaust victims. Milliband constantly claims that his parents would have been killed by the Nazi regime had it not been for Britain’s open border. Based on historical records, this statement is false. His mother was sheltered from the Nazis by a Polish convent. His father was left Belgium in 1940. He resided in Flanders, which refused to turn over its Jewish citizens to Nazi custody. He was not actually in danger of being sent to a concentration camp.

Read more and see cell phone pictures.

However, there are still a large number of radical left-wing reporters who pretend like the group is a legitimate “expert sources.”

Roan Garcia-Quintana  was recently chosen to be part of a 160 member re-election steering committee for South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.

The SPLC releasing a foaming at the mouth diatribe, denouncing Garcia-Quintana as an “anti-immigrant extremist” who is helping “South Carolina’s first non-white governor” get re-elected.

Related: SPLC is also agitating for the DOD to fire man for attending American Renaissance conference

The SPLC is agitating for the Department of Defense to fire a chemical engineer because he attended the recent American Renaissance conference. In a statement, the SPLC insinuates that the man’s security clearance should be pulled because he attended the conference.

The SPLC quoted the website of a violent left-wing gang network as their source of information on the man. The gang is known both as ARA and Antifa, and the website quoted by the SPLC is an umbrella site for the international gang networks American affiliates. The webmaster is currently being sued for tortuous interference, and was also present at the scene of a violent felony assault by a fellow gang member last year. The webmaster was also present along side two different people waving signs calling for murder outside the same American Renaissance conference. One sign called for the murder of political opponents and had a picture of an AK-47 rifle. Another sign called for the murder of ethnic Germans. The group was recently classified as criminal gang by the Cook County sheriff’s department (Chicago).

Recently, SPLC spokesman Mark Potok denounced this very same gang as “doing more harm than good.” Yet, despite the fact that their own spokesman denounced the gang, the SPLC website continues to routinely promote the gang, link to the website, and interview the gang’s main leaders.

The SPLC has a history of trying to get people fired from their jobs.

The fact is the Swedes have spent huge amounts of money to create jobs for the immigrants. Most refuse to work the job, preferring the lavish welfare benefits and crime.

Sweden has one of the best job markets in the world. The rioting thugs could easily get jobs. They simply do not want to work.

The rioters are all Muslim immigrants. The majority are Somalians, who represent the most violent immigrant group in Sweden. Recently, all 9th grade males at the Rinkeby housing project were surveyed. The population in Rinkeby is 90% immigrant, and majority Somalian. A staggering 17% of all 9th grade males in the housing project admitted to having already committed at least one forcible rape.

Enoch Powell

The British people were never given an opportunity to vote on whether they wanted to be a multicultural/multiracial society, or what kinds of immigrants they would be willing to accept. Even the mainstream media in Britain now admits that the left-wing flooded Britain with immigrants as a means of staying in power. They knew immigrants would collect welfare and become left-wing voters.

In the recent British election UKIP went from a tiny party that rarely gets more than 5% in any election, to getting 23% of the total vote. This is because they took a hard line on immigration.

UKIP was founded by ex-Tory members, who felt the party had betrayed their conservative supporters.

For decades former Tory Party icon Enoch Powell has been demonized as a “racist.” However, everything he predicted has come true.

The victim is being treated at a local hospital. The media is not mentioning Saunders III past criminal record. Based on his tattoos alone, he probably has a serious criminal history and was coddled by the system.

The shooting took place in Columbus, Ohio.

Chokwe Lumumba

Outspoken black racial separatist poised to be mayor of a major US city.

Chokwe Lumumba is currently the Jackson, MS city council member for ward 2. He won his city council seat in 2009 with 61% of the vote. His victory was huge news in all the black power publications and websites. Now he has won the Democrat primary to be the party’s mayoral candidate.

The primary was divided by race. Polls suggest that most black Democrats voted for Lumumba, and most white Democrats voted for black businessman Jonathan Lee.

Chokwe Lumumba is the chairman of New African Peoples Organization. This is a Marcus Garvey style group and seeks to create an independent black nation in the deep south. He is co-founder of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. This group was a co-sponsor of the recent “Occupy the Justice Department” rally in DC. At least two of the speakers called for violence and murder. The phone number for the Jackson, MS chapter of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is the same phone number for the Lumumba city council campaign. Lumumba has referred to himself as a “citizen of the Republic of New Africa.” He was a member of something called the “Black Legionnaires of RNA” in the 70s.

In 2010 Chokwe Lumumba spoke at the New Black Panther Party “Black Power Conference” in Atlanta. The NBPP is paramilitary splinter group of the Nation of Islam. They claim to be conducting military drills and building a “black army.” The group’s theology states that all white people in North America will be exterminated in the near future.

Lumumba is also a major “reparations” activist. “We’re seeking reparations for abuse. We’re seeking reparations for abuse as a nation of people. Our statute of limitations has not run out. The statute of liberation is running right now at this very moment today.” – Chokwe Lumumba

Chokwe Lumumba at a meeting of black power radicals in the Jackson area.

As the ANC strips wealth from the whites who built South Africa, the money is simply going to the Asian population. The Asians are the traditional merchant class of South Africa. Asian incomes have soared, white white incomes plummet, and black incomes have remained flat.

From BBC…

Ernst Roets, a leading Afrikaans campaigner from the AfriForum organisation, took me to a squatter camp outside the country’s capital, Pretoria. A white squatter camp.

It has been set up on the property of a sympathetic white farmer and is called, optimistically, Sonskyn Hoekie – Sunshine Corner.

There are broken-down cars and bits of discarded furniture everywhere. Beyond the wooden shacks lie ditches and pools of dirty, stagnant water where mosquitoes breed. Two basic toilets serve the whole camp.

According to Roets there are 80 white squatter camps – many of them bigger than this – in the Pretoria area alone. Across South Africa as a whole he believes there could be as many as 400,000 poor whites in conditions like these.

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Semi-skilled white people have little chance of getting a job when so many black South Africans are unemployed.

There is another group of white Afrikaners, far higher up the social scale, who are deeply threatened – in this case, literally. Virtually every week the press here report the murders of white farmers, though you will not hear much about it in the media outside South Africa.

In South Africa you are twice as likely to be murdered if you are a white farmer than if you are a police officer – and the police here have a particularly dangerous life. The killings of farmers are often particularly brutal.

Vice President Joe Biden

Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United State praised American Jews for playing leading roles in the fight for homosexual marriage, open borders, feminism, “social justice,” and more. Biden said that Jews were one of the biggest factors, if not the single biggest, driving social change in the United States.

Speaking at the Jewish Heritage Month reception of the Democratic National Committee, Joe Biden credited Jewish people in Hollywood for changing the culture of America. He said Jews are responsible for 85% of America’s changing attitude on homosexual marriage. “Think — behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media, are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry.”

“Jewish heritage has shaped who we are – all of us, us, me – as much or more than any other factor in the last 223 years. And that’s a fact,” said Biden.

Joe Biden also credited Jews with playing a major role in the feminist movement and changing America’s immigration policies to allow for massive third world immigration. Biden also praised Jews for playing a leading role in getting the Civil Rights Acts passed that mandated affirmative action policies and special privileges for minorities.

Speaking on Jewish political power, Biden stated ”the Jewish people have contributed greatly to America. No group has had such an outsized influence per capita as all of you standing before you, and all of those who went before me and all of those who went before you.”

Biden also praised all three Jewish Supreme Court justices by name. Biden ended his twenty minute speech to Jewish leaders by saying “we owe you, we owe generations who came before you.”

New York Magazine: Biden is correct, but talking about it is bad for Jews that he said it.

Female Episcolpal/Anglican leader, Katharine Jefferts Schori, deeclares the Apostle Paul is a bigot and denigrates Western Civilization.

Katharine Jefferts Schori is the first female head of the American Episcopal church and the first female elected as a primate of the Anglican Communion.

Speaking in Venezuala, Katharine Jefferts Schori denounced the Apostle Paul. She appears to be attacking Paul as pro-slavery and anti-homosexual. She insinuated that all cultures around the world are equal, thus devaluing Christianity.

She said that the “only road to the kingdom of God” is for man to change his way and accept gay marriage and multiculturalism.

Click here to read the entire “sermon.”

Gee, why are the Episcopal and Anglican churches rapidly losing members and dying out?

From Anglican Ink…

The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has denounced the Apostle Paul as mean-spirited and bigoted for having released a slave girl from demonic bondage as reported in Acts 16:16-34 .

In her sermon delivered at All Saints Church in Curaçao in the diocese of Venezuela, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori condemned those who did not share her views as enemies of the Holy Spirit.

The presiding bishop opened her remarks with an observation on the Dutch slave past. “The history of this place tells some tragic stories about the inability of some to see the beauty in other skin colors or the treasure of cultures they didn’t value or understand,” she said.

She continued stating: “Human beings have a long history of discounting and devaluing difference, finding it offensive or even evil.  That kind of blindness is what leads to oppression, slavery, and often, war.  Yet there remains a holier impulse in human life toward freedom, dignity, and the full flourishing of those who have been kept apart or on the margins of human communities.”

Just as the forces of historical inevitability led to the ending of industrial slavery, so too would the march of progress lead to a change in attitude towards homosexuality, she argued.

“We live with the continuing tension between holier impulses that encourage us to see the image of God in all human beings and the reality that some of us choose not to see that glimpse of the divine, and instead use other people as means to an end.  We’re seeing something similar right now in the changing attitudes and laws about same-sex relationships, as many people come to recognize that different is not the same thing as wrong.  For many people, it can be difficult to see God at work in the world around us, particularly if God is doing something unexpected.”

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In support her argument for radical inclusion and diversity over doctrine Bishop Jefferts Schori adds that the day’s reading “from Revelation pushes us in the same direction, outward and away from our own self-righteousness, inviting us to look harder for God’s gift and presence all around us.  Jesus says he’s looking for everybody, anyone who’s looking for good news, anybody who is thirsty.  There are no obstacles or barriers – just come.  God is at work everywhere, even if we can’t or won’t see it immediately.”

She concluded her sermon by stating that we are not justified by our faith but by our respect for diversity.

“Looking for the reflection of God’s glory all around us means changing our lenses, or letting the scales on our eyes fall away.  That kind of change isn’t easy for anyone, but it’s the only road to the kingdom of God.”