Progressive blackmail ……. Oh sorry, I meant extortion.

Progressives are learning all about blackmail --Oh sorry I should say extortion it is more PC.

The following three paragraphs are from an article by Jeff Dunetz appearing on MRCTV.org……

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser this spring that the National Park Service, which owns the land beneath Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, was unlikely to accommodate construction of a new stadium for the Redskins unless the team changes its name.

"Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the 'Blackskins' or the 'Brownskins' or the 'Whiteskins.' So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different," Jewell, who heads the department that includes the Bureau of Indian Affairs, told ABC News' David Kerley when asked whether the name should be changed.

"But in talking with tribal leaders, this has not been the issue that they have talked about with me, and I think that there is debate, even among the Native American community, on the Washington Redskins, and certainly there are a lot of people who have pride in that team," Jewell added. "So, my personal views are not necessarily reflected in the tribes that I talk to. It isn't high on their agenda."

This is clearly an attempt by an Obama Administration Cabinet officer to inflict a social agenda that not even the alleged “offended” parties care about. In fact, the article highlighted the Red Mesa, Arizona high school “Redskins” team. The team is very proud of their Indian heritage and their team name. Tribal leaders, by Secretary Jewell’s own admission are not all that interested in the Washington Redskins professional football team or it’s’ name. Secretary Jewell is openly stating that she is acting on her own personal opinion and threatening to penalize the football team unless they cave into her personal demand to change their name.

It is the progressive ‘my way or the highway’ routine. Agree with me or you are a racist, a bigot, or worse. Sorry Madam Secretary but even the Indians don’t agree with you. Agendas matter more to progressives than facts do.

Histrionic revisionism is another avenue that progressives like to travel down. Take the Confederate flag controversy. The flag has been around for over 200 years, was the symbol of divisive time in our country where two opposed armies of United States citizens conducted war against each other. Owning of slaves was not the primary reason for war. Northerners owned slaves during the war. President Lincoln first proposed the idea of the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet in the summer of 1862 as a war measure to cripple the Confederacy and primarily a tactic to shorten the war. The end result, of course, was a major positive for the country at wars end. So casting the ‘rebel’ flag as representing something short of the KKK is not founded in fact. It is very convenient for radicals and progressives to distort history to their advantage, in this case attempting to remove an artifact of the war for the rebirth of our nation. You cannot have a United States history without the Confederacy or the Rebel flay, no matter how much you wish for it. Yet, the progressives have mobilized their constituents and scared corporate America. Stalwart companies such as WalMart, Target and NASCAR to name a few jumped on the effort to eradicate the flag pressured by the far left. Recall that the hubbub began with the crazy gunman who killed 9 innocent church going folks in Charlotte being shown in a self taken photo with guns and the Confederate flag. Making a connection between the sick mindset of one individual and our southern citizens, many of whom are ancestors of the people who fought under that flag, is just a bigoted as any other blanket judgment on any other segment of our society.

Distortion, pressure, revisions, name calling and attacking the opposition are the weapons of the progressive liberals. Unfortunately they have a full head of steam and momentum fully encouraged by Mr. Obama their chief cheerleader.

The progressive cult has waged war on marriage for years now and scored a success of sorts in the same sex arena.

Miriam Webster dictionary has already changed their definition of marriage to:

any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognizedlegally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example,

opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and

arranged marriage:

For millennium the definition of marriage was “a union between one man and one woman”. Changing the definition does not make something so. It merely obscures history, tradition and in this case natural law. Bathing the White House in rainbow colors still does not change the wrong headedness at the core, nor does a contorted and fabricated SCOTUS decision change it. A union between two same sex persons cannot transcend to a marriage in a real sense. Call it what you will but marriage it is not. When such an arrangement can produce children as a product of the two individuals’ intercourse then and only then will it qualify as a marriage. The progressive push was not to gain legal recognition and certain rights for same sex couples that many already had, it was aimed directly at co-opting the word marriage.

The extortion will continue when religious rights become endangered for opposing the new ‘marriages’. Protests, activists and court cases will be reigned down on the religious who do not cave into the coming demands. With recognition the progressives will seek to maximize the effect by attempting to bring churches and synagogues to their knees. It is there where their rhetoric and social standing will be challenged and with Gods’ grace defeated – threats, extortion, blackmail not withstanding.

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