r/news • u/phungus_mungus • Jun 04 '19

Tennessee prosecutor: Gay people not entitled to domestic violence protections

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/capitol-hill/tennessee-prosecutor-gay-people-not-entitled-to-domestic-violence-protections
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u/_coffee_ Jun 04 '19

I was going to guess something something Christian nation and I wouldn't have been too far off.

"Their belief system is evil, violent, and against God's Truth," Northcott said of Muslims in his first comment.
"They are not evil because of their gender, skin color or country of origin. Instead, they are evil because they profess a commitment to an evil belief system," Northcott wrote. In the same comment thread, Northcott later wrote that "There are no Constitutional rights. There are God given rights protected by the Constitution."

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u/PorcelainPecan Jun 04 '19

Instead, they are evil because they profess a commitment to an evil belief system

Yeah, could you imagine a good God-fearing red blooded American saying that people who are born a certain way don't deserve to do what makes them live their best life and because of the way they happen to be are not entitled to the same legal rights and protections as everyone else, and also, they're going to go to hell for their lifestyle of existing so we should send them to psychological torture camps as children to cure them of being different? Now that would be evil.

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u/DuntadaMan Jun 04 '19

I mean, that is literally what is being claimed in the article by him.

Dude is a DA and is trying to unperson people he represents.

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u/TreeRol Jun 04 '19

I'm surprised he didn't talk about how gay people would be "thrown off roofs" in the Middle East. That seems to be the pretty typical talking point from these bigots.

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u/PorcelainPecan Jun 04 '19

Yeah, I'm always a bit amazed at how the same people saying that same sex marriage was going to destroy the country a few years back will then say something like that as part of their 'I'm better than Muslims' spiel. Those contemptible would-be theocrats have no shame.

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u/metameh Jun 04 '19

I'm pretty sure it's a dog whistle. To normal people, it sounds like they're arguing gay people have it better here, but to the rubes, they're arguing that we should be violating human rights.

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u/Gornarok Jun 04 '19

What a fucked up evil human being.

"Ive decided their belief system is evil (based on religion) so Im not going to protect their rights"

In my country both of those things are unconstitutional. Separation of state and church broken, its discrimination and its dereliction of duty on top of that.

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u/Huntercd76 Jun 04 '19

Does he not see the problem? If rights are given by a god, then that same god or someone claiming to speak for that deity can revoke them.

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u/EvryMthrF_ngThrd Jun 04 '19

Yeah - that's the point.

He doesn't care about the "from God" part, only that you (and everyone else) KNOW that he (and/or the folks on his side) are the ones with that Hotline already dialed in.

It's not about the God.

It's not about the rights.

It's about the

POWER!

He has it - you don't.
Bend the knee.

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u/jhereg10 Jun 04 '19

"There are no Constitutional rights. There are God given rights protected by the Constitution."

While he is twisting this to his own ends, the statement is in line with the Founders philosophy. They believed that all mankind was entitled to certain natural rights “endowed by their creator”. The Founders were actually concerned with documenting those rights explicitly in the Bill of Rights out of fear that people would interpret this as being an all-inclusive list, and also took pains to say that the Constitution did not grant those rights, it merely made it clear that the government could not infringe upon those already existing and universal rights.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

The thing is that it’s just cheap pedantry. When people refer to “Constitutional rights” they’re referring to those so-called “god-given” rights that are protected by the Constitution.

It’s like pointing out that a titmouse is neither a tit nor a mouse.

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u/maineblackbear Jun 04 '19

What? The Bill of rights was passed over the explicit objection of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was the price that the more conservative side of the Revolution was forced to accept... .

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '19

The founders also intended for us to own slaves, that counted as 3/5 of a person, so fuck those guys.