To be progressive in this country is to provide liberty and justice to those who agree with you.

Just ask Jack Phillips, a Christian, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, Lakewood, Colorado, if the justice system works for him. An appeals court has said he must bake a wedding cake for a gay couple against his moral objections, or lose his business.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, in Kentucky, found herself in a legal dilemma by refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple, then to everyone. A court has ordered her to issue marriage licenses to all qualified couples.

Should courts force those with strong religious reasons to participate in gay marriage? Where does justice begin and injustice start with progressive courts?

What about affirmative action? Whites with better test scores and aptitudes have lost jobs and colleges to black applicants in the name of past sins. This is supposed to make things fairer.

Can this really be acceptable in a color-blind society? How can it be justice if the people being hurt today weren’t even alive during racial unrest?

Progressives and our courts say it’s only justice that someone can come into the country and qualify for social welfare once they get across the border. Is there any justice for the taxpayer? Where is the justice for American families hurt and maimed by illegal immigration? Can there be justice without liberty?

Should a newspaper fear the heavy hand of the courts coming down upon its business interests if it doesn’t toe the progressive line? Should a free press have the liberty to print any opinion it wants? What would happen for example if this newspaper decided to go on full-fledged attack against gay marriage? Would the courts shut it down? Then what is liberty?

John Hopkins

Manchester

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