Rep. J. Randy Forbes Continues to Drink Kool-Aid

Randy Forbes - a pandering political whore

As I have noted before, I went to law school wit now Congressman J. Randy Forbes.  In school, Forbes was not a liberal, but he wasn't a right wing nutcase either.  Now, Forbes has either been subjected to a "Stepford Wife" like transformation or is drinking far right Kool-Aid by the truckload.  How else to explain his co-authoring of an op-ed in the Washington Examiner advocating for a license to engage in religious based discrimination.  The principal target, naturally is LGBT citizens, but Forbes batshitery could equally apply to Jews, blacks and others disliked by the "godly folk."  Here are samples of Forbes' vile pandering to hate merchants.  Natuarlly, if and when Christians become a minority, I suspect that Forbes will be singing a different song.  Here are highlights of his batshitery:

Avid Chipotle customers seeking carnitas burritos for dinner may be disappointed over the coming weeks. The restaurant giant is reportedly no longer serving pork at about a third of its locations after it dropped a pork supplier that failed to live up to the corporation's standards of humane animal care.


It is crucial that the same freedom of conscience enjoyed by the leadership of Chipotle remain equally available to business owners of faith. Indeed, much more so, as freedom of religion is explicitly protected by the First Amendment. We cannot simultaneously laud the leaders of a business motivated by a commitment to environmental sustainability and discriminate against the leaders of a business motivated by religious belief.

If a decision based on moral convictions is celebrated, shouldn't a decision based on the free exercise of religion – a right guaranteed in the Constitution – be even more so?

To be sure, religious freedom is not just a choice of convenience – it is a fundamental right given to all Americans by the Constitution. As we recognize Chipotle's decision, let's remember that a clear constitutionally-supported civil right of religious freedom should be cherished and respected in every corner of this nation.

Americans do not check their religious freedom at the door when they leave their home or place of worship and enter the public sphere.  We must not fall prey to the hypocrisy of defending the freedom of operating a business on convictions of sustainability, but reject that same freedom when the convictions are based in faith.

No doubt Mr. Forbes sees himself as virtuous even as he promotes hate and division and the embrace of ignorance and bigotry.  The truth, however, is that (i) religious belief is 100% a matter of choice and (ii) the most tawdry whore has more integrity and virtue and Forbes and his fellow Republicans who shamelessly prostitute them to the ugliest elements of the party base - the Christofascists and the white supremacists.