Soap Box

Several years ago, the CDB was performing with a symphony orchestra and a few minutes before the show was to start, one of the symphony officials came back stage and told me that there was a gentleman sitting in the audience who was offended by the confederate flag that was painted on the front of Taz�s - our keyboard player - piano.

I responded that there was not a confederate flag on the piano, that there was an American flag and a Tennessee flag, but no confederate flag.

I knew what had happened, the Tennessee flag is red and blue with three stars in the middle and does not resemble the confederate battle flag except in color, but for some self-righteous busybody who is looking for something they disagree with, so bent on dissention that he couldn't be bothered to walk a few steps closer and take a better look, it could have been anything his prejudiced little mind wanted it to be.

The point I'm making is that some people see what they want to see, even if the truth is in the opposite direction and are so bent on pressing their point, that good sense and truth don't matter to them.

The college students who claim to be for unfettered free speech and yet shout down speakers who have dissenting opinions are violating the very essence of the first amendment, the right to express your opinion, no matter how diverse and whether anybody else agrees or not.

If you told them they were being fascists, they would be seriously insulted.

Black Lives Matter advocates, marching down the streets of a city chanting that they want "dead cops now", have no idea what a truly mass murder of law officers in this nation would bring on.
It would in all likelihood bring on anarchy and martial law.

Yet, if you told them they were anarchists, they would be seriously insulted.

The people who claim to be offended at a cross or any other symbol of Christian religion would have been offended from the very founding of this nation, because one of the first things early settlers did upon making landfall was to erect a cross on a beach in Virginia.

Yet, if you told them they were intolerant, they would be seriously insulted.

In reality, it's not the cross that motivates such people, it's the presence of people who think differently from them, and there has been a movement in the last few years, that if you can't shut them up in society, to take it to the court where a growing number of liberal justices are likely to agree with them, Constitution be damned.

This is, and has been all along about power, the grasping and centralizing of power. They want it and figure they have to silence the opposition to get it.

For instance, if the argument about public displays of faith were about offending the agnostics and atheists among us, why do the government and the teacher's unions get livid every time somebody brings up school vouchers?

That way, Christians could send their children to Christian schools, Muslims to Muslim schools and so on, and atheists wouldn�t have to worry about being subjected to �offensive� prayer in schools.

But that would break up a monopoly and a huge voting block, therefore reducing the power of the unions and the government to control curriculum and keep the status quo in government.

I literally don't understand the situation with the bathrooms in North Carolina. Seems simple to me, if you're a man - biologically or by surgical alteration - you go to the Men�s room.

The same thing goes for a woman.

What's discriminating about that?

How long would it take for some enterprising straight young men to start claiming �transgender� and walk into a bathroom full of young ladies?

Would you want your wife or granddaughter to be exposed to that?

I wouldn't.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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