The Patriot Post® · Starbucks: 'Business Imperative' to Support Gay Marriage

VisionToAmerica.com reports: Many of the country’s most prominent businesses filed a brief last week in favor of same-sex marriage, arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage via popular vote, is unconstitutional and is detrimental to businesses in the state.“

The case being argued is Hollingsworth v. Perry, and the companies that signed the brief include: Apple, Alcoa, Facebook, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, McGraw-Hill, Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks, Twitter, Viacom, and the Walt Disney Company. They argued that "recognizing the rights of same-sex couples to marry is more than a constitutional issue” and is a “business imperative.” “By singling out a group for less favorable treatment, Proposition 8 impedes businesses from achieving the market’s ideal of efficient operations – particularly in recruiting, hiring, and retaining talented people who are in the best position to operate at their highest capacity,” the companies argued.

Starbucks and many top businesses signed a pledge to the Supreme Court in favor of gay marriage; and surprise surprise surprise: They admit it’s all about the money – “recognizing the rights of same-sex couples to marry is a "business imperative.” The Bible makes its own pledge: “What do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?” Not exactly a biblical O'Reilly Factor allegory.

Don’t count on the Bill O'Reilly ego and arrogant conceit and his Bible allegory tales to bail out the same-sex “mirage” fantasy, since he is now fighting Bible truth that he is going to set “straight.” O'Reilly has his own problems to contend with which is, “Pride precedes the fall.”

O'Reilly along with his co-author did not even get the Lincoln story right. O'Reilly puffs himself when he proudly asserts, “I am a simple man,” when at times he is simple-minded as he ignored the Obama unconstitutional antics in the interest of “fairness.” Right is right and wrong is wrong, and when O'Reilly ignored the obvious Obama travesties, it was really his effort to con Obama into coming onto his show for a prestigious O'Reilly interview.

As to Lincoln, O'Reilly got it wrong because Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation until the third year of the Civil War, and then freed only slaves in the rebelling South that he had no power to enforce. Lincoln did not free slaves in the North where he had the power to enforce. Think about it: O'Reilly, like many talking heads is an opportunist that like an old long-gone aunt was wont to say, “He says more than his prayers.”

Talk about having your cake and eating it too. 640,000 casualties in the Civil War that had maybe 10% of today’s American population, and Americans today are apoplectic about ONLY 6,400 casualties in the Bush II wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For those reasons I put Lincoln at the bottom of presidential rankings.

Putting that into another perspective, according to police analysis published by WND.com, there were 4,797 murders in Chicago since 2003 to date, exceeding the 2,166 American force deaths in Afghanistan since the 2001 inception of that war, despite the fact that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the nation. Who would have thought that the Afghanistan war zone was safer than Chicago badlands? Chicago is proof-positive of the maxim that “When guns are criminalized, only criminals will have guns.”

England and other European countries ended slavery without civil wars. Now O'Reilly wants to rewrite the Bible and give his distorted take on killing Jesus? As to timelines, the Bible states that to God a day is LIKE a thousand years, and a thousand years are LIKE a day, and also states that God’s ways and thoughts are not like man’s words and thoughts – and how could they be?

As to the validity of the common O'Reilly snarky type arguments that brilliantly “demolish” the six day creation bible story, an argument buttressed by scientists who with the help of carbon dating etc, set the age of the universe at about 14.2 billion years. This marks a universe day of the six day creation at about 2.4 billion years, perhaps scientifically correct, making it a simple matter for the Intelligentsia to destroy their fallacious straw man, but that is God, not them, who is Laughing Out Loud.

Regardless, supposing that calculating the time for one revolution of the universe to be a universe day, that would in fact be a day in God’s eye, not necessarily the assumed 24-hour earth day. But who is to really know but the master creator himself who is not about to subject himself to a demeaning O'Reilly interview which will actually take place, but the other way around? OUCH!