{"id":40462,"date":"2017-04-07T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=40462"},"modified":"2017-04-06T23:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T02:34:53","slug":"justice-alito-cultures-hostility-toward-moral-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/07\/justice-alito-cultures-hostility-toward-moral-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Alito: Culture&#8217;s Hostility Toward Moral Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-justice-alito-religious-liberty-20170315-story.html\">recently spoke<\/a> at a Catholic legal group sponsored by Advocati Christi, noting the hostility of some Americans to religious liberty and the need to &#8220;evangelize&#8230;religious freedom&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alito used his own words from his dissent in the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark same-sex marriage case, telling the gathering he had predicted opposition to the decision would be used to &#8220;vilify those who disagree, and treat them as bigots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are seeing this is coming to pass,&#8221; he said, then mentioned Bob Dylan&#8217;s famous song lyric, &#8220;You don&#8217;t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A wind is picking up that is hostile to those with traditional moral beliefs,&#8221; Alito said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incidentally, Justice Alito is a former US Army Captain.<\/p>\n<p>The culture has <em>long<\/em> been in <!--more-->conflict with Christianity\u00a0&#8212; but note he (accurately) said the wind is <em>picking up<\/em>. That is, the tide is growing.<\/p>\n<p>What was\u00a0known as a\u00a0moral social standard is now hate.<\/p>\n<p>What was once &#8220;prudish&#8221; is now called\u00a0bigoted.<\/p>\n<p>What was once called good has become evil.<\/p>\n<p>And what was once was evil has become good.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, despite this cultural shift,\u00a0members of the US military remain free to exercise their faith, whatever their tenets\u00a0might be, and whatever others may think of that faith.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/isaiah\/5.htm\">Isaiah 5:20<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recently spoke at a Catholic legal group sponsored by Advocati Christi, noting the hostility of some Americans to religious liberty and the need to &#8220;evangelize&#8230;religious freedom&#8221;: Alito used his own words from his dissent in the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark same-sex marriage case, telling the gathering he had predicted opposition to the decision would be used [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[88,54,96,442,2,17,10,171,6202,457],"class_list":["post-40462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-army","tag-catholic","tag-christian","tag-homosexual","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-samuel-alito","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}