The 'Second Line Blue Post'
This pushes A LOT of questions out front and center
NOTE: It’s 19 October and Second Line has removed their ‘Blue Post’ from the brewery’s Facebook page, 6 days after posting.
So many questions erupt from this Second Line Brewer incident that for now I’ll just sketch out some thoughts about it.
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Now, various matters about this incident:
The ‘Second Line Blue Post’ exposes contradictions in a way so immediate, so true, so “Leftist” that the statement should be memorialized for being both totally crazy and spot-on true. This is what the Left believes; this makes sense to them:
The pro-Life movement should make an example out of Second Line, use the Blue Post to show everybody the ridiculous lengths Leftists will go to exclude others.
The contradictions within this post should be hugely amplified, not smothered, as the Archdiocese wishes.
A quick thought about “Diversity”
Your restaurant and bar instantly jump up the “Diversity” charts when 3 nuns in habit drop in for beers with lots of their friends
Is there a civil rights violation?
Either the Blue Post admits that customers are denied service explicitly because of their religion, or, a condition of speech is placed on the customers, should the event be hosted by the venue. “Abortion” discussions are forbidden as a condition of service.
Both of these seem problematic but I’m no lawyer.
Freedom of association may be at risk too.
Granted, a private business can deny service, Second Line has the freedom to be decent; they can choose to be appropriate. They chose pejoratively by promising to “vet” customers.
Second Line may be in violation of civil law. Perhaps not, but…
Second Line presumed speech from a customer set and banned that speech - and the customer set - in a swift preemptive move.
It may very well be true that a repugnant thing is not a civil rights violation, but: the Blue Post.
The Archdiocese is not only remarkably quiet on this offense, but they have pressured The BEC to drop the matter.
“Forward” is their theme. But somewhere in the mix is a need to guard “the family” associated with brewery ownership. Again… questions. Why did Catholic Charities call me and request that I back off?
A robust defense articulated by the Archbishop is simply missing.
Not to be found in media or Facebook: A public demand from the Archbishop to the owners - writers of the Blue Post? - for an explanation, a rationalization, a defense of their decision. Is it now their policy to deny service to Catholic nuns and their friends? You have “promised” to “better vet” your future bookings. (See: Civil Rights violation?)
Now 5 days and counting, I’m not finding a statement from the Archbishop about this incident. Where is his defense of both the faith and the faithful?
What does this say about the condition of Catholicity in New Orleans?
What is the trajectory of a secularized city? Has New Orleans tipped into being un-Catholic? Or anti-Catholic?
What does it say that the Archbishop is silent while the bigot is publicly “deeply sorry” about almost accidentally hosting 3 nuns, apologizing to the Leftists, not to the nuns and their friends.
Not that long ago, a move like this would have doomed a restaurant or bar in this very Catholic city. They’d dry up in days. Everyone would be appalled at the decision to deny service to Catholic nuns.
Now, the Church institution is barely animated on a major incident involving freedom of religion, freedom of association, and freedom of speech. The Blue Post is a written assurance to discriminate; this is a problem.
This incident should be fully exploited to the pro-Life advantage.
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