Tea at Trianon: A Family Persecuted for Their Faith

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, June 3, 2017

A Family Persecuted for Their Faith

A Catholic family is persecuted not only for upholding the most basic morality, but also for deciding what goes on at their own farm. From Faithzette:

Tennes told the individual they did not permit same-sex marriages on the farm because of the family’s Catholic belief that marriage is a sacramental union between one man and one woman. City officials later discovered the Facebook posting and began immediate action to remove Country Mill from the farmer’s market, alleging the family had violated the city’s discrimination ordinance. It did not seem to matter to city leaders that the farm is located 22 miles outside the city limits — and had absolutely nothing to do with the business of selling blueberries at the market.

“We were surprised and we were shocked,” Steve Tennes told me. “My wife and I both volunteered to serve in the military — to protect freedom. Now we come home and the freedom that we worked to protect — we have to defend in our own backyard.”

I reached out to city leaders but they did not return my calls seeking comment. “Whether you are a Jew, Muslim or Christian — people of faith should not be eradicated from the marketplace simply because they don’t share the same thoughts and ideas that the government is choosing to promote,” Steve told me. So they have decided to fight for their constitutional rights. (Read more.)

julygirl said...: It is no wonder that followers of Islam look at the USA with disdain and think of the USA as Satanic. What happened to freedom of religion.; June 4, 2017 at 8:17:00 AM EDT