Chuck Colson has a New Chew Toy

Chuck Colson is the former Nixon hatchet man turned fundamentalist Christian. Colson did some prison time for obstruction of justice. According to the PR, during his time in prison, Colson had become increasingly aware of what he saw as injustices done to prisoners and shortcomings in their rehabilitation. Given that Colson did all of seven months at the Maxwell AFB Club Fed with its tennis courts and college style dorms, about the worst injustice that he experienced was an overcooked steak. During the Nixon presidency, Colson was a hardcore right wing Republican operative. Today, Colson is a hardcore right wing Republican operative with a Christian patina.

Colson has now embraced (via the Christian Post) the cause of Peter Vadala. Vadala is the nitwit who got fired by Brookstone for calling a superior's same-sex pending marriage "deviant." Vadala wasn't fired for "his Christian beliefs." He got canned for a breach of company policy — one that he admits he was fully aware of. Ever the victim, Vadala now claims that the superior goaded him into his conduct. Exactly how this operated to implore Vadala to express similar sentiments to a co-worker and then to a human resources executive remains unexplained. Could it be Satan?

Colson's real objective is to weave this into another reason to support the repressive Manhattan Declaration. Nowhere does Colson appreciate the limits to workplace speech nor the differences between managers and subordinates. Well, Chuck has an agenda:

So pummeling a junior-level Christian employee with endless comments he finds offensive is OK. But making a single critical comment to a lesbian senior-level employee is a firing offense.

Even more disturbing is the reason Brookstone gave to back up its decision. In Massachusetts, same-sex “marriage” is legal. So a lesbian employee can prattle on about her wedding plans without harassing anyone.

The implications of this are frightening. If same-sex “marriage” is foisted upon other states, then expressing disagreement with it-or even criticizing the homosexual lifestyle-could become a firing offense for everyone. If employers had taken this attitude 90 years ago, people could have lost their jobs for disagreeing with laws forbidding women from voting!

This is how far the gay agenda has come in this country. Any disagreement is portrayed as hatred and harassment. And the victim-as in this case-is often a Christian.

Peter Vidala’s firing will have one beneficial effect, at least. It will help the rest of us understand why same-sex “marriage” laws are like no other. Oppose them beforehand or speak out afterward, and you will be punished.

This is why the declaration that 150 Christian leaders issued Friday is so important. It directly confronts the question of religious liberty, so threatened in today’s post-Christian culture. You’ll be able to find the document itself at ColsonCenter.org on Friday, or you can go to ManhattanDeclaration.org and sign it. We’re looking for thousands of Christians who will have the courage to stand with us and sign on.