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The European Tour is considering hosting the 2019 Scottish Open at President Donald Trumps golf course, according to reports, a decision that is expected to be met with resistance.

According to The Guardian, Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, is the favored venue for Aberdeen Asset Management,sponsorof the 2019 Scottish Open.

On Thursday, the tour revealed that Gullane Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland,would host next years tournament. An announcement for the following year is not expected anytime soon, but the report says Trumps course is the favorite to host.

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Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland, on June 25. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

Trump International Golf Linksopened in 2012, with European Tour officials said to have made several visits to the site to consider the viability of holding the event there.

A spokesperson for the European Tour told The Guardian: No decision on future venues of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open has been taken beyond 2018. Our focus is on delivering a successful championship, with its strongest field to date, at Dundonald Links next month, followed by our return to Gullane next year.

The Donald Trump Organization is currently being run by his sons Donald and Eric, but Trump has indicated how keen he is to see the Tour travel to his course.

In 2015, he said, The Scottish Open is coming. The Scottish Open wants to be here forever, they think this is the best course theyve ever seen.

Next months U.S. Womens Open isbeing held atthe Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, and there have been protests against the venue.

Trump is a longtime golf fan and competitor, and his time in officehas notquelled his interest. On Saturday, The Independent reported that Trump spent the30th day of his presidency visiting one of his golf courses.

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While the rally was originally conceived to include Alt-Right personalities like Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, anti-Semitic harassment against Rebel Medias Laura Loomer and other online feuding led to the staging of a rival event Rally Against Political Violence outside the White House.

At the Lincoln Memorial, however, around 100 people gathered to hear a slate of speakers that included Augustus Sol Invictus, the self-described leader of the so-called Alt-Knights, Jason Kessler, a proud neo-Confederate and contributor to VDARE and the Daily Caller, Nathan Damigo, the founder of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, and assorted other far-right YouTubers and Podcasters.

White Nationalist and Alt-Right figurehead Richard Spencer at the Lincoln Memorial.

Members of white nationalist groups Identity Evropa, Vanguard America, and the Traditionalist Workers Party were in attendance wearing uniforms andcarrying flags. Theycheered along as speakers inveighed against illegals, white genocide and cultural Marxism.

In a call for uniting the right,Invictus used the setting to recall that President Abraham Lincoln pardoned prominent Confederates following the Civil War, though other speakers couldnt resist taking swings at the so-called Alt-Lite and Posobiec and Loomer in particular.

These people on the Alt-Lite, the Jack Posobiecs, they will never criticize Donald Trump. These people are not serious political thinkers. They are not to be listened to. Theyre nothing but shills, said YouTube personality James Allsup, with some of the biggest boos of the day coming after Posobiecs name.

Later, Allsup announced that their rally was twice as big as the one outside the White House and was greeted with cheers ofHail Victory.

But what separated the two rallies besides the overt white identity politics of the likes of Spencer and Damigo was the topic of the Jews.

Kessler, who had a Confederate battle flag held up behind him during his speech and said that the entire country would be better off if the South had won the Civil War, was the first to defend anti-Semitism by being, well, anti-Semitic:

[The Laura Loomers and Jack Posobiecs of the world] say they wont do the rally because somebody is anti-Semitic? So theres a group you cant criticize? Im not going to go overboard on anybodybut I will just say this: they are a powerful group! They have AIPAC, the Israel lobby. Theyre two percent of the population and they pretty much run Hollywood and brag about it. And they are the ones putting out this filthy propaganda. CNN. All you guys out here tell me who is in charge of the global conglomerates that own you, that own CBS and NBC?

Baked Alaska, who was suspended by Twitter for a week in part for circulating a meme depicting a cartoon of President Trump in a Nazi uniform and Loomer in a gas chamber, also spoke. I thought it was funny, personally. Mike Enoch thought it was funny, he said, referencing another speaker who runs the anti-Semitic podcast The Right Stuff.

I have to really follow the truth in my heart and what I believe, Alaska said. And Ive seen an awakening, lately. Have you guys seen it? Generation Zyklon? I mean Generation Z?

Flags for the Tradtionalist Workers Party, Identity Evropa, Vanguard America raised high alongside the Confederate battle flag outside the Lincoln Memorial.

Enoch, whose real name is Mike Peinovich, would later speak and also railed against Jews.

So, freedom, the constitution and liberty, its all good stuff but lets be honest whats really facing our country today is the systematic elimination of white people. The genocide of the white race, Peinovich said to cheers.

In a rant that began with a discussion about an article in the Jewish magazine Forward, Peinovich said:

When you talk about Jewish privilege, which is objectively provable, we can prove it. Whos in control of the Federal Reserve Bank? Whos in control of the media? Whos in control of our foreign policy? Jews. We know that its Jews. Why do we have a war in the Middle East against our countrys interest? Against the interest of our race? Because of Jewish control. Ok. Lets not fucking beat around the bush. Im using my freedom of speech rights here.

Christopher Cantwell of the website Radical Agenda also attacked Jewish influence and referenced Loomers disruption of Shakespeares Julius Caesar in Central Park:

If the answer is not now then we might as well throw in the towel and forfeit to the Communists today. We are losing massive ground each moment. Nonwhite immigration and breeding alone are rapidly diminishing what electoral majorities we have remaining. Jewish influence disarms us in the onslaught of identity politics. Our universities teach no more than the propaganda of our enemies to our children and we are compelled to subsidize it all with our own earnings under penalty of imprisonment or death for refusal. Disrupting a play is the most civil thing we should do to these vermin.

Damigo, whose Identity Evropa members wearing white polo shirts and khakis made up a significant portion of the crowd, also spoke:

I think it would be an injustice to come to a Free speech rally and simply talk about Free Speech. So Im going to say some radical shit. Say some radical things here. America was founded by white people. It was founded for white people. America was not founded to be a multiracial, multicultural society. The founders were well aware of the importance that identity played in the make-up of a nation. And how fundamental it was to the future progress and success of that people.

The reason why our nation is where it is today, is because of anti-dialogical forces. Individuals who were haters of truth. And what they did, they used tactics, they used tactics weve seen over the last year to shut us down, this is nothing new. This has been going on decade after decade after decade.The cultural Marxism that permeates every orifice of our society today is a result of this tyranny.

A Spencer supporter at the Lincoln Memorial rally.

Damigo left the stage after chanting Moldylocks! Moldylocks! with the crowd referencing the woman who he sucker-punched in Berkeley, California back in April.

On the other side of town, at the White House, the Rally Against Political Violence organized by Cernovich and Posobiec attracted about 50. The event was relatively tame though an African American man wearing an Info Wars t-shirt railed against CNN before shouting, Its time to put George Soros in a gas chamber!

Half a dozen or so speakers took turns addressing the crowd from a small makeshift stage, where the overarching theme was blaming the left and Antifa for the political violence taking place in America.

Lucian Wintrich, the White House correspondent for the Gateway Pundit read out a list of hate incidents that had either turned out to be fake or the perpetrators were left leaning.

Corey Stewart, Confederate flag supporting politician who recently ran and lost in a Virginia gubernatorial race told the crowd to get behind president Trump and also support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Stewart Rhodes, head of the anti-government group Oath Keepers was also in attendance with some of his crew providing security for the event.

Rhodes also took the stage and decried Antifa, stating, They now realize that if they order the cops to stand down and if those cops actually do stand down its going to be worse for Antifa. Antifa will get their asses handed to them by the American patriots.

Spencer, Kessler, and others plan to rally again in Charlottesville, Va., on August 12. The theme of that rally? Unite the right.

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June 26, 2017 By Ferrell Foster / Christian Life Commission

Alt-right racism is both like and unlike the old racism. Like: It sees the white race as superior and in need of protection. Unlike: It is generally educated, secular and young.

Ferrell Foster

The Southern Baptist Convention brought the alt-right to center stage in mid-June, when it initially failed to consider a resolution condemning racist aspects of the alt-right.Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed, and SBC messengers approved a revised resolution, which decried every form of racism, including alt-right white supremacy, as antithetical to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Messengers also said, We denounce and repudiate white supremacy and every form of racial and ethnic hatred as of the devil.

Alt-right is a loosely defined term. It dates back to 2008 in one form but has been reappropriated more recently.

Last year, a University of Alabama political scientist, George Hawley, told The Washington Post the alt-right is predominantly an online phenomenon, and amorphous and somewhat diverse in terms of what the people who associate with the movement want, but really the core of the alt-right is white nationalismor, at least, white identity politics.

AltRight.com is led by Richard Spencer, probably the most visible white supremacist in the United States today.

In their own words

A Primer Text on the site says: The United States is being overrun by hordes of non-white immigrants, legal and illegal, fundamentally altering its demographic landscape in key cities and driving a stake through the heart of its culture. The whole of Northern and Western Europe is similarly being flooded with Muslim immigrants who are gaining more influence as their numbers grow and the elected leaders refuse to do anything about it. The Great Replacement is well underway.

The primer cites the scientific theory of evolution and natural selection to defend its position regarding racial differences. It also affirms the importance of white identity and says genocide of the white race is ongoing: Mass immigration of non-whites into white countries, forced assimilation by traitorous governments, media and entertainment industries that encourage miscegenation, and liberal egalitarian professors that demonize Whiteness and Western Civilization are just a few examples of the program of genocide against all people of European descent. The federal governments refusal to enforce immigration laws, its refusal to curtail illegal immigration, and as forced assimilation is all anti-Whites need in order to eventually exterminate or subsume us as a race since it leaves no homeland for (sic) exclusive to Whites.

Nation under attack

The alt-right is painting a picture of the United States as a white nation under attack from non-whites. It does not recognize that from our earliest days, the United States has been a place where all types of diverse people have come together.

Initially, the insiders were narrowly defined as English-speakers who dissented from the Church of England. But quickly, other English-speakers and Catholics joined the mix. Texas has distinctive German and Czech communities that reflect the non-English-speaking Europeans who crossed the Atlantic, and annexation of Texas brought in a Hispanic population that predated the English-speakers on the land. Asians became another important part of the national fabric. And, of course, a huge population of Africans was forced into slavery in the United States

The United States has been a mixing place for centuries, even though white males held power. And the alt-right is pushing for a return of white male dominance. Their propaganda is not just against non-whites; it is against womenand what they consider to be weak or emasculated men.

Loosely related

That said, I must come back to stress the alt-right is not some easily defined and identified movement. It is a label for loosely related people.

It is sometimes even hard to know if some of these people are being serious. Hawley, the Alabama professor, says: The alt-right has been able to successfully brand itself as an edgy and fun and ironic movement that takes pleasure in needling both liberals and conservatives, and its tongue-in-cheek and rebellious as opposed to just being motivated by (the) genocidal hatred that you would see from people like William Pierce.

But he adds: A lot of the people who are sharing alt-right material online are just trolling and find it funny, but the people who are really dedicated content creators, the people who are spending massive amounts of time on this, this is more than just trollingor if it is trolling, its trolling for a purpose. Its not just because they find it funny.

a no-brainer

That is a quick summary about the alt-right. Because of the alt-rights white nationalism and white supremacy, you can understand why Texas Pastor Dwight McKissic proposed the SBC adopt a resolution against the ideology.

I thought it would be a no-brainer, I thought it would be a slam-dunk, McKissic told Roland Martin on One News Now, after the SBC initially refused to consider his resolution. I thought they had turned a corner, at least in the sense of being able to intellectually, theoretically, biblically, affirm what the Bible says, that one God created all men equally.

The SBC did get it right the next day with the revised resolution, but the approved resolution left out two aspects of McKissics proposalthe so-called curse of Ham and the political aspect of alt-right ideology.

The Texas pastors proposal said: Whereas, the roots of White Supremacy within a Christian context is based on the so-called curse of Ham theory once prominently taught by the SBC in the early yearsechoing the belief that God through Noah ordained descendants of Africa to be subservient to Angloswhich provided the theological justification for slavery and segregation. The SBC officially renounces the curse of Ham theory in this resolution .

After three whereas statements dealing with politics, McKissics proposal included this statement: Resolved, that we reject the retrograde ideologies, xenophobic biases and racial bigotries of the so-called alt-right that seek to subvert our government, destabilize society, and infect our political system.

The approved SBC resolution excluded these two subjects.

Myths vs. facts

The curse of Ham theory still courses through the Christian South. It is part of the reason so many church-goers can still be racist and think little of it. They feel they have biblical justification. They dont. And we must continue to attack this falsehood.

Dallas Pastor Tony Evans does a great job of undermining the curse of Ham myth in his book, Oneness Embraced. Myths, however, do not need facts, they simply need supporters, Evans writes.

I have not found reference to the curse of Ham in alt-right literature, but the idea is there among racists who call themselves Christians. The adopted SBC resolution, by failing to condemn the so-called curse of Ham, leaves room for supporters of this falsehood to continue moving through Southern congregations as the venomous evil spirit of racism they embody.

I will not go into this error much, but any of us can go to that wonderful source of popular wisdom, Wikipedia, and learn the basics. As that entry begins, The Curse of Ham is a misnomer for the curse upon Canaan, Hams son, that was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The curse referred to the people Israel would later conquer in occupying Palestine, the promised land. Canaan did not refer to black people.

The curse of Ham is a double lie. Noah cursed Canaan, not Ham, and Canaan does not refer to people of African descent.

Now, as to politics being left out of the approved resolution. The alt-right is seen as an important part of the electoral support behind Donald Trump.The final resolution steps gingerly around the issue of widespread Southern evangelical support for Trump in the election. This is understandable. Many Southern evangelicals who voted for Trump say they were primarily voting against Hillary Clinton. They do not want to be branded as racists because of their vote.

I hope the SBC resolution will surface the reality of the white supremacy and white nationalism associated with the alt-right. Racism keeps surfacing in various ways because evil doesnt give up easily.

Its important we understand the wolf when it reappears in new sheeps clothing.

(Note: For a straightforward presentation on what the Bible says about race, visit the Christian Life Commission website.)

Ferrell Foster is director of ethics and justice for the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission.

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A Look at the Alt-Right Movement as It Seeks Mainstream Recognition NBCNews.com A Look at the Alt-Right Movement as It Seeks Mainstream Recognition. Sun, Jun 25. The movement believes in protecting white European identity ideas traditionally associated with white supremacy. Its founder, Richard Spencer, credits the election of ...

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The new case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, No. 16-111, started in 2012, when the baker, Jack Phillips, an owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., refused to create a cake for the wedding reception of David Mullins and Charlie Craig, who were planning to marry in Massachusetts. The couple filed discrimination charges, and they won before a civil rights commission and in the courts.

This has always been about more than a cake, Mr. Mullins said. Businesses should not be allowed to violate the law and discriminate against us because of who we are and who we love.

Mr. Phillips, who calls himself a cake artist, argued that two parts of the First Amendment its protections for free expression and religious freedom overrode a Colorado anti-discrimination law and allowed him to refuse to create a custom wedding cake.

David Cortman, one of Mr. Phillipss lawyers, said the case concerned fundamental rights. Every American should be free to choose which art they will create and which art they wont create without fear of being unjustly punished by the government, he said.

In 2015, a Colorado appeals court ruled against Mr. Phillips. Masterpiece does not convey a message supporting same-sex marriages merely by abiding by the law and serving its customers equally, the court said.

In a Supreme Court brief, Mr. Phillipss lawyers said he is happy to create other items for gay and lesbian clients. But his faith requires him, they said, to use his artistic talents to promote only messages that align with his religious beliefs.

Thus, the brief said, he declines lucrative business by not creating goods that contain alcohol or cakes celebrating Halloween and other messages his faith prohibits, such as racism, atheism, and any marriage not between one man and one woman.

The brief said Mr. Mullins and Mr. Craig could have bought a cake from another baker and in fact easily obtained a free wedding cake with a rainbow design from another bakery.

In response, the couples lawyer wrote that it is no answer to say that Mullins and Craig could shop somewhere else for their wedding cake, just as it was no answer in 1966 to say that African-American customers could eat at another restaurant.

In a second development concerning gay and lesbian couples, the Supreme Court reaffirmed on Monday its 2015 decision recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, ruling that states may not treat married same-sex couples differently from others in issuing birth certificates.

The majority decision was unsigned. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., dissented.

The case concerned an Arkansas law about birth certificates that treats married opposite-sex couples differently from same-sex ones. A husband of a married woman is automatically listed as the father even if he is not the genetic parent. Same-sex spouses are not.

The case, Pavan v. Smith, No. 16-992, was brought by two married lesbian couples who had jointly planned their childs conception by means of an anonymous sperm donor. State officials listed the biological mother on the childrens birth certificates and refused to list their partners, saying they were not entitled to a husbands presumption of paternity.

The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against the women, saying that it does not violate equal protection to acknowledge basic biological truths.

Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 United States Supreme Court decision, listed birth certificates among the governmental rights, benefits and responsibilities that typically accompany marriage.

In its unsigned opinion, the majority said on Monday that the Arkansas Supreme Court had erred in failing to apply the 2015 decision to birth certificates. Obergefell proscribes such disparate treatment, the opinion said. As we explained there, a state may not exclude same-sex couples from civil marriage on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples.

Arkansas uses birth certificates, Mondays opinion said, to give married parents a form of legal recognition that is not available to unmarried parents. It continued, Having made that choice, Arkansas may not, consistent with Obergefell, deny married same-sex couples that recognition.

In dissent, Justice Gorsuch said the court had acted rashly in not asking for briefs and argument on the question presented in the case.

To be sure, Obergefell addressed the question whether a state must recognize same-sex marriages, he wrote. But nothing in Obergefell spoke (let alone clearly) to the question addressed by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

The statute in question establishes a set of rules designed to ensure that the biological parents of a child are listed on the childs birth certificate, Justice Gorsuch wrote. Before the state supreme court, the state argued that rational reasons exist for a biology-based birth registration regime, reasons that in no way offend Obergefell like ensuring government officials can identify public health trends and helping individuals determine their biological lineage, citizenship or susceptibility to genetic disorders.

In an opinion that did not in any way seek to defy but rather earnestly engage Obergefell, the state supreme court agreed, Justice Gorsuch wrote. And it is very hard to see what is wrong with this conclusion for, just as the state court recognized, nothing in Obergefell indicates that a birth registration regime based on biology, one no doubt with many analogues across the country and throughout history, offends the Constitution.

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A version of this article appears in print on June 27, 2017, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Cake Case Takes Court Back to the Culture Wars.

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