Christina Stauffer on
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Thank you, Gary.
Nice to read something intelligent on this subject. By the way....exactly when
did we start equating religious freedom to the right to discriminate against
others who don't share the same beliefs? So....does that mean Christian clerks
can refuse marriage licenses to Muslims? How about to an interracial
couple....I mean there's lots of stuff in the Old Testament about
"mixing" being a no no. Then maybe Protestant clerks can start
refusing licenses to Catholics or to folks from that strange church across
town. How far is Mr. Jindal going to carry this stupidity?
You defined the problem exactly. Countries, which are
slowly taken over by religion (any religion) soon discover that if given an
inch, religion will take a mile. A secular nation cannot let religion get as
much as a toehold on a secular society.
Letting people decide which civil liberties they will
grant based solely on their religious beliefs opens Pandora’s box and leads to
chaos. Discrimination must be stopped on a secular level. Personal religious
beliefs should never dictate public policy.
Once civil liberties are decided by religious views,
religious war break out and the surviving religion imposes its religious
beliefs on all the rest of society. Losing religions soon find their religious
beliefs banned and discriminated against.
Claims of religious freedom, for discrimination purposes,
cannot be tolerated in a free society. The consequences are always bad. Civil
liberties are always sacrificed. Religious dictatorships always form. History has
many examples of this destructive cycle on people and nations. We must not
allow religions to make public policy.
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