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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo the smallminded nincompoops who actually believe that chanting "religious liberty" somehow
conceals or excuses their assholery: get a clue. Freedom of religion means you get to choose---or not---whatever unscientific and unprovable set of rules you think best to govern and control YOUR life. It does not mean that you are at "liberty" to impose your ideas of right behavior on anyone else.
So, when you decline to provide medical attention or legal services or an apartment---or a cake---to a gay person or an unwed mother or a mixed race couple, it's not because you are a "good Christian"; it's because you're an asshole.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)Religious freedom? ...
Cool: I must / cannot do it because of my religious beliefs.
..... I decide for myself.
Cool?: You must / cannot do it because of my religious beliefs.
..... I decide for you.
Uncool?: I must / cannot do it because of your religious beliefs.
..... You decide for me?
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)Pretty straightforward concept.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)czarjak
(11,296 posts)Assholes for Jesus, though. He probably laid it on their heart if you ask them.