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In reply to the discussion: Religious Freedom?? We need a new term. [View all]Yorktown
(2,884 posts)52. Freedom stops when you threaten others. Simple.
I am not free to threaten to kill you, your grandmother and your canary bird.
Those would be death threats which should give you a right to get me convicted.
It is not a slippery slope to say parts of the religious discourse are hate speech.
Which should be curtailed.
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I'm not a fan of lumping. Call people assholes if they are assholes, and call people
MADem
Mar 2015
#4
Huh? People at the Unitarian Universalist church "believe" but they don't "hate."
MADem
Mar 2015
#14
I don't presume to speak for them but I had a cousin who was active in that church and
MADem
Mar 2015
#35
Well, they came out in droves for my cousin's funeral, from all walks of life, all circumstances,
MADem
Mar 2015
#38
Your OP didn't include that reference point--it appeared generic, so I took it that way.
MADem
Mar 2015
#10
I like that as well because it can be applied to other areas besides these laws.
cbayer
Mar 2015
#25
Telling children that non-believers are going to hell is threatening nobody
Starboard Tack
Mar 2015
#54
I chose "Religious Discrimination" at first, but that smacked of martyrdom, so I changed my vote
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2015
#56