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ACLU: Why we can no longer support the federal ‘religious freedom’ law
Washington Post ^ | June 25, 2015 | Louise Melling

Posted on 06/27/2015 9:52:13 AM PDT by C19fan

Iknoor Singh, a student at Hofstra University, thought he had found his calling when he attended a campus meeting of the U.S. Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. But when he tried to sign up, he was told that he would have to shave his beard, cut his hair and remove his turban. When he asked for a religious accommodation as a Sikh, the Army refused, saying that these articles of faith would undermine unit cohesion and morale, readiness, health and safety, and discipline.

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Yes, religious freedom needs protection. But religious liberty doesn’t mean the right to discriminate or to impose one’s views on others. The RFRA wasn’t meant to force employees to pay a price for their employer’s faith, or to allow businesses to refuse to serve gay and transgender people, or to sanction government-funded discrimination. In the civil rights era, we rejected the claims of those who said it would violate their religion to integrate. We can’t let the RFRA be used as a tool for a different result now.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aclu; antichristian; communistgoals; freedom; liberalbigots; nuclearfamily; oped; religious; religiousfreedom; religiousintolerance; rfra; scrotus; waronmarriage; waronreligion
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To: C19fan

Sikhs are cultured and peace-loving. The middle eastern death cult is violent, intolerant, deceptive and hateful, but is given special favors.


21 posted on 06/27/2015 11:55:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
There is an old saying. When in Rome, you do what the Romans do. We need to get back to that.

When in the United States, as it was envisioned, you do what you need to; to stay here. You can't make up your own rules.

22 posted on 06/27/2015 12:41:14 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: Parmy

I can’t make up my own rules but neither will I disobey God at the command of the government.

Liberals ruin everything. They are disgusting, nasty slimeballs.


23 posted on 06/27/2015 12:48:35 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

And they lie, they are sneaky and they do not play by the rules. How do we play by the rules hen the opposition never does. We did all the hard work on the marriage issue and the slimeballs on the left just lied, cheated, packed the courts and won in a way that knocks us out of the game.

Liberals are evil.


24 posted on 06/27/2015 12:52:05 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: ponygirl
This is one place that the government will not touch! The Separation of Church and State works both ways they cannot tell us how to worship, or what we believe is write or wrong as long as we don't show or name or persuade our congregations to vote for or against a bill from the pulpit.

Leave that up to a separate committee who may be members of the church, but not in the church's name.

25 posted on 06/27/2015 1:55:50 PM PDT by Gary722 (Church and State are Seperate. It is a good thing.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I think we missed gun control issues by everyone focusing in on the confer date flag instead.


26 posted on 06/27/2015 1:55:50 PM PDT by Gary722 (the Dixie flag took the eyes off gun control- for now.)
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To: Sherman Logan
...we don't really have a logical reason to refuse extension of those same protections to other groups.

I'm not drinking the homosexual koolaid you're serving up. Who people are and what activities they engage in and or promote are not one and the same thing. One can love the sinner while hating the sin. There is such a thing as just discrimination.

27 posted on 06/27/2015 3:10:44 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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To: bert

“ACLU lawyers have no right to live, to breathe, to exist”

I totally agree with that wholeheartedly. Ditto for the Southern Poverty Law Center.


28 posted on 06/27/2015 4:46:59 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Pray. It's the last arrow in the quiver.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

The answer is ethical vigilantism.


29 posted on 06/27/2015 5:16:37 PM PDT by Mmmike
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To: C19fan

Anti-Christian Liberties Union


30 posted on 06/27/2015 5:42:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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To: C19fan

As a simple Theonomic positivist, I’ll never understand what grounds non-theists think exist for any objective, external standard . . . of anything.


31 posted on 06/27/2015 8:22:15 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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To: C19fan

SINCE WHEN... HAS THE ACLU SUPPORTED ANY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM????????????????


32 posted on 12/06/2016 8:35:06 AM PST by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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SINCE WHEN... HAS THE ACLU SUPPORTED ANY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM????????????????


33 posted on 12/06/2016 8:35:12 AM PST by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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