“Okay, I’ll answer your question. None of those things you list compel me to do anything. I don’t have to pray if I don’t want to. I don’t have to have an abortion. I don’t have to enter into a gay marriage. So, no, I don’t feel that my freedom is impinged by any of those.”
You’re trying to dumb down the conversation just to win a stupid argument on the internet.
You know darn well no community can stop abortion or pray in a public school.....and very soon you wont be able to stop your children from being taught YOU are a horrible person if you dont support gay marriage.
“And the mechanisms that would allow you to change any of those are intact—the constitutional amendment process. Gather enough people who agree with you and you can change the laws, or the government, to suit you. Like I said, you have a loose definition of dictatorial. Or dictorial.”
Like school prayer? forced bussing? gay marriage? (all imposed against the will of the people) Many states are heavily anti-abortion...where is the freedom on these things? All are imposed by the federal government against the will of the people.
If you honestly think these things will change simply because we choose to believe the same way you’ve been living in a cave.
Many states and localities are also strongly against the right to bear arms flatly guaranteed to American citizens by the 2nd Amendment. I'm glad our Union heroes fought for the Constitution against the Confederates' crusade for all-powerful dictatorial state and local government.
They can stop abortion by not having them. I have yet to see an abortion clinic kidnapping pregnant women off the street. And any child is free to pray privately in school.
.and very soon you wont be able to stop your children from being taught YOU are a horrible person if you dont support gay marriage.
Then it's your job as a parent to teach them differently, or home school, or send them to a private school more to your ideological satisfaction.
Like school prayer? forced bussing? gay marriage? (all imposed against the will of the people) Many states are heavily anti-abortion...where is the freedom on these things? All are imposed by the federal government against the will of the people.
So you don't believe that your vote counts? That the Constitution can be amended? Or are you just unhappy that not enough people agree with you to make the changes you want? As far as many states being heavily anti-abortion, not so much. Utah is about 60-40 against abortion and it goes down from there. Pro-choice beats pro-life in 3/4ths of the states.