[lentulusgracchus]

So do you believe that means that no other religions should have any rights here? That they should be treated as enemies of the state? Because that is what it sounds like.

You don't get it.

You are spending your energy and lavishing your concern on people who don't care about your solicitude, whose only concern is to drive your neck down and make you incline before their faith. Nothing else engages their interest.

As such, they demonstrably and definitively fall outside the design parameters of U.S. society and its social compact, as described by Madison, Hamilton, and John Adams, all of whom founded our institutions on a base of Western Christianity and Western civilization.

That's the point.

[CA Conservative]

You are spending your energy and lavishing your concern on people who don't care about your solicitude, whose only concern is to drive your neck down and make you incline before their faith. Nothing else engages their interest.

You don't get it. My concern is not primarily for them. My concern is for me and my family. If we place muslims outside the protections of the Constitution, then what happens when someone wants to place MY religion outside the protections of the Constitution? What about when the government decides that it doesn't want ANY religion to have the primary allegiance of its citizens?

[CA Conservative]

You are spending your energy and lavishing your concern on people who don't care about your solicitude, whose only concern is to drive your neck down and make you incline before their faith. Nothing else engages their interest.

You don't get it. My concern is not primarily for them. My concern is for me and my family. If we place muslims outside the protections of the Constitution, then what happens when someone wants to place MY religion outside the protections of the Constitution? What about when the government decides that it doesn't want ANY religion to have the primary allegiance of its citizens?