To: coffeebreak
"ALL religious freedoms should be protected equally."
Yeah, but what qualifies as a religion - what if I want my kid to be able to go to school naked because I say it's my religion? I think in all honesty the framers of the Constitution had Christians in mind when they wrote about freedom of religion.
17 posted on
03/30/2004 7:54:37 PM PST by
afz400
To: afz400
Yeah, but what qualifies as a religion - what if I want my kid to be able to go to school naked because I say it's my religion? I think in all honesty the framers of the Constitution had Christians in mind when they wrote about freedom of religion.They had in mind Christianity and religions like Judaism which share in common with Christianity certain core values derived from what 18th-century philosophy regarded as natural rights. To the extent practitioners of Islam can abide by those core values, there is no problem. But when a religion radically departs from those core values, as fundamentalist Islam does, it undermines the foundation of what the Constitution's concept of freedom of religion is based on.
24 posted on
03/30/2004 8:02:30 PM PST by
Fedora
To: afz400
"I think in all honesty the framers of the Constitution had Christians in mind when they wrote about freedom of religion."
And they did.
The Founding Fathers founded the country for their Christian progeny.
55 posted on
03/30/2004 9:03:08 PM PST by
YoSoy2
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