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To: Leapfrog

If they don't like it, they can go right back where they came from. Why should then majority heed the pittance of the minority?


6 posted on 10/20/2004 12:48:16 PM PDT by toddlintown (“There's a Frog in My Soup”)
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To: toddlintown
Why should then majority heed the pittance of the minority?

Because that is what our county, at least, is all about. You can't have true religious liberty without a profound respect for minority rights.

Most Americans take their religious liberty for granted. But public opinion no longer supports the basic premise behind religious liberty: that in matters of conscience, the majority has no power.

Both Conservatives and liberals alike seem all-too-willing to subject religion to majority vote. I personally am committed to the truly historic Protestant Principle of religious freedom: that we are all responsible, individually to God, for our religious beliefs and worship, that government must stay out of it.

This is what made our country a beacon of religious tolerance and freedom all over the world. This love of religous liberty is what caused the founding of our great nation.

9 posted on 10/20/2004 1:06:34 PM PDT by Tamar1973 ("He who is compassionate to the cruel, ends up being cruel to the compassionate." Chazal)
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To: toddlintown

Wow,you always watch out for the "tyranny of the majority".


10 posted on 10/20/2004 1:07:45 PM PDT by DameAutour (The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place. - P.J. O)
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