Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: donna

The freedom to practice a religion does NOT conflate to the United States being founded AS a religious nation. It’s not the Christian equivalent of the Islamic Iran. Anyone who thinks so doesn’t get it. If the founders intended this to BE a ‘religious” nation they would have enshrined a particular religion as the state religion in the constitution. They expressly prohibited any established religion. It’s today’s religious conservatives who are expressly trying to enshrine their religious beliefs into public policy. Which is exactly what the founders forbade in the constitution.


30 posted on 08/08/2010 10:33:57 PM PDT by antonico
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies ]


To: antonico
They expressly prohibited any established religion. It’s today’s religious conservatives who are expressly trying to enshrine their religious beliefs into public policy. Which is exactly what the founders forbade in the constitution.

What they wrote merely forbids the federal government from getting involved in the question at all, besides, who is imposing religion on you, this is politics and law.

The founders did not tolerate homosexuality, do you think that they would have spoken to a homosexual political group?

Do you think that any political party in existence then would have allowed a homosexual activist group within it?

36 posted on 08/08/2010 10:56:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

To: antonico

That’s not what I said. You said America was founded upon individual freedom. It was founded upon freedom of religion.


38 posted on 08/08/2010 10:59:49 PM PDT by donna (Synonyms: Feminism, Marxism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson