Any TRUE Conservatie believes in PRIVATE PROPERTY rights.
1) I don’t agree with Wegman’s or Sears for not playing Christmas music, but I believe it is their absolute right to play it or not play it.
As a customer of one of those stores I have no constitutional right to hear Christmas music while I am shopping there. I have the right to express my feelings about it, or to shop elsewhere, though.
2) I briefly looked at the Keeton case, and from what I’ve read so far, I think she was treated unfairly and her rights were violated.
I believe a student in her situation can be required to be able to recite what the text books and the professors say on issues like that, but should not be forced to say she agrees with them.
That said, there are many aspects of psychology that are at so at odds with the teachings of Christianity, that it might be as easy to be a “Christian stripper” or “Christian bank robber” as a “Christian psychologist”, at least if we are talking about psychology as it is generally taught and practiced in the secular world.
For example, psychology generally tries to raise the self-esteem of sinners, rather than humble them, it tends to validate sin rather than rebuke it, and it tends to seek to place the blame for one’s sin on others (parents, spouses, etc.) rather than encouraging the sinner to take responsibility and repent.
I am a conservative. A Constitutional conservative. There's no church/state separation, SCOTUS cannot legislate from the bench,etc. The Constitution also gives us freedom OF religion, not FROM it as some dimwitted atheist activists would have you believe. As our founding fathers were practicing Christians it is hard to believe they ever would have imagined a country where people would be telling others they indeed do NOT have that freedom after all.
And it seems a lot of you are missing the main point: The management of this store disinvited this woman and her study group after one complaint after two years of none. We do not have any business speculating outside of the facts as they have been presented in this news item. All we have is the aforementioned.
After hearing time and time again about people not being able to pray or display Scripture simply because one person objected, I find it both appalling and pathetic that people who would call themselves conservatives would defend such a thing by simply ignoring it.
In truth, this isn't about private property rights anymore than it is about me, so for those of you who wanted so badly to try to make it about me by making the lame strawman, "Let's go to Houmatt's house and do whatever" wasted their time and precious bandwidth.