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To: cloudmountain

And yet, there’s the SCOTUS, throwing religious liberty on the altar of political correctness.

I’ll remind you that this country was founded by Protestants... people who fled the oppression of the Catholic Church and all their wars. The Declaration of Independence was signed by only two Catholics. The rest were Protestants.

In other words, Catholics are the hangers-on in the fight for religious liberty - and in many other cases, they’re the enemy of religious liberty.

Religious liberty has been a bedrock foundation of American political thought since the founding of the country... and now a SCOTUS with no Protestants on it is serene in their dismissal of a case that basically says “If you have a company, you must service clients who display a lifestyle that goes against your religious principles.”

Never before has this happened in the US. And... never before have we had a SCOTUS without any Protestant representation on it.

Coincidence? In light of the absurd and bizarre ruling that enabled Obamacare (another long-held political position of the Catholic Church - socialized medical expenses), I’m pretty certain of my ground now. The SCOTUS is enabling this dismantling of our liberties as part and parcel of a Catholic worldview that now demonstrably controls the Court.


41 posted on 04/07/2014 3:21:25 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave
Do Gay Rights Trump Religious Rights?

No, Freedom of Religion is covered in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The "pursuit of happiness" (gayness) is only mentioned in the Declaration.

44 posted on 04/07/2014 4:03:16 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: NVDave
I’ll remind you that this country was founded by Protestants...

I'll help:



 
 
 
Mayflower Compact
 
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith, etc.

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, 1620.

 
 
 

81 posted on 04/08/2014 4:46:10 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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