ACLU: Why we can no longer support the federal ‘religious freedom’ law

Washington Post ^ | June 25, 2015 | Louise Melling

[C19fan]

Iknoor Singh, a student at Hofstra University, thought he had found his calling when he attended a campus meeting of the U.S. Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. But when he tried to sign up, he was told that he would have to shave his beard, cut his hair and remove his turban. When he asked for a religious accommodation as a Sikh, the Army refused, saying that these articles of faith would undermine unit cohesion and morale, readiness, health and safety, and discipline.

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Yes, religious freedom needs protection. But religious liberty doesn’t mean the right to discriminate or to impose one’s views on others. The RFRA wasn’t meant to force employees to pay a price for their employer’s faith, or to allow businesses to refuse to serve gay and transgender people, or to sanction government-funded discrimination. In the civil rights era, we rejected the claims of those who said it would violate their religion to integrate. We can’t let the RFRA be used as a tool for a different result now.

[I want the USA back]

Sikhs are cultured and peace-loving. The middle eastern death cult is violent, intolerant, deceptive and hateful, but is given special favors.

[Parmy]

There is an old saying. When in Rome, you do what the Romans do. We need to get back to that.

When in the United States, as it was envisioned, you do what you need to; to stay here. You can't make up your own rules.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I can’t make up my own rules but neither will I disobey God at the command of the government.

Liberals ruin everything. They are disgusting, nasty slimeballs.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

And they lie, they are sneaky and they do not play by the rules. How do we play by the rules hen the opposition never does. We did all the hard work on the marriage issue and the slimeballs on the left just lied, cheated, packed the courts and won in a way that knocks us out of the game.

Liberals are evil.

[Gary722]

This is one place that the government will not touch! The Separation of Church and State works both ways they cannot tell us how to worship, or what we believe is write or wrong as long as we don't show or name or persuade our congregations to vote for or against a bill from the pulpit.

Leave that up to a separate committee who may be members of the church, but not in the church's name.

[Gary722]

I think we missed gun control issues by everyone focusing in on the confer date flag instead.

[DBeers]

...we don't really have a logical reason to refuse extension of those same protections to other groups.

I'm not drinking the homosexual koolaid you're serving up. Who people are and what activities they engage in and or promote are not one and the same thing. One can love the sinner while hating the sin. There is such a thing as just discrimination.

[ScottinVA]

“ACLU lawyers have no right to live, to breathe, to exist”

I totally agree with that wholeheartedly. Ditto for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

[Mmmike]

The answer is ethical vigilantism.

[VeniVidiVici]

Anti-Christian Liberties Union

[Zionist Conspirator]

As a simple Theonomic positivist, I’ll never understand what grounds non-theists think exist for any objective, external standard . . . of anything.

[mainestategop]

SINCE WHEN... HAS THE ACLU SUPPORTED ANY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM????????????????

[mainestategop]

SINCE WHEN... HAS THE ACLU SUPPORTED ANY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM????????????????