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Largely, I agree with you, but FREEDOM OF RELIGION means ALL religions, not just the majority religion that has the money and the votes to put its tenets into law. When the dominant religion abrogates the Constitution I think they are wrong, when they disenfranchise some of the citizenry because they don't like them--bear in mind that the great mass of Christians approved of slavery and not allowing women to own property or vote--then they are wrong. When one religion gets so powerful that they can deny legal freedoms to people they don't approve of, then they are wrong. Just my opinion as one of the people who has been on the receiving end of more compassionate Christian beatings than I like to remember.

[QUOTE="Mare Tranquillity, post: 13149, member: 434"] Largely, I agree with you, but FREEDOM OF RELIGION means ALL religions, not just the majority religion that has the money and the votes to put its tenets into law. When the dominant religion abrogates the Constitution I think they are wrong, when they disenfranchise some of the citizenry because they don't like them--bear in mind that the great mass of Christians approved of slavery and not allowing women to own property or vote--then they are wrong. When one religion gets so powerful that they can deny legal freedoms to people they don't approve of, then they are wrong. Just my opinion as one of the people who has been on the receiving end of more compassionate Christian beatings than I like to remember. [/QUOTE]

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