(August 30, 2017 at 7:42 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:

(August 29, 2017 at 4:41 pm)alpha male Wrote: You guys shouldn't care...and yet you apparently do.

I"ll shut up when you stop proposing laws to favor your fairy tale.

Sounds like the boogeyman to me. Do you have any recent examples of laws that favor religion?

(August 30, 2017 at 8:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 7:42 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: I"ll shut up when you stop proposing laws to favor your fairy tale.

Sounds like the boogeyman to me. Do you have any recent examples of laws that favor religion?

Pick any state that has passed or proposed a Religious Freedom Act.  It's really not about favoring religion, though.  They only favor christianity.

I'm playing along, as I can't believe you're so deep in your bubble that you don't know of these things.

(August 30, 2017 at 8:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 7:42 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: I"ll shut up when you stop proposing laws to favor your fairy tale.

Sounds like the boogeyman to me. Do you have any recent examples of laws that favor religion?

Twenty six bishops in the UK House of Lords? These uneducated old fools have a vote on education policy, science funding, gay rights issues and woman's issues. They are an anachronism and should done away with. I recommend pentobarbital.

Even if these dickhead trolls are just fucking around about being that stupid, it's not goddamn funny. This is deadly fucking serious so even being fair-weather about it is unacceptable. Either nut up and support these fanatics' efforts to instill religious dominion or condemn them for the criminals they are and stand against them, there's no fucking middle ground.

(August 30, 2017 at 8:45 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 8:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Sounds like the boogeyman to me. Do you have any recent examples of laws that favor religion?

Pick any state that has passed or proposed a Religious Freedom Act.  It's really not about favoring religion, though.  They only favor christianity.

I'm playing along, as I can't believe you're so deep in your bubble that you don't know of these things.

I could be wrong about this, but aren't there laws protecting the use of the burka in situations where covering your face would otherwise not be allowed?

(August 30, 2017 at 9:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 8:45 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Pick any state that has passed or proposed a Religious Freedom Act.  It's really not about favoring religion, though.  They only favor christianity.

I'm playing along, as I can't believe you're so deep in your bubble that you don't know of these things.

I could be wrong about this, but aren't there laws protecting the use of the burka in situations where covering your face would otherwise not be allowed?

I couldn't say.  But here in the US, exercising that right could be dangerous.

(August 30, 2017 at 7:42 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:

(August 29, 2017 at 4:41 pm)alpha male Wrote: You guys shouldn't care...and yet you apparently do.

I"ll shut up when you stop proposing laws to favor your fairy tale.

Posting on an atheist forum has no effect on proposed laws.

(August 30, 2017 at 8:45 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 8:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Sounds like the boogeyman to me. Do you have any recent examples of laws that favor religion?

Pick any state that has passed or proposed a Religious Freedom Act.  It's really not about favoring religion, though.  They only favor christianity.

I'm playing along, as I can't believe you're so deep in your bubble that you don't know of these things.

Are you saying that Christians should only be allowed to practice their religion in private? You do realize that the freedom of conscience and the free exercise of religion is a protected human right subject only to a compelling state interest, which is a very high standard. Or have you stopped believing in human rights? Or maybe you think some human rights are more equal than others.

(August 30, 2017 at 9:55 am)Harry Nevis Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 9:50 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I could be wrong about this, but aren't there laws protecting the use of the burka in situations where covering your face would otherwise not be allowed?

I couldn't say.  But here in the US, exercising that right could be dangerous.

You claimed the law only favors Christianity.

(August 30, 2017 at 10:08 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:

(August 30, 2017 at 9:55 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: I couldn't say.  But here in the US, exercising that right could be dangerous.

You claimed the law only favors Christianity.

Not just Islam either. Native American' are exempt from certain drug prohibitions. Conscientious objectors do not have to serve militarily, regardless of faith or lack thereof. Sacramental wine was exempt during prohibition. Obscenity laws are not specific to any religious traditions. Anything he can imagine would apply equally to orthodox Jews. For some reason I think this has to do with wedding cakes.