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Racism is alive and kicking in Mississippi church
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RE: Racism is alive and kicking in Mississippi church
(April 11, 2016 at 9:16 am)Drich Wrote:
(April 9, 2016 at 5:08 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Yo, Jackass...listen very closely:

No one cares what you or any church considers a "sin". You're free to wear plants on your heads and walk around singing "Ali Baba" for a minimum of three hours a day, if that's what your cult requires.

What you are NOT free to do is to tell other people that they must live according to your practices, to pressure others to do so via legislation or other powers of government (including the use of my tax dollars), or attempt in any other way to make the lives of others harder because of the practice of your religion.

While the government may not tell the Church of Jesus Christ, Christian (aka the official church of the Ku Klux Klan) that they must conduct interracial wedding ceremonies in that church, they may certainly prohibit members of that church from using their businesses or other public services to harm those who do. What they do in the privacy of their homes or sanctuaries is none of our public business. 

This issue was pretty-well settled after they forced the South to stop keeping people of color from being served in restaurants, etc. It appalls me that it's now returning (though generally not over the race issue but over new "sins" Christians have decided to get hot-and-bothered about) to attack those who simply wish to assert the same rights as everyone else already enjoys, under the guise of "Religious Freedom". Horseshit.

It's real simple. Dude owns X. Dude gets to set rules for 'X'. If religion says no Y on X then dude should be able to live out what he believes.

Except. Wait for it. That's not how the law works. That's not how the law has ever worked. That's some kind of mega-libertarian-on-steroids fantasy world that more and more people seem to be living in these days. You can say up and down "that's how it should be", and you can argue for all types of things like repeal of the 14th amendment and other absolutely fringy, crazy half-thought-out "solutions."  That's your right, and it's our (the collective normal sane people) right to laugh at that.  But when you argue that's how it is, well, you're simply, factually, wrong.
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RE: Racism is alive and kicking in Mississippi church - by TheRealJoeFish - April 11, 2016 at 9:38 am

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