(August 4, 2018 at 12:36 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(August 4, 2018 at 12:33 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: His policy on marijuana demonstrates a lack of respect for people's private choices that they make in their own private lives. He resists measures taken by states via their own democratic processes to legalize a mostly harmless drug due to his good ol' boy mentality. He's shown America what he's about numerous times by pushing backwards policies.
It's not "just a feeling" to wonder if he's not going to carry that same backwards-minded mentality into his religious liberty task force efforts. It's a genuine concern. I didn't say he was going to use his "task force" to infringe upon nonbelievers, but given his attitude concerning numerous issues, I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
I don't know anything about the marijuana issues. But it seems unrelated. Would you say this is more of a personal thing against Sessions (trust) than anything within the proposals for a Religious Liberty Task force?
Generally speaking, I advocate for religious liberty, so (on paper) a task force whose purpose was to ensure "the free exercise thereof" is no problem for me.
So long as your religious rites do not harm others (ie unlike the Satanism example a few pages back), nobody should be allowed to infringe upon your ability to worship or profess your beliefs to others.
But let me ask my original question again: What contemporary issue concerning religious liberty is so pressing that it warrants a task force?
That there isn't a clear answer to that question is one of my main issues with the proposal.
