RE: So much about religious liberty
February 8, 2019 at 5:25 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2019 at 5:27 pm by Brian37.)
(February 8, 2019 at 4:50 pm)Nakara Wrote:(February 8, 2019 at 4:41 pm)Brian37 Wrote: This is very dangerous. It was not ruling against an unreasonable request any Christian prisoner would not make. It is really an attempt to set up a religious pecking order in this country. It isn't about the death penalty, that needs to be abolished based on cost to tax payers alone.
Rulings like this could lead to discrimination outside a prison. Nobody has to like what a criminal is convicted of, not the point of this response.
Yep. If the state is going to offer it for one religion, they must offer it for all of them.
I don’t feel one bit sorry for this poor excuse of a man, HE didn’t let his victims have any last rites and got to breath another 20 years after denying them their lives, but it is wrong of the state to deny him a right offered to others simply based on his religion.
Let them get away with this, then they’ll try to get away with more.
That is the point.
There has been a constant attempt, since the the Constitution was signed off on, to attack the concept of neutrality in the First Amendment and the oath of office.
Far too many people in America don't know their history. The introduction of "God" on coins didn't start until 1890s, and only on select coins. The pledge was written by a Baptist Socialist, in the original version did not contain "Under God".
But the push to erode Jefferson's wall really took off during the 1950s when "God" was put on all money, and in the Pledge. I think that was reaction to two things, the cold war with the USSR, and the beginning of the Civil Rights movement.
The rise of Jerry Falwell and the election of Reagan, has widened the crack in Jefferson's wall.
But the truth is, when you survey worldwide history, you can see a pattern where a given society's social norms are challenged, the conservative part of that society, whom were once used to being the majority, fear change and push back. This ruling coming from this court says the old school knows they are losing and are grasping at straws.
It is sad to see at t his point in time, in America, with all the progress we've made since the start of the country, to see this attempt to turn back the clock.
