(August 10, 2014 at 10:54 am)Brian37 Wrote: I wasn't speaking so much to you but to any potential reader no matter their background or leanings.
(August 10, 2014 at 9:36 am)Diablo Wrote: Any fair and reasonable state should have a secular government, since that is the only way the rights of minorities can be preserved. That's why the leaders in the Middle East fear political Islam, since it would produce an Islamic state with the persecution of Christian and other minorities. Look what happened in Egypt with the Muslim Brotherhood power-grab. Imagine what kind of state ISIS would implement.
So?
"I am not like the others" is not my argument. No Israel is not a religiously fascist state, but it is till setting up a social pecking order just like when Americans say "Christian nation". A watered down social pecking order is still a social pecking order.
You can have freedom of religion and equality for all races WITHOUT putting language in law that favors one group over another.
Your last sentence doesn't really make sense. The only way you can have freedom of religion and equality is by legislating for them.
