(May 16, 2015 at 5:12 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: To the extent that our laws reflect our moral conscience, it might be unavoidable that theists insert their theistic morality into the public discourse. The alternative for theists would be to just sit down, shut up, and let the nontheists run things as they see fit. Would that be a reasonable attitude for theists to take?
That's a false dichotomy. One one hand, you can try to make it so everyone has to live by your version of morality. On the other, you can sit down and shut up and let everyone run roughshod over you.
In the middle, there's realizing that this country was founded on personal freedom. You do it your way, and don't try to legislate that everyone else do it your way. Vote for personal liberty. Realize that just because you vote for someone's liberty to do something that you disagree with, this doesn't mean that you tacitly approve of it or that you are required to do it yourself. A fair bit of this country would vote to make homosexuality a crime. That is so antithetical to what America was founded on. If such a hypothetical law criminalizing homosexuality were proposed, how would you vote? If you would vote against it, does that mean that you approve of homosexuality?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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