TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
In the wake of a Houston mayor demanding that five pastors turn over the content of their sermons, I thought of a few quotes from Samuel Adams in Amendment IX of Rights of Colonists written in 1772, and it goes as such:
What happened was an abuse of power by an openly gay mayor. It was a blatant abuse of religious freedom that no Liberal nor Atheist can deny. Now, the state (or government) has crossed over into the affairs of the church, thus which evokes another statement by Adams:
You hear that? Even the founders understood that the right to religious freedom should not be abridged by another individual nor society. So even as the Mayor appears to back off of her demands, she throws one last punch: by demanding their 'speeches.' So what are sermons? They are speeches. Thusly, she is maintaining her demands in attempt of feeble subterfuge, which calls for another quote by Adams:
So, who now thinks government grants "just and true liberty" to those of faith? If you think they do, raise your hands and please stand up, because you are part of the problem.
If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave-
What happened was an abuse of power by an openly gay mayor. It was a blatant abuse of religious freedom that no Liberal nor Atheist can deny. Now, the state (or government) has crossed over into the affairs of the church, thus which evokes another statement by Adams:
As neither reason requires, nor religeon [sic] permits the contrary, every Man living in or out of a state of civil society, has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience-
You hear that? Even the founders understood that the right to religious freedom should not be abridged by another individual nor society. So even as the Mayor appears to back off of her demands, she throws one last punch: by demanding their 'speeches.' So what are sermons? They are speeches. Thusly, she is maintaining her demands in attempt of feeble subterfuge, which calls for another quote by Adams:
Just and true liberty, equal and impartial liberty" in matters spiritual and temporal, is a thing that all Men are clearly entitled to, by the eternal and immutable laws Of God and nature, as well as by the law of Nations, & all well grounded municipal laws, which must have their foundation in the former.--
So, who now thinks government grants "just and true liberty" to those of faith? If you think they do, raise your hands and please stand up, because you are part of the problem.