uptownlivin90
Rebelious Youngin
I have yet to see one law that has been passed that has forced anyone to participate in any kind of religious cermony or forces someone to give up their religion for another one. There is not one so your right to practice your religion was always safe.
-Rastafarians.
-State marriage being defined as whatever the state wants it to be restricts churches rights to define marriage based on their religious beliefs.
Anytime you begin "legislating morality" and what people do in the privacy of their own home and lives you risk restricting other's beliefs.
PLUS, we are not and will never be a christian nation. We don't have a state religion. We've gone back and forth in that direction before, but gladly we've never taken a full step towards it. Which is why, yeah you've probably never seen any of that happen before. Keep letting the wackos push for a "christian nation" though.
Has that law forbid you from attending a church, your own choice about what you believe, or restricted you from practicing your own religion? It has not because despite this law being founded on a judeo-christian belief it still has not forbid other faiths from being establlished in this country. That is what the first amendment was designed to do. To protect people's right to form a religion on their own.
You are assuming that freedom of religion is the only right upon which "the church" or a state religion can step on first of all. Islamofacist nations use the exact same excuse to support their ideas. They claim to have an Islamic based system, you can attend the church of your choice, practice as you choose but the moral code that the law is based upon is Quranic in nature.
That's why in this nation laws against adultery, fornication, and homosexuality are enforced, and the private lives of the citizens of these nations are controlled by the state. This is the real danger behind having a "christian nation". It's not in the restriction of religious worship, it's in the allowing a christian moral code to control the private lives of citizens. Islamofascism does not always restrict other religions, but it forces upon the citizens of Islamofascist nations a moral code based upon the Quran.
Having an agenda based upon a moral code coming from a specific religion and trying to force that agenda on the nation's citizens is dangerous. I govern myself by a moral code that I personally derive from the Bible as a moderate adventist christian. That is how I govern my personal day to day activities, simply because I have the right to do so. You have the right to conduct yourself in a similar manner, or not to. That's where the question of civil liberties comes in, and how forcing one religion's "moral codes" upon the population is dangerous.
If we're going to have a real discussion about how keep the government out of people's personal lives in the total sense, a moral code based upon religious beliefs governing this nation shouldn't even be apart of the conversation. Why should promoting christianity be a function of government? Why should promoting a private and personal affairs such as religion be the concern of the state? It shouldn't. There is no real reason why it should, and we critize Islamic nations for doing exactly what many within the christian right wing would do: legislating morality based upon a set of religious beliefs. That to me, is unacceptable.