Thursday, September 20, 2012

Freedom of Religion and the Social Contract

The events of the last week have brought to our attention the freedoms enunciated in the First Amendment to the US Constitution, and how other jurisdictions don't extend the same protections. The Left is now calling upon suppressing freedom of speech that is "offensive" to Muslims. The irony is that they have it exactly backwards. If anyone's freedom of speech/religion deserves to be abridged, it's the Muslims themselves.
The First Amendment says two things about religion:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
I see these two as a package deal: The Episcopalians agreed not to try to be the official state religion in exchange for the Catholics not having Inquisitions to punish heretics, etc. To participate in religious liberty, your religion has to allow that same liberty to others. If you believe you have the right to use violence against those who disagree with you, then we have the right to use violence to stop you.
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2 comments:

  1. Otto GassSeptember 22, 2012 at 1:02 AM

    First time I've laughed in a while - always liked Pat but particularly enjoyed this one.

    My apologies for not visiting frequently enough to have noticed when you moved to your own domain. I'm happy to see you are active. Cheers!

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  2. DougmanSeptember 26, 2012 at 3:42 PM

    Excellent. I'm going to share this video to my fb page.
    Does the Monster have a facebook account?

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