The use of the courts to deny a group that disagrees with you the right to the free exercise of their religion is absolutely not a right protected by the Constitution. It’s a form of tyranny, very much like wanting to forbid people to smoke in public. People who do this effectively say: "Suuure you have a right to your own conscience and to believe in whatever you want – but if you don’t agree with our beliefs, better keep it to yourself inside the four walls of your home, or your church – or else!”
As we know from the modus operandi of the anti-smoking lobby, efforts to prohibit the free use by people of their minds and lower jaw bones won’t stop at your or your church’s doorstep. Some municipalities are trying to prohibit smoking even in the privacy of people’s homes. The same thing will happen with the right to worship.
"Well alright, then" the God-respecting part of the public says. “Can we ask the same courtesy in return? For example, if you believe that being gay is cool or somehow charming or enchanting, can we ask you to keep that belief to yourself? If you must, do whatever you want behind your closed bedroom doors (or whatever other doors you might want to do it behind), but just don’t jump up and down and scream about it so loudly in public.”
Man, oh man! If any public figure ever said that, the media firestorm would never end. But then, what about reciprocity? What about ‘fairness’? What about ‘tolerance’? People of faith are constantly forced to tolerate all kinds of antics perpetrated by the anti-God lobby. Ironically, that includes constantly being called “bigoted” or “intolerant”.
Why should that tolerance not be returned?
To keep a potentially endless debate to a minimum, the entire thing ultimately really boils down to the following three points:
1. Whether or not God stays out of politics and public life is just not up to you or me. It’s up to him.
2. Whether or not you keep God out of your life is completely up to you. You can exercise that right to the max, and nobody will complain about it.
3. Keeping God out of other people’s lives is absolutely not up to you. It is their business, not yours, so shut up.
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