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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (52775)7/9/2002 12:58:57 PM
From: Solon  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
"It would have been better had the issue never been raised at all"

I disagree. It was an intrusion into everything that makes the United States a harbour for freedom and rights. The moment that a particular mystical dogma becomes a State initiative is the moment that ALL individual freedom is usurped. When you lose the right to think...you lose the right to BE.

I don't want to go to a mosque every day to avoid suffering ostracism or a slit throat. But if the State is anything but neutral to religion (and that includes the right to NOT be a mystic), then the right to dissent may not be justified on a rational basis. You will then believe and act as you are required to by those who command the boys who carry the guns. People take the Constitution and Bill of Rights for granted. They think you can fuck with it. They are wrong.
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