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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, Lord! "The First Amendment protects only the practice of the Christian faith."
Nutcase alert-SB 1062 should never have had to be written
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Glen (online)
The First Amendment protects only the practice of the Christian faith.
The Arizona Republic gathered the twenty, or so, protestors against S.B. 1062 close together for a photo to place on the front cover of their Thursday edition. The gathering together is an attempt to show that thousands of protestors came to their demonstration.
In the center of the photo they placed a guy who just happens to be able to afford the tab-collar clergy shirt with a sign about how religions should be against this legislation. I am not sure from which Internet U this person obtained his certification, but they certainly had no requirement to read the Bible.
The columnists at the Republic are in full swing typing out their indignation at the discrimination.
Of course, when you are dealing with a group of people who get their Constitutional training from the Salon and Russia Today web sites, it is difficult for them to understand that this legislation should never have been written. You see, there is already a law that protects the right of those of the Christian faith to not serve those who are clearly abhorrent to that faith.
Its called the First Amendment.
more insanity:
http://williamsteaparty.com/2014/02/24/sb-1062-written/
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Oh, Lord! "The First Amendment protects only the practice of the Christian faith." (Original Post)
n2doc
Feb 2014
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)1. Bzzzzt, no. Thanks for playing 'Really Dumb Ideas'!
Where do they get this crap?
eShirl
(18,495 posts)2. They have nothing BUT dumb ideas.
riqster
(13,986 posts)3. Scary shit.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)4. Terrifying that these people are even allowed to vote.
Aristus
(66,430 posts)5. Have they ever even read the Constitution?
Or, you know, had someone read it to them?...
Initech
(100,088 posts)8. $10 says that they haven't read the constitution or the Bible,
Or even taken a high school history class for that matter.
jsr
(7,712 posts)6. Well, God wrote it
Gothmog
(145,415 posts)7. Tom DeLay is an idiot
Only someone as stupid as Tom DeLay would make that comment
Token Republican
(242 posts)9. Two good counter arguments
First:
As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion ...
From the Treaty Of Triopli, 1796
Second:
You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor
Exodus 20:16 16
Scholars have spent decades, centuries even, trying to understand this passage from the holy book, and the consensus is that it means don't lie and make shit up.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)10. and guess why the Founders never said that?
because "everyone knew that's what they meant".
The First Amendment was meant only to protect the Christian faith. When the founders spoke of religion, they meant the Christian religion. They did not have to keep saying the Christian religion because everyone knew that is what they were talking about.