There's been a lot of noise and thunder - mostly significant of nothing - about "religious freedom" in the mediasphere lately.
This diary got started on Facebook. I don't want to go off on a rant here, but ya'll made me do it. So I'm going there.
Here's a principle about how religious freedom is supposed to work. You create a framework of high personal religious liberty, with a progressive social structure, allowing each individual to choose for themselves whatever personal spiritual pathway that suits their convictions. You do NOT legislate specific restrictive religious doctrine and restrictions into the laws of the land for ALL citizens regardless of what faith they are, or whether or not they are religious persons.
But of course if your tradition is missionary or evangelical, apparently you do exactly that.
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