Narrow View of Liberty

The liberal mindset so amazing!  The selfsame liberal mind that perceives such expansive form of expression as  pornography, flag burning, naked women in cages, crucifixes in urine, or protesting a solider's funeral with "God hates your dead solider" signs protected as  freedom of speech, sees no free exercise of religion outside at the church house door.  Don't even get me started how that they conveniently ignore the whole second amendment..

Consider the First Amendment to the Constitution.  How did our framers start out the Bill of Rights?  The first section of the First Amendment is about freedom of religion.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. U.S. Constitution, First Amendment

Before ensuring the freedoms of speech, press, assembly, and protest, our founders made sure that they ensured freedom of religion.  This is truly the first freedom. If government is going to invade my mind, and persecute me on my personal, deeply held convictions, then the rest of the freedoms are merely academic.

While holding the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly as sacrosanct,  liberals take a pin knife the to Constitution and remove such troubling sections as the Freedom of Religion and the Tenth Amendment.

Case in point, the Obama administration is currently trying to enforce a healthcare mandate that requires all insurance providers to cover contraception and abortion-inducing drugs.  This violates some peoples deeply held beliefs.  A Christain-ownded company, Hercules Industries, self-insures its 265 employees.  It has some problems with the mandate and has taken the law to court.  The administration said..

Plaintiffs’ free exercise claim fails at the outset because for-profit, secular employers generally do not engage in any exercise of religion protected by the First Amendment.

Pardon me.  I am a Christian.  It permeates every pore of my being, and affects everything I do from the way I work to the clothes I wear.  I engage in exercise of religion every moment of every day of my life.  To say that secular employers don't engage in exercise of religion is wholly and utterly stupid and false.

Chicken

Every since Dan Cathy, an admitted Evangelical Christian,  told a Baptist publication he supported the traditional, Biblical view of marriage, there has been a firestorm of controversy.

I can understand the shock.  I mean, after all, who would have suspected that a born-again, conservative Christian, in an interview with a Christian publication, would come out to side with what the Bible says?  




In other words, if you were shocked by the admission, you were stupid.  Sorry, but that's the honest truth.  If you were only ticked that someone would dare disagree with your politics, then maybe you you need to examine yourself.  After all, there's this whole free-speech thing in the Constitution that most liberals cherish that would seem to apply.

 While I don't have a problem with folks boycotting a store because they don't like its politics, I do have a problem with the tone and tenor of the discussion.  The vitriol was repugnant. 

Since when is disagreeing with somebody "hate?"  Since when is it profane to say "I support marriage between one man and one woman?"  Since when is it OK to verbally assault a minimum wage clerk at a fast food restaurant because of something the CEO said? 

The radical (and dare I would say rabid)  homosexual lobby will destroy anyone, tear down anything and mock anyone that stands in their way of getting their lifestyle venerated.  Veneration is the only word that fits, because tolerance isn't enough.