thegreekdog wrote:Some relevant news items:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/20726/wat ... k-berrien#Democrats attack a super hot Catholic judicial nominee over her religion. It's illegal to do this in the United States, but no one seems to care (other than people like me).
This is absolutely a problem. That being said, I have difficulty taking anything that Feinstein does seriously - she lives hypocricy.
thegreekdog wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/bannon-catholic-church/index.html
The king of conservative media (or whatever) is drudging up old 19th century anti-Catholic stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
It's Bannon...I don't expect anything but chaos when Bannon is involved.
thegreekdog wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/in-major-supreme-court-case-justice-dept-sides-with-baker-who-refused-to-make-wedding-cake-for-gay-couple/2017/09/07/fb84f116-93f0-11e7-89fa-bb822a46da5b_story.html?utm_term=.60080335a3eb
A baker who doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding for religious reasons is getting his ass kicked.
Good. He should. You don't get to ignore the law just because you run a business. If your personal morals make you not willing to follow the laws that apply to your business, then you should go into a business that better aligns with your morals.
thegreekdog wrote:Is religious freedom on the way out in the United States?
That's cute. In a nation where not a single President has been elected who wasn't at least tacitly claiming to be a Christian, there arises the idea that Christians are persecuted. Cute.
thegreekdog wrote:Do you think we see a partial repeal of the 1st Amendment (either through an amendment or judicial activism)?
Not a chance.
thegreekdog wrote:Why are Democrats and liberals (and libertarians) focusing on Christians/Catholics and not other religions?
SOME Democrats. Most liberals aren't any more enamored of Islam than they are Christianity, there just frankly aren't as many American Muslims doing things outrageous enough to cause a reaction as there are American Christians. That's really the difference...American Christians seem to have started to lose their minds lately (as a whole, obviously it doesn't apply to all).
...I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.