Sunday, March 9, 2014

News Flash to Christian Right: Religious Freedom Doesn't Give You the Right to Control Other People

www.alternet.org/books/new-book-far-persecuted-religious-rights-take-first-amendment-offensive-and-intolerant
"What the Religious Right labels “persecution” is something else entirely: it is the natural pushback that occurs when any one sectarian group goes too far in trying to control the lives of others. Americans are more than happy to allow religious organizations to tend to their own matters and make their own decisions about internal governance. When those religious groups overstep their bounds and demand that people who don’t even subscribe to their beliefs follow their rigid theology, that is another matter entirely."