Comments on: The Real Threat to Religious Liberty http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/blog/the-real-threat-to-religious-liberty/ Stories of Harnessing Love's Power to Stop Oppression Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:37:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Laura Jackson http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/blog/the-real-threat-to-religious-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Laura Jackson Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:48:49 +0000 http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/?p=2639#comment-1634 Marriage is a civil right. Defend equal rights for all and do not dicriminate. Marriage is a civil right. Defend equal rights for all and do not dicriminate.

]]> By: tracy L avent http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/blog/the-real-threat-to-religious-liberty/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 tracy L avent Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:00:40 +0000 http://www.standingonthesideoflove.org/?p=2639#comment-1632 My exercise of civil rights does not threaten anyone else's civil rights. Rights are understood to be practically limited where they infringe upon the rights of another party. If two people get married, that cannot possibly affect the rights of a third person, unless that person is already married to one of the first two. Beyond that, precepts of a given religious belief system are strictly that: practices of those members. They cannot and must not be enforced as law in any form, at any level of government. That is what the passage "Congress shall make no law with respect to religion" means. My exercise of civil rights does not threaten anyone else’s civil rights. Rights are understood to be practically limited where they infringe upon the rights of another party. If two people get married, that cannot possibly affect the rights of a third person, unless that person is already married to one of the first two.

Beyond that, precepts of a given religious belief system are strictly that: practices of those members. They cannot and must not be enforced as law in any form, at any level of government. That is what the passage “Congress shall make no law with respect to religion” means.

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