I was having a good day until someone said their religious rights take precedence...

[cynatnite]

over my nonreligious rights.

It was my fucking sister. I love her dearly, but she makes me wanna scream.

:grr:

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Not if it's Sharia rights.

[DCKit]

5. +1 Tell her you're converting and, as a religious minority, have even greater rights. nt

[ejpoeta]

2. that's where the problem is. her religious rights should NOT take precedence over another

person's rights. period. which religious rights should then? because there are a lot of religions out there. no. religion has no place in government, and government's job should be to protect us from each other.... so we can all have our own beliefs and not trample all over everyone else.

[Boswell]

3. so she would feel the same for a different religion then hers?

[demwing]

4. Did she clarify why her rights are more important?

Or is it just ANY religious rights that take precedence? If so, how does she work it out when two religions jockey for position, one set of beliefs against another? Whose rights win out?

[Angry Dragon]

6. Pray for her lost soul ...... she may need it one day

[Scuba]

7. Just ask her how that "praying for peace" thing is going.

[libodem]

8. Welcome to the underpinning

Of the Republic party.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Yet nobody really seems to challenge it in either party

The Church-State wall has had so many holes poked in it that it's no longer much of a wall at all. Fundies even denounce the idea that there IS such a wall. I've long since argued that passing laws based on the basis of one person/group's religious beliefs should be considered an infringement of the 1st Amendment rights of other people whose religious (or other) beliefs inform them otherwise.

[libodem]

14. Divine right of Kings

And the Churches hand in hand.

[gadjitfreek]

9. Holy crow! They believe in a fairy tale

and want preferential treatment because of it! I guess they're delusional in more ways than one.

[VoteProgressive]

10. My sister is the same way. I just ignore it.

[WatsonT]

11. She can feel that way

but legally she is wrong. Or at least should be wrong based on the law.

[HopeHoops]

13. That's when my "MOON THEM" instinct usually takes over.