I wrote this in response to a progressive friend of mines opposing view concerning prohibiting prayer ... Johnny but in so doing in saying the word Allowed your already crossing the line of a persons 1st amendments rights.... who are you or I to decide to Allow or Disallow the freedom of anothers personal religious freedom ..... The answer is self evident in the term Congress shall make no law ....respecting religion ....or free expression of it ...being religion ...The minute I try to dictate or allow or disallow that freedom from others cause I dont like the way you pray I just in fact violated the thing I am trying to uphold .. No where does it say you can do that and our own self evident knowledge of right and wrong should whisper that to us but the facts are ever since the Warren court the opposite has been held true and the fact that the ACLU and others can ban any prayer in public is in fact a complete violation of both the spirit and letter of the law of our most basic human right the freedom of expression ...again we hold these truths to be self evident that the minute I restrict or prohibit the free expression of religion, of which prayer is the most basic form of it we have violated the truth and crossed into no mans land where bad is good and wrong is right and day is night the law expressly says that we are never to in any form stop anyones right to pray anywhere (remember all Law is basically legislated with public intercourse or discourse in mind and therefore cant be only a private interpretation to mean ones secret prayer but conversely it means public expression any where that is a public institution or otherwise the public institution becomes the secular God or religion you are trying to restrict by that interpretation for religion is more than belief its is rules and moreys that dictate public and private behavior and if I restrict your freedom of prayer then I am establishing a state religion of secularism which is the opposite of what the constitution is about in first place) for in so doing we are in fact doing evil thinking we are doing good ... It never says you can stop prayer it simply says you cant stop it its plain for anyone to read ... He that has eyes to read or ears to hear or a heart to feel can only see it as it states AMENDMENT I 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. Under your interpretation the same law could be used by others to interpret free speech to mean if I dont agree with you politically I can disallow your speech and of course we dont do that seeing it would destroy basic freedom so why do we think we can do just the opposite with religion and not think we offend both God and man and destroy our basic freedom in the process .... There was a reason the two basic truths of free exercise of religion and the free exercise of speech are bundled together in the same of amendment which happens to be the first and the most powerful that we should obey we should be concerned deeply that weve restricted it in such a completely opposite matter
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:50:10 +0000
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