The Christian Right Hates Everyone Else’s Freedom!

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http://tucsoncitizen.com/freethought-arizona/2011/10/14/the-christian-right-hates-everyone-elses-freedom/

The Christian Right Hates Everyone Else’s Freedom

I agree with Jason’s recent piece concerning the New York town Clerk who runs the risk of loosing her job over her refusal to grant marriage licenses to same sex-couples (If it had been couples of two different races she would have been fired and this would not be an issue). Anyway, I think you should be free to have whatever crazy beliefs you want, but if they interfere with you doing the work you are hired for, your boss has every right to dismiss you.

What really troubles me more is that a Conservative Christian Organization, from my state of Arizona is trying to turn this into a show case and get this woman a special exemption from having to do the job she was hired for, while still getting paid with her fellow New Yorkers’ tax money. I want to make it clear, that while this organization claims to be concerned about protecting our first amendment rights, at best they do so on a very selective basis and the overall goal of the majority of its founders and current leadership is to erode religious freedom and personal freedoms of all non-Christians. In plain English, they hate the personal freedoms of everyone who does not think like them. That is my problem with the religious right in general: They want the state to specifically promote their version of Christianity, force everyone else to conform to their religious prohibitions, and have the government to use our tax money to do this.

[Glorfindel]

1. Recommend

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2. THEIR idea of freedom is dependent on their ability to deny freedom to those individuals

and groups of individuals as their religion dictates (or as they think it dictates).

There is so much wrong with their thinking, and NONE of it is American.

[Kurmudgeon]

3. The right have usurped the word "Christian" for their own usage.

[msanthrope]

4. "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

H.L. Mencken

[Skip_In_Boulder]

5. Every Progressive Democrat Should Read

The best book ever published on this subject.

Escape from Freedom by Eric Fromm

The fact about conservatives, in spite of their protestations as to how much they love freedom, is that freedom terrifies them. It is more than they can deal with in that it introduces variables and nuances in the world around them which is more than they can cope with. What conservatives really want is a static world in which nothing ever changes. Of course this is insanity as the world is always, and has always been, in a constant state of change. To try and make it otherwise is like trying to get a river to flow backwards.

[Hydra]

6. Real freedom is scary

Even I think so, and I'm a looney lefty. It's much easier to have a society where walls are built, strictures are in place, and you always know what you're supposed to do.

I can totally see where they are coming from...but the fact that they've successfully packaged "slavery to a system" as "freedom" is at best, depressing.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

7. Yes, that is precisely the point!

Which Fromm lays out better than any other writer I have ever seen. To the point that if one actually grasp what he is saying it will make the hair on the back of your head stand up.