"We're all about religious freedom, but"

[MrsSmith]

spanone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-07-10 09:48 AM
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"We're all about religious freedom, but"
   
that 'but' negates the rest of the sentence....your either all about religious freedoms or your not.

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Media conservatives qualify support for "religious freedom" to attack mosque

Palin: "We're all about religious freedom, but" do it "down the road." Discussing her opposition to the proposed Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan, Fox News contributor Sarah Palin said:

PALIN: I just think this is just one of the worst decisions that ever has been made that will adversely effect New York City. And those innocent victims, those families of those who were killed in the 9-11 tragedy, it saddens me to think that people don't understand what building this mosque at such hallowed ground really represents. The mosque, fine, we are all about religious tolerance, that's what makes America beautiful and free.

We're all about religious freedom, but to provoke even more heartache and more division in our country, especially there in New York City, by choosing that specific location, to kind of mark territory with this mosque. I think that it's a knife in the collective heart of Americans who say, "Yeah, build the mosque, but down the road." Build it somewhere else where it's not such a painful reminder to those who certainly care about our national security, will never forget what happened on 9-11, and are committed to never allowing that to happen again.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201008050004

Bonhomme Richard  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-07-10 10:09 AM
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3. "down the road" How far Sarah? 100 feet, 100 yards...,
   
100 miles? or is it whatever you and your opportunistic racist friends decide?
Go to hell where you belong and I really do hope there is a God.

Muslim is a RACE?  Gee, and here I always thought it was a religion...a belief...kinda like atheism is a belief.  Maybe it's now "racist" to disagree with atheists, too??  

madmom  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-07-10 10:13 AM
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4. I think that might be the opening the dems or liberals need. While I'm all
   
about the 2nd amendment (right to bare arms) why can't we say the same thing when they start pushing for more chances for open carry? Sure you can carry your gun, but not in my neighborhood, or just do it down the road etc, etc. Give it right back to them. One amendment is NOT better than another.
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immoderate Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat Aug-07-10 10:19 AM
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6. Really goood point.
   
I wonder if they can grasp the analogy.

--imm

Because, of course, it's absolutely equal to build a monument to a specific religion in an area where proponents of that religion have murdered thousands...as compared to walking down a street with a metal object on my body.  


Well, for me, personally, I'm just glad that Christian churches never have any trouble building where they choose...

The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday rejected South Baton Rouge Presbyterian Church's request for a zoning permit to build a new church

By a vote of 3-2, the Coweta County Commissioners rejected the plans of All Souls Church of God in Christ to build a church of five acres on Buddy West Road...The church purchased the property a couple of years ago

It’s back to the drawing board for the Ardmore Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses after Ardmore city commissioners denied their request for a conditional use permit that would have enabled them to build a church

By a 4-3 decision, the Placer County Planning Commission has denied the use permit application of Bayside Covenant Church for a $25 million, six-building facility to be situated on 34 acres of land.  

But, of course, the minority should be far more free than the majority, right?  

[JohnnyReb]

Wonder if the DUmmies have ever read about the restrictions placed on Christians building/repairing places of worship in Muslim countries. "Do under others as you would have them do unto you".

Think I'll join the religion of "Kill'em all let God Sort Them Out".

[MrsSmith]

Wonder if the DUmmies have ever read about the restrictions placed on Christians building/repairing places of worship in Muslim countries. "Do under others as you would have them do unto you".

Think I'll join the religion of "Kill'em all let God Sort Them Out".

Even if they had, they'd excuse it as "a cultural issue," don't you know?   

[Chris_]

OmmmSweetOmmm  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Aug-07-10 07:10 AM
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1. They were Christian Missionaries and according to the teevee news, bibles were found.
   
They went into the lions den on their own accord.

[Ballygrl]

I'm all for Religious freedom too, unless that Religion wants to destroy my Country!

Oh and looky here:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/08/nine-years-later-church-at-ground-zero-still-not-rebuilt-but-mad-rush-to-build-islamic-supremacist-m.html

Nine years later, church at Ground Zero still not rebuilt, but mad rush to build Islamic supremacist mega-mosque

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church  stood in the shadow of the World Trade Center and was crushed under the rubble when the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001. Almost nine years later it has still not been rebuilt; the rebuilding project is mired in bureaucracy, with New York City officials being uncooperative and throwing up roadblock after roadblock.

The contrast is telling with the mad rush on the part of New York City officials to build the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero, sweeping aside calls to landmark the Burlington Coat Factory building, into which crashed the landing gear from one of the 9/11 planes, as a war memorial -- despite the fact that buildings of far lesser historical significance have been designated as landmarks in New York.

-Continued at the link-

[AllosaursRus]

I'm all for Religious freedom too, unless that Religion wants to destroy my Country!

Oh and looky here:

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[vesta111]

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Beck had an interesting progran that unfortunately I could not watch from beginning to end.


The question on Religious Freedom and the freedom to exercise those rights.

I have a good friend that married an Asian woman Muslim a so called 38 year old Virgin, so he swears, and he had to convert to her faith.     Not unusual practice 3 members in my family had to convert to Catholicism to get a Church wedding.

Far as I know he is still blond with blue eyes and has not converted from White to Asian yet.

The only faith I can think of that is racially based is the Black Muslims and not open to the Black Irish.   

[MrsSmith]

The only faith I can think of that is racially based is the Black Muslims and not open to the Black Irish.   

Jewish?

My kid once asked me if Jewish is a race, or a religion...and I had to say, "Both."