re: #17 Simply Sarah

I am fucking sick and tired of “religious freedom”, because it never really means that. All it ever means is “religious freedom for us to be as bigoted and backwards as we want to be”. Any other religion that doesn’t agree with them? Well, those don’t count.

When did religious freedom turn into a veto over any and all policy? When it’s not contraception, it’s “Not banning abortions” or “Not locking up gays” or “Letting those Muslims build mosques” that violate “religious freedom”.

Well, if this is what religious freedom means, then you know what? Count me out. Put me in the camp of wanting to oppress the poor majority Christians, since apparently they deserve it.

The problem is their “religious freedom” gets in way of others freedom. Take gay marriage. Your church should have the freedom not to bless gay marriages if you so choose but your church’s views about gay marriage shouldn’t be state policy because you feel your church is superior to the rest. And honestly no one really ever talks about the houses of worship that have and will bless gay marriages but that’s another story.