8 Reasons Conservative Christians Are Concerned About Their Own Religious Freedom in the Obama Era
While conservative Christians have long fought for the religious freedom of religious minorities, they have become increasingly concerned about their own religious freedom in recent years. Here are 8 reasons that is happening.
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4. Reactions to RFRA
The notion that those with religious objections to SSM should not be given religious freedom can also be seen in last week's reactions to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
RFRA was strongly supported by both liberals and conservatives in the 1990's when it was first passed at the federal level in reaction to members of the Native American Church who were punished after they used peyote, an hallucinogenic drug, as part of a religious worship service. After realizing that RFRA also protects conservative Christians, not just religious minorities, liberals have begun opposing it.
Most of the media coverage last week about RFRA has failed to inform the public of why the law is important. Worse still, the media has misinformed about what the law actually does.
One of the arguments liberal news sites used in announcing its opposition was that certain conservative Christians supported the law. If conservative Christians are for it, it must be a bad law, appears to be the reasoning.
"While conservative Christians have long fought for the religious freedom of religious minorities"
And the cartoon, priceless!
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They're criticizing their politicians for not being homophobic enough?
the Westboro Baptist Church people sure blame soldier's deaths on the acceptance of gay citizens as equals....
Their signs are quite horrendous and their hatred quite open....the image below was at a funeral for a service member killed in the Middle East...
If this is what religion brings to the table I think I'd rather starve thank you very much.
Some people claim that christians need god's laws to stop them from raping and murdering women and children.
I shudder to think what these people would do if they lost their faith.
Imo, any doctrine that can be used to promote hatred as well as love cancels itself out.
Haven't seen you around these here parts before, stranger.
Howdy! 