seems like such an obviously correct decision to overturn the previous overreach - it should never have been necessary to go to the supreme court but happened because the rights of the religious were being ignored.. as the fundamental level, no one should be able to compel you to work for them or to provide services that go against your beliefs, and certainly not have the government be able to force you to comply.. if this was allowed there would be so many unreconcilable situations that would clog up courts over nonsense.. i also have little patience for these activists that intentionally look to be offended.
it really doesn't do their cause any good to go round looking to make trouble for people.
it's also misguided because it ends up strengthening religious rights over effectively stupid issues.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html.
What if the couple was black? And, the baker was a white supremacist who sincerely believes that the Bible condemns the black race (for all that stuff with Noah's son Ham).
Let them do it. I would love for those people to advertise themselves.
I believe this case was about religious freedom, but to me there is a better argument to be made regarding private property rights.
tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.
yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.
his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?
@humbled:
I think it is far more serious than that. For example, if we consider Christianity - there are countless versions of Christianity, and each sect has its disagreements on just about everything you can think of - but not everything. Whether you are a Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian, or even JW, there are some core fundamental beliefs. For example, the doctrine of any of the religions I listed would agree that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and was raised from the dead. This is a fundamental Christian statement. All Christians agree with it.
Likewise, for Islam, it is fundamental that Mohammad was the excellent example of conduct. It is fundamental to Islam to be political as well as religious.
I am all for those Muslims seeking to separate mosque and state. However, this isn’t about some theological disagreement (like whether there should be icons or even if the Trinity is real), this is a fundamental change.
Islam doesn’t need the equivalent of a Christian reformation. It needs a new leader. It needs an equivalent of a Jesus to come around and invalidate chunks of the current Quran. But even if that did occur, they would be Muslims any longer, rather some new religion. The world would be better for it, but there would be a bunch of Muslims that reject it, just as the Jews reject Jesus.
tommie robinson has reported often about what he sees as the demise of british society by the imposition of 'sharia' norms.. https://www.infowars.com/update-tommy-robinson-gets-13-months-for-livestreaming-outside-courthouse/?utm_source=nightly+newsletter&utm_campaign=9e3ceb30f6-email_campaign_2018_05_25_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e12661a83c-9e3ceb30f6-38680565.
yesterday he was jailed for 13 months for reporting outside a court in the uk.
his was a non violent offence.. what no community service?
Mohammad is the excellent example of conduct, perfect in every way. Praise be to Allah to give us his magnificent example. Anything he did, we should imitate. Anything he rebuked, we should likewise rebuke. This is settled doctrine, and all Muslim schools of thought, although having some differences, agree on this point without exception.
The above is the position of Islam. Period. Whether a Muslim agrees or not is irrelevant. The only good Muslim is a bad Muslim.
Or just make more with a drill press from Sears....
colwell, a trinitarian methodist, was apparently affected by various translators of his time and before, that were translating john 1:1 differently from the norm: "the word was god.
" you had moffatt’s version saying "the word was divine" (1922); a french bible, "a divine being" (1928); belsham, "a god" (1808); benjamin wilson: "a god" (1864); robert young: "a god" in his commentary of 1985. colwell likely knew that various french and german bibles were being published challenging the traditional rendering "god" of john 1:1 as well.. so he set out to prove them wrong.
he began by formulating a "rule" regarding predicate nouns and the greek article, whether they occurred after or before the verb.
it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
The GOP has shown just what kind of party they really are.
The elected someone JUST LIKE THEM.
A non-criminal?
it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
Not going to see Soylo - XD just got the pun. Like it.
Soylo, a Soy Wars Story.
it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
Social Justice warriors ruin everything they touch. SJWs are to society as cancer is to the body.
SJWs have gotten their hands on Star Wars.
Star Wars is dead. Not going to see Soylo.
it seems like mobilizing after the election, which seems pointless.
i keep hearing demands for equal rights but don't understand what rights they are missing exactly.. normally a march is to show the support (and potential votes) for a cause, but ... votes for what?
... and the election happened already.. is anyone else confused?
i am interested in the approach this forum takes to money.
apart from sex, (which i am quite relaxed about) it seems to me that wealth is the surest divider between those who are moral, and those who are not.. it seems jesus thought so, also.
luke 16:19-31 kjv describes well enough his dusty attitude to the rich who do not succour the poor.. and this world has many poor: so many, it might seem that we can do nothing about it, and twist his words; 'the poor ye shall have always with you, but me, ye shall not have always.
