Liberalism

..."The RFRA was passed, with three dissenting votes, and signed by Bill Clinton in 1993.





It was prompted by a Supreme Court decision upholding the penalization of Oregon Indians for using peyote, which they claimed was a religious rite. In passing RFRA, liberals and conservatives alike responded as Americans have often done when small groups have claimed laws infringed their religious beliefs: They put a higher priority to a few individuals' free exercise of religion than they did to widely supported laws of general application.

Thus Congress allowed for conscientious objectors to be exempt from military service in World War II, in which more than 400,000 U.S. service members died. Even in a national emergency, when lives were at stake, Americans were willing to accommodate religious beliefs that a large majority did not share.

Today's liberals take a different view. They want to make Hobby Lobby's owners pay for what they regard as the destruction of human life. They spent much time arguing the owners are mistaken (actually, they have a plausible scientific basis for their belief).

But the point about freedom of religion isn't that everyone has to agree. On the contrary: Almost no one agreed with the Oregon Indians' beliefs about peyote.

They just thought the larger society should not use compulsion to bar them from practicing their religion. Today's liberals seem comfortable with using the force of law to prevent people from doing so.

Or consider the Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, ruling that caregivers for disabled relatives paid with Medicaid funds are not state employees and thus cannot be forced into a public employee union.

Today's liberals did this in President Obama's Illinois to channel public money away from low-income caregivers and toward public employee unions that do so much to fund and support the Democratic Party. They seem unembarrassed by this crass political motive and indifferent to the plight of the needy.

Today's liberals seem bent on pushing people around, preventing them from speaking their minds and practicing their beliefs. It's not just the language that's changed."

www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/...coercion_123366.html

Modern liberalism is no longer about tolerance and harmony, but it is our way is the only way.

HEARTLESS wrote: Modern liberalism is no longer about tolerance and harmony, but it is our way is the only way.

Sounds suspiciously like today's conservatives... and yesterdays conservatives....

I can only speak for myself, but where have I proposed that BS? Liberals have run for public offices selling that line of $4It.

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/sunday-commen...-no-thought-zone.ece


"Last September, Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle, a student at Citrus Community College near Los Angeles, was collecting signatures on a petition asking the student government to condemn spying by the National Security Agency.
He left the school’s designated free-speech area to go to the student center. On his way there, he saw a likely prospect to join his cause: a student wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirt. He stopped the student, and they began talking about the petition. Then an administrator came out of a nearby building, informed them their discussion was forbidden outside the speech zone, and warned Sinapi-Riddle he could be ejected from campus for violating the speech-zone rule.
Sinapi-Riddle has now sued Citrus College, a state institution, for violating his First Amendment rights by, among other things, demanding that “expressive activities” be confined to the 1.34 percent of campus designated as a free-speech area. Perhaps the most outrageous part of his experience is how common it is. The vague bans on offensive language and other politically correct measures that most people think of when they imagine college speech codes are increasingly being joined by quarantine policies that restrict all student speech, regardless of its content."...

I am not a religious man but I really think the modern liberal expects you to only practice your faith one hour a week on Sunday.