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December 29, 2011
Catholics claim regulations on charities threaten religious freedom
The catholic church and the christian fundamentalists will claim that *anything* threatening their beliefs, dogma or choices of hatreds violates and or threatens their religious freedom. Religious freedom to them applies ONLY to their religion - not to anyone else's.
It's always refreshing to me to see them equate bigotry and hatred with their religious freedom. Religions have tried to whitewash their involvement in upholding the hegemonic majority over past civil rights struggles, and I seriously hope that in the future we will be able to present all of these cases of bigotry against them when they try to do it again.
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The catholic church and the christian fundamentalists will claim that *anything* threatening their beliefs, dogma or choices of hatreds violates and or threatens their religious freedom.
ReplyDeleteReligious freedom to them applies ONLY to their religion - not to anyone else's.
It's always refreshing to me to see them equate bigotry and hatred with their religious freedom. Religions have tried to whitewash their involvement in upholding the hegemonic majority over past civil rights struggles, and I seriously hope that in the future we will be able to present all of these cases of bigotry against them when they try to do it again.
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