ACLU

[Guest guest]

wrote:

> I believe that everyone ought to be allowed their own values and

> belief systems without persecution from others...when they are in

> their own homes. When people circulate in a society that encompasses >

> many different value systems, then there needs to be a baseline

> moral and ethical code that allows people to have a REASONABLE

> degree of freedom without any negative effects on others.

Thus... no public freedom of individual conscience, in order to preserve

" freedom " ? , what you have written here is among the most

astonishingly bald-faced reunciations of the Bill of Rights, the idea of

civil freedom, AND the religious concept of essential human freedom to seek

or reject God and his ways, that I have ever seen. Your concept of society

is not only anti-social, but anti-religious, and grossly arrogant in the

implication that you or any other human being posesses and has the right to

judge others' practice of the correct " baseline moral and ethical code " to

which all must hew. I'm assuming here that you are an atheist with a grossly

inflated sense of his own goodness, because NO faithful religious believer

would ever seek to put himself in God's place in the way you're proposing,

and to place himself as an intermediary between individual conscience and

God, or even setting government in God's place as the one responsible to

" lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. " I'm a Christian,

and to those of us who are religious, what you are suggesting is profoundly

disturbing and wrong. And whether one is religious or not, what you are

proposing is totalitarian and goes far beyond any reasonable interest of

republican civil government.

God bless the ACLU for standing up for human freedom against people who

think like you, !