Re: I really want to know
While many live their lives based, however loosely, on their beliefs, society and the government requires adherence to the laws only. There is a difference. <br /><br />and those laws must pass a constitutionality test, and they must withstand the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is not aimed at the rights of the majority, but rather the rights of the minority.<br /><br />The "majority" may well agree with your litany, but that fact is irrelevant, and does not give that majority any right to impose their views on the minority, however small that minority might be.<br /><br />Freedom is not necessarily easy or comfortable. It was never intended to be.
While many live their lives based, however loosely, on their beliefs, society and the government requires adherence to the laws only. There is a difference. <br /><br />and those laws must pass a constitutionality test, and they must withstand the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is not aimed at the rights of the majority, but rather the rights of the minority.<br /><br />The "majority" may well agree with your litany, but that fact is irrelevant, and does not give that majority any right to impose their views on the minority, however small that minority might be.<br /><br />Freedom is not necessarily easy or comfortable. It was never intended to be.
