ACLU Sues Catholic Hospital For Refusing to Perform Transition Surgery

[BrometheusBob.]

Freedom of religion says the government can't force one religion upon the people or restrict their right to congregate. It was designed to clearly indicate that despite people being forced to say "One Nation Under God", that the government does not advocate Christianity or any other religion.

However, nothing stops a government from forcing churches to pay taxes by rewriting the exemption law. Or making tithes non-deductible as charity donations. Or charging property taxes on church buildings. Or banning congregations in improper zoning.

There is NO "separation of church and state" anywhere in any 'Murican law.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national...-state/240481/

I think it's worth nothing that 'One Nation Under God' is not something the founding fathers addressed directly because it was added to the pledge in 1954.

Not that this contradicts what you are saying, just that I find a lot of people don't know that God was not introduced into the pledge until very recently.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

That doesn't make much sense.

To be a proper comparison (and as such, proof of a contradiction) it would be forcing muslims to serve pork. I'm fine with doing just that. I.E. if you are a muslim, and you go work for a fast food joint that serves bacon, then you fucking serve bacon.

Making a muslim eat pork is comparable to making a christian have gay sex. Which no-one is trying to do.

So nah, there isn't a contradiction. There is a bunch of stupidity, but no contradiction.

Fair enough

[Teetotaler]

War catholic church

[John Barron]

this thing needs more than a transition surgery. hit every branch on the ugly as **** tree.

[Combat Talk Radio]

I think it's worth nothing that 'One Nation Under God' is not something the founding fathers addressed directly because it was added to the pledge in 1954.

Not that this contradicts what you are saying, just that I find a lot of people don't know that God was not introduced into the pledge until very recently.

Factually accurate. However, the earliest form of the US was talking about God and government interchangeably.

"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" - 1639 - very interesting first paragraphs.

For as much as it hath pleased Almighty God by the wise disposition of his divine providence so to order and dispose of things that we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connectecotte and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into Combination and Confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus which we now profess, as also, the discipline of the Churches, which according to the truth of the said Gospel is now practiced amongst us; as also in our civil affairs to be guided and governed according to such Laws, Rules, Orders and Decrees as shall be made, ordered, and decreed as followeth:

1. It is Ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that there shall be yearly two General Assemblies or Courts, the one the second Thursday in April, the other the second Thursday in September following; the first shall be called the Court of Election, wherein shall be yearly chosen from time to time, so many Magistrates and other public Officers as shall be found requisite: Whereof one to be chosen Governor for the year ensuing and until another be chosen, and no other Magistrate to be chosen for more than one year: provided always there be six chosen besides the Governor, which being chosen and sworn according to an Oath recorded for that purpose, shall have the power to administer justice according to the Laws here established, and for want thereof, according to the Rule of the Word of God; which choice shall be made by all that are admitted freemen and have taken the Oath of Fidelity, and do cohabit within this Jurisdiction having been admitted Inhabitants by the major part of the Town wherein they live or the major part of such as shall be then present.

All I'm saying is that the government has always been confused as to whether religion belongs synonymous with black letter law.

That's why LGBT became a thing - if the government were REALLY about separation of church and state, gay marriage wouldn't even qualify to be talked about.