Our Unalienable Rights Include Freedom of, and from, Religion

[trotsky]

https://msmagazine.com/2019/07/30/our-unalienable-rights-include-freedom-of-and-from-religion/

...Natural law, supposedly, derives from objective moral laws that arise from the “universal nature of human beings,” which is created by God. Natural rights are those related rights that are inherent in human nature and given by God—which means that this new Commission rests on the assumption that the framework of international human rights that has evolved over the past few decades exceeds natural law and natural rights.

By narrowing rights to natural law and natural rights, the Commission can remake the official view of human rights into a contracted reflection of a particular conservative religious stance. Within a framework of natural law as envisioned by the Commission, gay sex, abortion and contraception may be morally wrong; thus, no right to them can exist. Socio-economic rights may not exist either, nor the right to request asylum. The Commission’s findings may also decrease the likelihood of the U.S. speaking out on LGBTQ human rights abuses, such as we’re seeing in Poland, around the world.

...A pluralistic secular democracy cannot impose old standards of homogeneity—not that the U.S. was ever homogenous, nor was it ever a Christian nation. Religious freedom has always meant that we have to live together and respect one another within a context of a shared value of public spirit.

...Seeking a return to natural law and natural rights, as defined by conservative Christians, is not an act of supporting religious liberty; rather, it is the opposite. It is an attempt to impose the belief system of a narrow faction of one religion on a pluralistic U.S. public and the rest of the world. This Commission is a dangerous enterprise that threatens human rights progress and perverts the notion of religious liberty for political gain.

"Natural law" is old, putrid, Catholic theology and no human being should be forced to abide by it.

[Raster]

1. Hallelujah!

Freedom of religion also means freedom FROM religion.

[Cartoonist]

2. Supernatural Rights

Created by God
Given by God

Bias from the word Go

[Major Nikon]

3. To the zealots, religious freedom means the freedom to discriminate on the basis of religion

It's the embodiment of the paradox of tolerance Karl Popper warned us about.

[guillaumeb]

4. In theory, the US Constitution guarantees this.

In theory.

[trotsky]

5. And religion threatens it.

Good thing we have the US Constitution.

[Major Nikon]

7. Nah, that's just "human nature"

Religion can’t be blamed for that even though religion builds coalitions, lobbies directly, and finances the efforts to insure that happens.

Now if you wanna talk about something benevolent, then we can thank religion for that whether or not it had anything to do with it.

Funny how that works.

[guillaumeb]

8. "Religion" does not threaten anything.

People do,

[trotsky]

9. People who have religion do.

They're the ones who don't want us to have freedom FROM religion.

Do try and keep up.

I am well aware you believe that religion is never, EVER responsible for motivating anyone to do anything bad. You've made that perfectly clear. You are, of course, united in that belief with some of the worst theists the planet has seen, but you are welcome to believe it anyway.

[guillaumeb]

10. Some theists are intolerant.

Do you really think that theists are, or should be, immune to a human behavioral characteristic?

As to your last attempt at misframing, it fails to convince here.

[trotsky]

11. Are there ANY passages in ANY holy books that don't teach tolerance?

There's your answer. The misframing is ALL YOURS, as usual.

[Act_of_Reparation]

12. Ok, stop.

Think about what you just said.

I mean, really think about it.

[MineralMan]

6. And the Republicans want to take it away.

Vote for Democrats.