Manfromnevad,
Thanks so much for the welcome. I agree with the premise of your comments. However, an arbitrary agreement that two parties will not force their moral codes upon another sounds nice but is not at all realistic.
For instance, Europe for many years led the world in ?Political Correctness?. As a result society was reformed on the basis of you?re below comments. As you well know, places like Amsterdam became so ?free? that drugs and prostitution were made legal. Many drug addicts, sodomites etc? flocked to these European countries. Along with the fore mentioned came individuals that practiced their Islamic faith. A sincere young Muslim that follows the clear and strict teachings of the Koran is obligated to use violence (left up to the individuals judgment without the balance of accountability civil governments operate under) when confronted by certain behaviors and circumstances. Naturally, when sodomites began to be regularly beaten in the streets of these European countries, the sodomites demanded that authorities stop these occurrences.
Now consider the sodomites have screamed in all of our ears for decades that we do not have a right to force our moral beliefs on them regarding their (as I view it) abhorrent behavior. We (US and Europe) have gone along with the demands of the sodomite communities. If you will remember, the sodomite cry was ?what we do in the privacy of our homes is our business?. Now the cry is much different. The cry has come, to some states in our Union, demanding that this behavior be normalized in the eyes of our school children. The sodomite doctrine is being forced upon children against the wishes of the parents.
As far as Europe is concerned, PC ushered all kinds of thoughts and ideologies. The young committed Muslim is obligated (from their interpretation of the Koran) to beat and kill these sodomites. It is their moral obligation. The sodomites hold a moral belief that violence against sodomites is wrong. I agree with the sodomites that no individual has a right to take it upon himself to assault another individual unless said assault is precipitated by force or threat of force. However, the Muslim youth have a moral conviction that they should respond to perversion with violence.
Does the sodomite community have a right to force their moral code (no assaults on sodomites) on these young Muslims? I would answer, ?absolutely not!? simply because it is blatant hypocrisy and violates their own code of behavior. If the sodomites are truly committed to the principle in your comments, I would think that they would place themselves on the altar of Political Correctness and Tolerance; and become martyrs for their conviction. Many millions of the Christian faith have done exactly such.
The freedom you speak of is only found within the borders and boundaries clearly marked out by our Founding Fathers. They were enlightened by the Creator (per their confession) to build our society with Biblical Law being the foundation and basis of said.
Whether or not you agree with the above, I am sure you would agree that you are personally granted certain rights and protections under the US Constitution. Those rights however demand compliance on your part as a condition of freedoms granted.
I was once sharing with some individuals about a life-change I experienced; an older biker kept interrupting me professing his experience with the ?great spirit?. I asked him to tell me about this ?great spirit?. He explained that the great spirit teaches us to love everyone. You and I both know that when a hippie says ?love? he means sex without the restraints of obligation. I got pissed off. My fiend was surprised to see me lose my temper and began to drag me away from the situation. On my way out I mentioned to the hippie (I used to be one) that I know what his type of love means. It means sex with no moral obligations. The problem with that is when one of these so-called disciples of ?love? gets in a situation whereby they have produced the fruit of their ?free love? (a baby), they completely disregard the rights of the child they produced and hire a hit man (commonly known as an abortionist) to murder the little person in the womb.
Does that sound like ?love? to you?
Does the pedophile have right to yours or my child, to satisfy his perverted desires? He could utilizing the reasoning ?I'll let you and others live your lives the way you wish, and you'll let others lead THEIR lives the way THEY wish, we'll all get along just fine? Make no mistake in the pedophiles mind, he is not harming you or your child; which is the prerequisite of your position.
Does the rapist have a right to accost women to satisfy his drive for violence? (I would not be so easy to get along with if I knew that someone had committed such an act.)
I am sure you would answer, ?no?. So where do we draw the line? We do not draw the line; it has already been done many thousands of years ago. We just need to stop dancing on the line.
I personally however do not possess the where-with-all to demand compliance from anybody. I will say however, for the misinformed, that if their rights mean a child or weaker person is taken advantage of; we are obligated to bring wrath on the individual that abuses the above.
