I'm sorry but freedom of religion needs to be severaly reevaluated and limited in this educated day and age.

@CopperCicada I respect a persons heartfelt beliefs but this is my sentimemt exactly. Freedom of religion is used amd treated as priviledge for religion and it's disgusting.

@SW-User exactly

@SW-User very well said.

@GJOFJ3 I sort of agree, but they need to have no more power than any other group and religion should be kept out of politics/law making, etc., 100%. Basically they need to live and let live. Their beliefs give them zero rights to deny others of their beliefs.

@SW-User right!

@AngelKrish Yep 😂

@DffrntDrmmr recent court decisions prove otherwise. Freedom of religion does not equal rule and privledge of religion.


Their tax exempt status also proves otherwise

@MethDozer The abortion decision is not necessarily one of religion. I'm not well-versed in its arguments one way or another, but it seems to me that the court removed a one-sided previous decision, not imposed one. States decisions and the debate continues, and politically closer to the citizens homes, too.

As for it not being a pro-religion decision, that it coincides is not the same as partiality to religion. I'm not religious, but I think a human life is in process starting at conception — that's indisputable, isn't it? — but I also think the government ruling over a woman's body and her decisions regarding it seems a violation, too. It's a debate I can side with either and find it fascinating a compromise seems wrong, too. So I have no stance other than confusion.

Anyway, my I point is its not really a decision the court made to favor the reigious.

@DffrntDrmmr bulllshit. It was decided by known memebers of the Christian right. The states trying to outlaw it are all Christian right ruled states. It most certainly is based on religion.

Same goes about marriage issues, sunday blue laws,sex acts, school lessons, etc.

@dancingtongue The hilariously sad part is they think they are the oppressed.

@1954zebedee Evangelicals are dismantling every but2 of progress this country has made towards it's stated goals.

@Ontheroad. One of the cornerstones of my religion is the 10 Commandments. Thou shall not commit murder is a religious law. Thou shall not steal is a religious law. Thou shall not commit perjury is a religious law. The reason the government can enforce these laws is not because they are enforcing Religious laws, but because these have been codified as a civil law. The same thing needs to happen with regards to abortion. Until congress codifies it as law, or if an amendment to the constitution makes it a constitutional right, it should be decided by the individual states. That’s what distinguishes a representative government from a Theocracy

@GJOFJ3 Again, I disagree. The right to choose between having or not having an abortion is a Liberty... pure and simple. Liberty is protected by the Constitution. It needs no codification. That right (that Liberty) was taken away by a majority of Justices on the SCOTUS. Their decision was based upon their religious beliefs. End of story.

@Ontheroad No, Roe was not decided on as an established liberty. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. The Court also held that the right to abortion is not absolute and must be balanced against the government's interests in protecting women's health and prenatal life. The Court resolved these competing interests by announcing a pregnancy trimester timetable to govern all abortion regulations in the United States.