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Originally Posted by mdb23
I'm not willing to empower the govt to take away the freedom of religion, one of our founding principles for which we fought a revolution, and to issue "loyalty tests" to determine what citizens are allowed to stay. A rather illogical and dangerous precedent to set.
Those who would sacrifice their liberty for security deserve neither.
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The key to all this as I see it is that this country's strength came from the fact that no one specified that any religion be followed but rather that all who came here were welcome as long as they became assimilated into the culture, values upon which this country was founded-which happened to be judeo-christain (neither capitalized on purpose so as not to offend anyone or to offend all equally
) and English Law to mention two. What has happened with all the happy little groups-be they religious oriented or hypenated AmeriKans- is that they fail to accept the basic tenets and values that defines who we once were, and who all true Americans are today.
They instead see their values/culture/beliefs/mores/tenets as overridding those for which this nation stands and are willing to get in my face to have me bend to their will. It is time to get out a large cuisinart and dump what has become a stew and run this nation through on high, breaking up the chunks and returning it back to the melting pot it once was. In the process, those little irritants and husks that rise to the top like the froth on a head of Wiezenbier and refuse to disolve into the mix should be scraped away and discarded.