From: Adam Maas
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:29 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: CheekyGeek
>>
>> To those who have raised the "freedom of religion" issue with regard to a
>> group's preaching/proselytizing I would only add this: the concept and
>> exercise of Freedom of Religion is indeed a wonderful thing. However, for
>> those who take Christ's command to "Go therefore and preach" personally upon
>> themselves, their responsibility is no less in a country that has no such
>> constitutional protections. Like the apostles of Jesus' day that were
>> ordered by the Jewish Sanhedrin (High Court) to stop preaching, they would
>> answer: "We must obey God as ruler, rather than men." (Acts 5:29) A
>> Christian is under a scriptural obligation to obey the secular rulers in all
>> things,
>> EXCEPT those that would require them to break a command from a Higher
>> ?Authority.
>
> So their right to preach over-rides my right to follow my own beliefs?
>
In public they have the right to preach.
I do not object to their right to preach IN PUBLIC.
I object to having MY PRIVACY invaded and MY FREEDOM denied by religious
bullies.
Knock on my door and I'll politely tell you I'm not interested.
That's your cue to leave. You don't come to my house, get in my face and
create a disturbance.
Preach all you want IN PUBLIC, but when I walk away, you don't follow
me, you don't accost me, you don't come to my home and you DON'T PUT
YOUR FUCKIN' HANDS ON ME!
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