Bagger_Vance
September 17th 2005, 11:06 PM
Is there any greater test for how free a nation is than in what the citizenry can do to their own body and with other consenting adults? What we have is a war between those that believe in liberty and those that frankly cherish their faith over a person's liberty. The fact is that religious people have never been proponents of freedom. No theocracy can value liberty because religion demands that it's way of thinking is the only "acceptable" way. If you think the government should impose nationally on your fellow citizens that which you value then you are not a supporter of liberty. The right to privacy is the right to do with your body and with other consenting adults that which you wish so long as your actions do not deprive anyone else of their liberty.
Issues of legalizing drugs, Abortion, the right to die, gay marriage, all come down to whether you value personal liberty or not.
Can anyone come up with a argument where Homosexuality infringes upon their rights? It is only a matter of taste. If you were interested in freedom you would look at the issue of gay marriage and see that it does nothing to stop your marriage or sexual preference and it is b/w two consenting adults therefore since you have nothing vested in it then you have no say in it.
Abortion is an issue of eminent domain where religious people believe that because their belief can overrule the rights of a woman over her own body. Nevermind that their belief isn't established as law and try to forget that they are not volunteering to carry, take care of, or otherwise maintain the woman that they are demanding to bow to their personal belief.
If there is one issue though that shows how religion loathes liberty it is in the right to die issue. Somehow a person that is dying of a terminal illness that is racking them with pain can be forced to suffer because another person that is in perfect health says they have to. Only someone blinded by the notion that they have the absolute truth would deem to tell someone that God wants them to live while they are rotting from cancer that God supposedly could stop if he existed. The issue at hand is that people who have no vested interest in the matter are attempting to tell others what they can or cannot do to themselves. We see this in drugs as well. Somehow it is right to throw people in prison for smoking a joint as if that joint is robbing people of their rights or liberty.
In all of the above issues the people most intent to restrict a person's sovereignty over themselves are the people with no stake in the argument. Their personal rights are not in jeopardy however they wish to restrict others on the bounds that they "know" what's best for everyone. Theists are huge proponents of a Big Brother state of fascist government control so long as it is their kind of government.
Issues of legalizing drugs, Abortion, the right to die, gay marriage, all come down to whether you value personal liberty or not.
Can anyone come up with a argument where Homosexuality infringes upon their rights? It is only a matter of taste. If you were interested in freedom you would look at the issue of gay marriage and see that it does nothing to stop your marriage or sexual preference and it is b/w two consenting adults therefore since you have nothing vested in it then you have no say in it.
Abortion is an issue of eminent domain where religious people believe that because their belief can overrule the rights of a woman over her own body. Nevermind that their belief isn't established as law and try to forget that they are not volunteering to carry, take care of, or otherwise maintain the woman that they are demanding to bow to their personal belief.
If there is one issue though that shows how religion loathes liberty it is in the right to die issue. Somehow a person that is dying of a terminal illness that is racking them with pain can be forced to suffer because another person that is in perfect health says they have to. Only someone blinded by the notion that they have the absolute truth would deem to tell someone that God wants them to live while they are rotting from cancer that God supposedly could stop if he existed. The issue at hand is that people who have no vested interest in the matter are attempting to tell others what they can or cannot do to themselves. We see this in drugs as well. Somehow it is right to throw people in prison for smoking a joint as if that joint is robbing people of their rights or liberty.
In all of the above issues the people most intent to restrict a person's sovereignty over themselves are the people with no stake in the argument. Their personal rights are not in jeopardy however they wish to restrict others on the bounds that they "know" what's best for everyone. Theists are huge proponents of a Big Brother state of fascist government control so long as it is their kind of government.