Look, I'm a liberal, and yea, I pretty much do hate religion, but does the government have the right to tell parents what is best for their kids? Absolutely not. And even though I can agree with you alot of the time opebo, calling religious parents tyranical (sp?) is going a little far. Just as you and me think prevention of religion in our houses would be best, the conserative crowd probably feels just as strongly if not more that Christian or relgious values are essential in life. Do I like it? No, but if you are going to fight for individual freedom, like any true liberal does, you also have to remember you're fighting for the freedoms of everybody, not just those that agree with you. We both want government off ours backs and stop telling us what's best. If we stopped parents from doing things we don't like, aren't we just as bad? Gotta take the good with the bad man.
I was only thinking of the children - the poor, defenseless children at the mercy of religious parents, indoctrinating them into their sick cults. I don't know that individual rights and freedoms necessarily extend to the right to own/abuse your child. Obviously at some point we must extend individual rights and freedoms to that child, at the expense of tyrannical parental power.
I can definetely see what you're saying, but I think law has to be limited to physical harm. I to THINK religion can be a form of mental harm and destructive mind conditioning, but a another group can think Howard Stern is harming people for expressing his free speech. Should he be arrested?
I understand your problems with Christianity, I have them to, but as a right now, they're really not hurting anybody. Yea, the gays are still 2nd-class citizens thanks to them, but that can and will be gone with time. Until there's another Crusade, which I doubt, I think you should just cool it with the Christians for now. It's they're leaders and preachers like Falwell that should feel the brunt of that anger.
