FWITFA: Americans' religious liberties are under attack - or at least that's what some conservatives say.

I don't think NPR is implying any attack at all.

That's a troll someone can take pride in.

The latest fundie teabagging right-wing news outlet to wonder if Obama is waging a war on religion is...NPR? That's it, cut the funding

You got part of it right Subby

If by "waging a war on religion" folks mean "the gub'ment isn't promoting mine and mine alone" then yeah, I suppose it is. And is mandated to do so by the 1st Amendment...

Which is sort of the point. No one faith gets special treatment. Not Judaism. Not Christianity. Not Islam. Not Scientology. Some folks would like that, because they're short sighted idiots who don't understand that in the future that state support of one faith can shift and change, and the same sorts of measures could be used against them when the population shifts and changes, which is sort of why we put that proviso into the Constitution in the first place.

hubiestubert: Not Scientology. Some folks would like that,

I'd be in favor of this. You know, for the lulz.

Has Obama Waged A War On Religion?

No.

All right, that was easy. Shall we?

Come on admins. Your smarter than this. You should know better than to greenlight headlines like this garbage.

I like how equal civil rights is an attack in their religion. Maybe that should tell you something about your religion.

SilentStrider: Come on admins. Your smarter than this. You should know better than to greenlight headlines like this garbage.

Garbage is pretty much the standard for greenlights.

So we're cutting NPR's one trillian dollar budget because zomg think of the savings.

shivashakti: The answer is no. Obama is not "waging a war on religion".

This is true. You need Congresses approval to declare a war.

This is more of a "police action" on religion.

"If you don't want to serve the public, don't open a business saying you will serve the public."

This.

Best part of that article

"We don't have a constitutional right to a contract, but we do have a constitutional right not to be discriminated against because we're following our own convictions," he says.

Unless of course you're the ghey.

GAT_00: Garbage is pretty much the standard for greenlights.

I'm here to say that that's not always the case.

Granted, this headline is worthy of massive downvoting, but garbage is NOT always the standard for greenlights.

I wish there was a war on religion in this country. Not the standard "help, I'm being persecuted because someone doesn't agree with me" that people love to claim is an attack on their faith. No, I'm talking a true, concerted effort to move this country beyond our current habit of taking the words of revamped ancient mythologies as fact, while doubting empirical data and foregoing critical thinking.

/Imagine no religion.

SilentStrider: Come on admins. Your smarter than this. You should know better than to greenlight headlines like this garbage.

I beg your pardon. Fark.com headlines are SUPPOSED to be troll headlines.
Good day to you, Sir.

TV's Vinnie: You know what? I really wish there was an all-out, balls-out, bona-fide war on religion.

If I heard that fat pig John Hagee was rounded up and sent off to a FEMA Happy Camp, I'd actually pitch in to pay for the Zyklon B.

I'd even ask if I could pay a little more to have the privilege of pitching the sh*t down the ventilation hole and watch the fat fugger gasp his last through a window.


How tolerant of you.

TV's Vinnie: You know what? I really wish there was an all-out, balls-out, bona-fide war on religion.

If I heard that fat pig John Hagee was rounded up and sent off to a FEMA Happy Camp, I'd actually pitch in to pay for the Zyklon B.

I'd even ask if I could pay a little more to have the privilege of pitching the sh*t down the ventilation hole and watch the fat fugger gasp his last through a window.

I think it would be more fun to round them all up and then treat them with the kind of Christian charity Jesus would approve of until their heads asplode.

Arkanaut: There are plenty of instances where the public interest trumps religious freedom. For example if you're one of those people that believes in prayer healing to the exclusion of other medical care, child protective services is allowed to put a sick child into foster care so that he or she can get necessary medical care*. Or, to take a more extreme example, you can't conduct human sacrifice in the name of religious freedom.

*this is usually a state function though.


So is human sacrifice in the name of religious freedom.

Arkanaut: Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' new Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, believes the First Amendment is clear: The government cannot make people choose between obeying the law and following their faith.

Bullshiat. There are plenty of instances where the public interest trumps religious freedom. For example ...

Mormans with polygamy...

Utah was forced to abandon polygamy as a condition of being admitted into the Union.

Various religions that practice child marriage are forbidden from doing so by law.

There's plenty of precedent for the government restricting SOME religious "rights". However, I would like to propose a compromise. Any religious entity that wants to deny access to contraceptives/sterilization/abortion can absolutely do so. And they forfeit any tax-exempt status they previously enjoyed. Then their tax receipts are earmarked to provide reproductive health care for any employee/student who desires it.

Easy peasy.