No.
All right have limits.
I have a right to speak freely. But that doesn’t give me the right to lie about you. To threaten you. To incite people to do violence with my words. Or reveal the country’s secrets, etc....
Your right to freely practice your religion does not give you the right to use the government as the enforcement arm of your beliefs (First Amendment).
It doesn’t give you the right to use your beliefs as a hammer to beat on others.
It doesn’t give you the right to use your beliefs to interfere with My right to practice MY religion within MY life.
Or my choice to live without ANY religious beliefs.
Liberty is not LICENSE. “Freedom” that has no limits isn’t Liberty its ANARCHY. Which turns into Authoritarianism as the Strong will inevitably dominate the weak and the Many the Few under those conditions.
Or as Ken Wilber says, “If you try to have democracy without protection for minority rights, THE [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] TAKE OVER.” Both literally, and figuratively.
And sadly, many Christian fundamentalists here in the US think and behave like religious [url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url].
Liberty only exists we’re there is a healthy balance of Individual Rights And RESPONSIBILITIES.
But human nature always wants the one and not the other. Because responsibility feels like work.
Cause it is.....
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