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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
A question, since when does the majority have to change to suit a minority? The "one nation under God" stuff is typically one parent of out of hundreds, why should everyone change to suit the agenda of one? PC has gone way too far in our country.
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I've got a labor relations disaster brewing so I apologize for posting without even reading all the other posts, but this quote is another perfect illustration of my point here. One parent out of hundreds? Okay. Perhaps you think that the majority shoudl rule. Perhaps you think that if 99 parents oppose one, then the one parent needs to toe the mark. This is a problem. This is a situation where somebody looses freedom because they are outnumbered 99 to 1. If 60% of the country is Christian and decides that this should be the national religion, then are we still a country with "freedom" as a core value? The answer is obviously "no."
And yes, I realize that the issue described above is whether a child is permitted to pray in school and that cowtowing to the 1 parent potentially reduces the freedom of the 99. That is a detail not lost on me, but it is a detail nonetheless. Here, I hope to discuss underlying principle. In actual fact, for example, there are no children in this country who are denied the opportunity to pray in school. The bigger question is whether a prayer is lead by the teacher and if so, what prayer.
Let's not get sidetracked by the details. There are people in this country who are comfortable in limiting the freedoms of others and there are those who are not. Conservatives (at least a very vocal portion of conservatives) would like to restrict Americans' freedom so they are not free to engage in immorality. Liberals oppose these bits of legislation. Liberals support a broader degree of freedom than conservatives.