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Nebraska Senate Nominee Says Religious Beliefs Justify Law Breaking
Posted: May 14, 2014
In a great example of "not really thinking things all the way through before you speak", Nebraska republican senate candidate Ben Sasse says, “government cannot force citizens to violate their religious beliefs under any circumstance"...including even if those beliefs violate federal law.
So under his reasoning, so-called honor killings could not be prosecuted if they were carried out for religious beliefs...employers could fire women simply for being women if their religion told them women were not to work...slavery would be a-okay.
I don't think he's ever studied any religion other than his own....
I think its a matter of semantics - here
[ In Reply To ..]The government doesn't force people to violate their religious beliefs, what it does is expect every citizen who CHOOSES to live here to abide by state/federal law.
That's am important distinction. He's twisting words here. Unless someone has a specific (documentable) instance of where the government FORCES citizens to violate their CHOSEN religious beliefs.
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