A letter from Paul:
My religion believes in real ‘pro life’. We do not know when sub-dividing cells become human life but we do believe that cellular division at conception is NOT yet a ‘human life’ that merits legal protections. As such, our religious freedom has been trampled on by the fake ‘pro-lifers’ that mandated the government could NOT pay for abortions. The fake religion has trampled on the rights of our true religion using the power of the state. Since we know that 18 year olds are certainly human we also had our rights trampled by the state when we had to pay for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with our tax dollars. We were forced by the state to sin against our pro-life values by paying for wars that killed our children. We also believe that criminals are human beings and capital punishment is murder by the state. Again, our tax dollars are spent on the much more expensive undertaking of the jurisprudence of capital punishment. We also believe that the human being that is alive can decide to end their life. The state will not allow euthanasia and has once again forced itself on us. The latest controversy about contraception is not really about religious freedom; it is about one arrogant religion legislating with the power the state what other religions must do.
Paul
I guess what we need to think about from Paul’s letter is that one religion’s ‘religious freedom’ may be another religion’s state oppression of religious freedom. I suppose there is a valid reason for the separation of church and state as is abundantly clear from history.