The other day, I pulled out my copy of the Constitution of the United States of America, along with the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, because I thought maybe I was confused on what my rights are as an “American citizen.”
And the reason I did this is I’m reading an article on the various people who are and were being persecuted in this country on their religious beliefs. And it makes no difference if you’re atheist, Christian, Islamist or Jewish. Someone is going to dislike what you believe in.
The part that caught my attention was the remarks made by a justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. He bluntly stated that people “now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives.” That compromise the justice stated was “the price of citizenship” in America. Really?!
I hate to say this, but I found his words to be very offensive. Since when has the judicial system become God? And what right do judges and lawyers have to say what we should or shouldn’t believe? You’ve got to wonder what foreign country did he get his law degree in and who gave him the right to judge over man’s beliefs.
Are we becoming a socialist country where the government tells us what we can and can’t believe in? And what happened to our civil rights?