Freedom of Religion is not just about being able to open a place of worship. It's also about:

1) being able to leave a religion without your life being threatened.

2) not having to change your life simply because someone from a certain religion wants you to.

3) Many people don't like religion, and they need protection from all people that do like religion.

Each and every damn day in this country, we fail miserably at these 3 things. Why is it that the religious freedom of this one group (who have a ton of mosques on this island already) is so paramount, and we don't care about other people's religious freedom at all? There are plenty of counties in this country that won't sell you alcohol on Sundays. Utah has weird rules about what part of the day you can buy alcohol. We have a right to be protected from people in these religions involved, but we never are. Yet, when this religious group feels pressure against them building a mosque at a sensitive site, every Liberal with a pulse cares deeply about religious freedom. Where's your concern about the freedom to leave a religion? You're real spotty with your concern about religious freedom. You could not care less about whether Moslem women have the freedom to leave a religion they may not want anymore. That freedom is not that important to you, but the location of the Mosque she's forced to go to is very important to you. They must have that Mosque exactly where they choose.

I wonder what Riot's defense is about the Koran saying that anyone that leaves Islam must die. I don't know how she could defend that. She probably won't. She'll just say that we're the bad ones for bringing it up. How dare you bring that up! You are a racist and a bigot!

You are worse than Hitler!!

Anyone leaving the Dooryard must die.

i agree completely!!

it would be nice to do so, since i think his actions are unpardonable. however, there's no legal way to stifle them-unless of course funerals were made invitation only-and i don't even know that would work.

it is small-the problem is that one dipshit willing to kill himself to take others with him can kill hundreds of people in one attack. when you think about the total amount of muslims in the world-well, if they all wanted to commit mass mayhem and murder, we'd all be done for.

i'm figuring the powers that be in rome wish they'd thought of it.

I've heard that it's sometimes hard to leave Scientology once you become a member. They will sometimes harrass people and make their life miserable if they try to leave the group.

I hope Riot isn't a Scientology apologist. If she is, she'll probably call me a Scientology-phobe.

Too bad she's right about so much that you guys just hate on

i know if you leave the mormon religion, you've pretty much severed ties with family and friends. but, it's better than dead.

If either Scuds or you were as knowledgable about Islam as you thought you were, you'd know that only a certain subset follows that part of Sharia law. I know that doesn't fit into the non-stop "I'm justified" hate meme. Yup.

An American taxi-driver in NY was stabbed yesterday. His drunk passenger got in and asked him if he was Muslim, and when he said yes, he was stabbed.

The taxi driver will be okay. The offender is being charged with attempted murder as hate crime.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_694285.html

Of course, the nonstop "hate Muslim" crap on the internet and TV didn't have a damn thing to do with that. Naw, no ginning up of hate there, making it "publicly acceptable" to hate Muslims.

Maybe it proves "all Christians" are religious murderers, though ... hum ....

There are quite a few Mormons in the town I live (I know quite a few), and that's not true here in the least. Maybe they are not "real" Mormons.

i just know what i've read and seen in the past. may not be so much a case elsewhere, but in salt lake city and the surrounding environs, it's very much the way it is. i've seen former mormons talking about it, most recently when i finally watched bill maher's religulous.

I think there are (obviously, as with all other religions) different sects, church groups, followers, that don't take some things literally, etc. Not all Baptist, Lutheran, Christian, Catholic church groups are the same.

Excerpt from Bob Cesca today, in HuffPost, "The Summer of Republican Race-Baiting" Discusses Obama as Muslim, Shirley Sherrod, anchor babies, and:

Which subset is responsible for the 112 cars a day being burned in France and then all the new unrest in England? How would you handle it if that violent action came near you?

You tell me, Timmi. Do you think age or poverty or lack of jobs has anything to do with that? What sect to you think flew airplanes into the Pentagon and WTC? How would you handle that? Round up all the Muslims in America, maybe put them in interment camps?

Keep saying it and you might persuade most posters on here to follow that line of thinking just to get you to stfu, you redundant slit.