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| padib said: @JWein. She was denied the right to act according to her beliefs. She is persecuted. |
No. Persecution is denying someone a right that others are given. She was not denied of the right to act according to her beliefs because she does not have that right.. Nobody has that right. There is no part of the constitution and no law in general that states you are allowed to do whatever you want whenever you want if it is due to your beliefs. You want religious people to have this extra special right that nobody else has, and when they don't get it, you call it persecution.
If it is my belief that stealing is ok, that does not make it ok. If Jared Fogle beliefs that it is right to have sex with children, he does not have the right to act on that belief. If I believe that it is right to stone people to death for working on the sabbath, I cannot act on that. If a teacher believes that black people have the curse of ham and do not want to teach them, they cannot deny them education.
We do not have the right to act according to our belief, when that action violates the rights of another. I have the right to swing my fist, but not if your face is in the way. Your right to equal protection under the law supercedes my right to act according to my desires.
What you want is for her to have extra special rights. Not only should she have the right to get married as she sees fit, for instance four times, but she should also be able to take away the rights of others based on this.
I sincerely and truly belief that it is morally wrong to teach religion to children as truth. Does that mean I should be allowed to go into a church and smack the bible out of the priest's hand? If you call the police and they stop me, am I being persecuted? Aren't you denying me the right to act according to my beliefs? If it's not persecution to stop me, why is it persecution for Kim Davis? If I don't have this right, why should she?
