Curt Smith: Barr speech clarifies what’s at stake in 2020

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4 thoughts on “Curt Smith: Barr speech clarifies what’s at stake in 2020

  1. I am some what confused. Why is one religion more important than another. I see religious enthusiasm to force others to live by other religious beliefs as half handed as letting those of the LGBEQ

  2. (saorry was not finished)
    … of the LGBTQ community live their lives as the please. I view is that one sect of religion wants to control the other. Why they both can not have the freedoms they deserve. In many case laid their lives on the line protecting yours and their rights of religious freedom. If you do not believe in abortion, don’t work in their clinics. If you do not believe in others religious freedoms then aren’t you a Hypocrite?

    1. I don’t believe he is saying that one religion is more important than another. I believe he is saying he doesn’t feel he can live out his faith in today’s cultural atmosphere. Christians are seen as bigoted and intolerant because they have passionate beliefs that counter where our culture is going. Christians should not be asked to stop believing something to fit into where society is headed. That is not religious liberty.

      There has to be a happy medium here, a compromise where both parties feel like they’re leaving something on the table. That’s normally how the best compromises are reached. So maybe Christians should be more open to and accepting of legalized abortion and gay marriage than they historically have been. But they should not be forced to subscribe to promoting or paying for either.

      In reference to abortion clinics, it would be one thing if the right was arguing for no tax exemptions for abortion clinics – that would be a challenge of another belief system. Their argument is they don’t want their tax dollars going to a procedure that challenges their faith. Beto is saying that tax exemptions should be removed from establishments based on what they believe – that is not religious liberty, either.

      One faith or belief system is not better than another, and that is not what Curt is arguing. He is saying that by our culture going so far in one direction, the direction of blanketed tolerance, that Christian faith is no longer tolerated as valid or, in some cases, legal.

  3. While I disagree with my friend’s opinion, I will say that the majority’s communication Obergefell decision, while rendered correctly and Constitutionally, was described insufficiently, leading the dissenting judges and opponents into this prolonged cultural war in which someone like our President could be considered as a champion of religious freedoms. May I suggest that their contention is more of a contrivance than a reality.

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