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Originally Posted by Steve Rupe
When I am in my grave then a younger generation can do as they choose. This is not now the nation that I grew up in and enough is enough in my opinion.
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Yes, I agree, enough is enough.
You want to force your will on others to do as you want while the whole time I am sure in your home you do not do the same as you are expecting of others.
I will not worship a idol just because it is your tradition. If I did it it will be because I want to do it of my own accord.
The largest right given to you in the 'bill of rights' of the constitution is the right of dissent.
That means the right to disagree publicly with the actions of your government.
Take that away and we immediately live in a world similar to N.Korea or China or Russia.
As all of the other rights come in jeopardy.
I don't have the desire to burn a flag. But if you wish to make it unlawful, I will do it everyday. I worship no idols !
I do worship a document that says exactly what and how a civil society conducts itself.
That 'bill of rights' the founding fathers felt so strongly about that it was a built-in function to prevent the Congress from changing it. For they feared this exact same knee-jerk reactionary from altering these core values.
You must also be forgetting that the reason the kneeling was done in the first place was to remember those that were not being treated as the constitution tells us they should be treated... which is equally... under the law.
Instead of that recognition, you would make it illegal to protest the government if you could.
Which is less American ?