2seaoat wrote: Does that automatically mean Bill Maher and I need to defend Bachman's religion?
It would be the courageous and moral thing to do if that religion was being targeted for unequal protection of the law. Bill Mahr has no use for any religion. However, if folks who had no use for any religion, were questioned and those beliefs were discovered and a candidate talked about deporting those people after a religious test.......well you need only go to Utah right now and see why one of the most Republican areas in the nation is rejecting religious prosecution. Visit the Carthage jail, or the Navuoo Temple.....a trip I would recommend for every American to fully understand the importance of our first amendment and fourteenth amendment where equal protection of the law matters.
As usual, your post is filled with false premises.
Number one, Bill Maher and I have no desire to see anyone be deported because of his or her religion. We both love and cherish the First Amendment more than any other thing the Founding Fathers conceived. And we both completely support the concept than in this country people are perfectly free to worship jehova or allah or Lucifer or Soupy Sales or Paris Hilton or anything else.
Secondly, you have a total misconception of the First Amendment. Just as it allows anyone to worship anything, it ALSO guarantees that Bill Maher and I can condemn anything, be it a religion or the Ku Klux Klan or anything else, which promotes the enslavement of women and the persecution of homosexuals. If you don't understand that then you have no comprehension of the First Amendment.
Thirdly, there is nothing moral about supporting the enslavement of women or the persecution of homosexuals.
Fourthly, while the First Amendment protects the worship of anything, it absolutely does not protect people who desire to replace the Constitution and the First Amendment itself with a theocracy like Sharia Law. That's exactly why the First Amendment was invented in the first place. To prevent the state from being controlled by a religion. If you don't understand that then you TRULY don't comprehend the First Amendment.
What you always seem to be in denial of, is that Sharia Law and the enslavement of women and the persecution of homosexuals are all dictated by the Quran itself. And the Quran is the supreme law of Islam.
If an individual refutes those tenets, then he IS NOT a Muslim. For him to claim to worship the Quran but not believe it would be a nonsensical oxymoron. A total contradiction in terms.
It's no different than someone who claims to be a Christian, but refutes what the Bible tells him. If you don't buy what the Bible says, then you aint no Christian.
What people like you always want to do is to try to distance the religion from the religion's adherents. That's like trying to have your cake and eat it too except it's one of the most extreme examples of that one can imagine.
However, and I'm completely sincere about this, that might not actually be true in your case. You have never in my recollection EVER expressed any empathy for the women and homosexuals who are targeted by this religion or the Christian religion. So I really have
to wonder about your motives when you continue to defend the persecutors.