Two days ago, I told someone that it’s possibly only
a matter of time before statements of religious belief
will be considered “hate speech.”
Well, well.
I guess you’d have to be a cigarette smoker, to grasp
how “society” can decide to “demonize” an activity
that was once considered simply a “bad habit.”
The question is, who gets to decide what constitutes
the “common good.”?
Consider. You can get a police escort, to go to
have an abortion, but if, after the aborition, you
light up a cigarette in the lobby, you can be fined
by the same officers who escorted you in.
I’m not defending smoking *, but I
simply point out that the “right” was established, that
the “common good” can be used as a “lever”
to marginalize 25 million people. [smokers]
It’s the same in the case of the article, referrenced above.
So all who rejoice and take satisfaction in seeing
smokers, freezing in January, outside an office
building, might ponder the *real *cost of their sense
of superiority.
“Society” came after me and my cigarettes, and
people said nothing, and even rejoiced.
Now, “society” may be coming after those with
religious beliefs and who will stop it? After all,
it’s for the “common good”, right?
And* who* decides what the “common good” is?
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