- Religious belief and practice of people. People of faith and people of no faith should be able to express their beliefs or lack there of so long as they do no harm to other citizens. No persecution of the religious or discrimination in rights and privileges based upon religious belief and practice. The implication would include, however, no more government holidays simply based on religious holy days and festivals (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc.) No picking religious favorites with holidays. Employees of government should be allowed a set number of religious days to observe by not working if they so choose or considered vacation days if they are not religious. No charitable donation deductions for taxed income (see my other posts about national sales tax to replace variable income tax system). Churches and religious organization should not campaign or endorse parties or candidates even if the facilities owned by the religious groups serve as community meeting places for voting or debate.
- Guns/weapons/swords/rocks/lasers/rockets/tanks/sling shots. People have the right to bear arms or the right to bear no arms and lean on the law enforcement protection. Prosecute people for harming people.
- Freedom of speech and ideas to flow freely on any source of media so long as it does not infringe upon the right of a person or vested company. Copyright protection is valid. Mass hysteria inciting speech such as yelling fire in a theater is not protected. But the press, the Internet, the airwaves are public access to companies and people seeking to have their voices heard. This includes campaign donations. Limiting who and how much a person or organization can donate is limiting speech. Any limitation of free speech by the government is infringing upon the rights state in our Bill of Rights.
- Marriage. Government (federal, state, or local) has no business being involved in marriage. Governments should protect individual rights of all people . Marriages, however, are religious ceremonies endorsed and performed by religious communities of faith. Outside of religious communities, marriage has no definition, values, or benefits that could be agreed upon by all. Also, religious groups need not feel compelled to conduct marriages that are then later defined differently by a government. For example, my view of marriage need not equal a Morman, Jewish, or atheist view of marriage. Let not the government pick favorite groups to endorse or needless include all. Protect people's freedom of religious expression in belief and practice. If taxes or race purification is no longer a motive for the governments to be involved in marriage (which is how the federal governments got involved in the first place) then government has no business in marriage definition or recognition.
- Let people assemble whenever for whatever purpose so long as it is not harming people or property.
Feel free to discus. Tell me what you think.
