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"Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice."

by:	Ronald Reagan
Source:	National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982
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Categories:	America, Freedom, Religion, Intolerance, Prohibition
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We don't need religion in government schools; we need government out of schools. We need to destroy government's monopoly on education with vouchers and a separation of school and state. -- Durham, Birmingham,AL 1
Well-meaning??? AGAIN ! ! !, Liberty is: “The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, except from the laws of nature.” (Bouvier’s Law Dictionary) Liberty is the “exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual without restraint, coercion, or control from other persons. Liberty is the right which nature gives to all mankind of disposing of their persons and property after the manner they judge most consistent with their happiness, on condition of their acting within the limits of the law of nature, and so as not to interfere with an equal exercise of the same rights by other men.” (Black’s Law Dictionary 1st ed.). Clarifying original fact, natural law intent, and de jure jurisprudence: “Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” (Thomas Jefferson) “Personal liberty, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property ⋯ and is regarded as inalienable.” (16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987). In a land of individual sovereigns with inalienable right and "LIBERTY", where it is professed "liberty and justice for all" — how well meaning is it to violate the laws of nature and of nature's God and the moral underpinnings of all body politic, individual freedom and societal betterment when non-criminal religious practices are forbidden? -- Mike, Norwalk 2
To be chained up to the supernatural is to be lost in the childish dimension of make believe. -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
Correction: To be enchained in the dimension of the supernatural is to be lost in the childish realm of the make believe. -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown

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