First Amendment

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[durangodawood]

"Congress shall make no law...."

The first amendment does not restrict what society considers politically correct or not.

 

[Rescued One]

You may have to expand a bit about what you seem to be upset about. When I see this in the context of the 1st Amendment, all I see is...

Non-Christians are praised [people exercising free speech] when they condone [people exercising free speech] abortion but Christians are [declared to be [people exercising free speech]] not politically correct if they share [people exercising free speech] Christian beliefs?

I will gladly expand. I believe in free speech. I believe that people can calmly disagree. I believe in ending conversations I'm having if the person I'm conversing with is becoming agitated.

In the 1980s my grade school daughter tried to share her Christian belief with another student at school. I had never talked to her about evangelizing. She came home and told me that the girl had started punching her. I went to the school and talked to the assistant principal. I was told that my daughter was the one who was guilty of wrongdoing. Why is violence condoned?

 

[Strathos]

Is there a law against voicing your opposition to abortion now?

 

[essentialsaltes]

In the 1980s my grade school daughter tried to share her Christian belief with another student at school. I had never talked to her about evangelizing. She came home and told me that the girl had started punching her. I went to the school and talked to the assistant principal. I was told that my daughter was the one who was guilty of wrongdoing.

This sounds like a bad principal situation, not a First Amendment situation.

 

[Sodafox]

This sounds like a bad principal situation, not a First Amendment situation.

Not the First Amendment but I can see the logic of OP.

Why are BLM "protests" a O.K. and necessary during a supposed pandemic while gathering for church is a no-no?

Additionally, someone mentioned social media censoring certain ideas. That's true, too. Should freedom of speech not apply to social media platforms? While I can see both sides of this argument (the platform being a private company that can allow what they want) I typically do lean let the platforms do what they want. I just won't support those platforms and many others feel the same. There will always be corners for "wrong think" if you know where to look.

 

[Rescued One]

This sounds like a bad principal situation, not a First Amendment situation.

I'm not complaining about the First Amendment. I believe in it but not in someone's ignoring it in favor of violence.

For instance my five siblings have the right to tell me they are atheists or agnostics and Democrats. I am a Christian and a Republican.

And I agree with what Martin Luther King said in August 1963, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

 

[essentialsaltes]

I'm not complaining about the First Amendment.

I mean... that's what you titled the thread. So forgive me if that's what I thought you wanted to talk about.

 

[Rescued One]

I was talking about it. I did not find fault with it. The Assistant Principal was the one who didn't respect it.