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NeoGreen

(4,031 posts)
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:48 AM May 2018

Bryan Fischer: Jewish People & Other Non-Christians Don't Have First Amendment Rights

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bryan-fisher-jewish-people-other-non-christians-dont-have-first-amendment-rights/




Bryan Fischer: Jewish People & Other Non-Christians Don’t Have First Amendment Rights
By Kyle Mantyla | May 2, 2018 10:53 am

On his radio program yesterday, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer declared, once again, that only Christianity is protected by the First Amendment and that all non-Christians—including Jews, Muslims and Native Americans—have no constitutionally guaranteed right to freely practice their faiths.

Fischer, who routinely puts forward a completely incoherent theory regarding the meaning of the First Amendment, was discussing a case involving a North Carolina inmate who is suing for the right to practice Wicca when he declared that “worshipers of the devil” and all other non-Christian faiths are not entitled to First Amendment protections.

“The blunt, simple, direct, straightforward answer is that Wiccans do not have First Amendment rights,” he said, “nor do Muslims, nor do Jews, nor do Native Americans, nor do Rastafarians, nor do any practitioners of any other religion other than Christianity.”

“Whatever the First Amendment is about, whatever protections it extends in the federal Constitution, those were just for Christianity,” Fischer insisted. “Christianity has First Amendment rights under the federal Constitution, no other religion does.”


And people ask, "Why do you criticize religion?" and "Why do you focus on christianity with your criticism?"
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Bryan Fischer: Jewish People & Other Non-Christians Don't Have First Amendment Rights (Original Post) NeoGreen May 2018 OP
THIS atreides1 May 2018 #1
Blowing right past the establishment clause there... unblock May 2018 #2
No, they just write off the other flavors as non-Christians Major Nikon May 2018 #6
Oh god whom I do not believe in: FiveGoodMen May 2018 #3
Only applies to correct safeinOhio May 2018 #4
Native Americans Runningdawg May 2018 #5

atreides1

(16,075 posts)
1. THIS
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:54 AM
May 2018

This form of religious belief is along the same lines as islam practiced by ISIL...and if they had the ability to do it...groups like the AFA would be executing "non-believers" all day long!!!

unblock

(52,200 posts)
2. Blowing right past the establishment clause there...
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:54 AM
May 2018

Lemme guess, the founders just meant the government couldn't establish one *flavor* of Christianity over another....

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
3. Oh god whom I do not believe in:
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:01 PM
May 2018

Create a hell so that Bryan Fischer can rot there.

IOW: Goddamn that motherfucker.

safeinOhio

(32,674 posts)
4. Only applies to correct
Thu May 3, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

Christians....not RCs, Amish, Quakers and other non evangelistic Christians.

Let the Sectarian wars begin too.

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