Jadzia
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So she can forget about the yearly pilgrimage to Mecca. It's a bunch of bullshit, if you ask me.
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It was your tone that made it sound as if you were enjoying the fact that by following her religious beliefs she would be shooting herself in the foot.
If this wasn't the case, then I apologise.
However I do not apologise for maintaining my position or pointing out the inconsistencies in what people have been saying.
@ You say "Follow whatever religion you want" but then you would deny her reasonable procedures to let her do so.
@ People say '9/11 is not the issue, there is no new threat'. Then they talk about a threat to "safety and well being" or "security". I ask you: Show me that threat.
@ "No one is above the law". Very true. But some laws are wrong and should be changed. It is currently illegal in parts of America to have consensual sex with other men in your own home. There are threads about in TFP. But I don't see anyone in those thread saying "Tough Shit Homosexuals, no one is above the law". Instead people are saying "that's an abuse of state power, an invasion of privacy and denial of basic human rights". Why there and not here? [please don't come back to me saying that the gay sex issue is different. I *know* its different. But they have fundamental things in common which mean that I feel I must stand up and protest against government activity on both of these issues]. Laws can be unjust and a blind appeal to "its the law, so just shut up and accept it" isn't going to convince me and it isn't going to help society.