The Catholic Bill Colley got kicked out of the Sussex County Community Organized Regiment because he dared to suggest that saying only the Protestant version of the Lord’s Prayer at the start of meetings might be somewhat offensive to Catholics and Jews, or any other non protestant members attending the meeting:
I’ve been drummed out of the Sussex County Community Organized Regiment. I got the bad news Monday night. Apparently I’m not a very good soldier. My heresy was to suggest we consider there could be people attending meetings who don’t belong to protestant Christian denominations. Apparently since I’m still barely hanging on as a Roman Catholic I’m not really a Christian.
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At one point I suggested we allow folks bow their heads for their own intentions or perhaps rotate prayers (I also remind you the name God frequently is mentioned in documents written by the founders but Jesus is a bit more absent). SCCOR’s Director has suggested if I can’t play nice I form my own organization. […] I respect many of the people with the Sussex County Community Organized Regiment because they got involved out of concerns they no longer had a voice in affairs of state. Apparently I was misinformed. You’re eligible for these concerns unless you happen to be a Catholic, Mormon or Jew.
This is just evidence that a coalition of libertarians and social conservatives is pretty much finished. You social conservatives simply must get over your preoccupation with religion. Religion is a personal choice. A personal freedom. There is no one true God or one true Faith in America. There may be one in your own personal life, but not anywhere else. And you have no right, no right to enforce your faith on anyone else. Yes, that goes for your own family. For they are human beings too, and have free will to decide what their faith and beliefs will be.
Why should a political meeting have a specific prayer? Personally, I believe there should no prayer at all, but am willing to concede to a blessing where the meeting attendants ask Skydad to guide our thoughts and actions in the pursuit of whatever goal we seek. That is pretty universal, don’t you think? Well, except for the atheists.
I never expected in life to have sympathy for Bill Colley. But maybe he now understands the discriminatory nature of the social right. It looks like he does:
How can we expect to “save” our country when so many are focused on eradicating those saved by a different prescription?