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Sununu Calls Amendment to Protect Religious Freedom "Trivial"

by: VABBY

Fri May 15, 2009 at 11:45:14 AM EDT
(What, no "garbage"? - promoted by Dean Barker)

Yesterday State Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley called on NHGOP Chairman John H. Sununu and Republican Legislators to support an amendment to the marriage equality bill which would protect religious freedom.  But today John H. Sununu took to the airwaves and told WGIR AM listeners that the amendment to provide additional religious protections is "trivial."  

"The amendment to the marriage equality bill goes a long way to protect religious freedom, but John Sununu has chosen politics over the rights of religious organizations and has even gone so far as to call their rights "trivial." Do Republican leaders really want to be on record opposing protections for churches and clergy?" said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley.

During the course of the debate surrounding marriage equality John H. Sununu referred to the legislation as "radical" while polls conducted at the same time made clear that 55 percent of all New Hampshire residents and one third of Granite State Republicans support marriage equality.  Now after amendments to the bill were introduced which would go even farther to protect the views of religious groups, Chairman Sununu and Senate Republicans remain opposed and out of step with the people of New Hampshire.

(Posted by Victoria Bonney, Communications Director for the New Hampshire Democratic Party)
VABBY :: Sununu Calls Amendment to Protect Religious Freedom "Trivial"
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Sununu Calls Amendment to Protect Religious Freedom "Trivial" | 5 comments
He's said worse (0.00 / 0)
n/t
Yes, I suppose (4.00 / 3)
trivial is an upgrade from garbage.  

"If the Republicans will stop lying about the Democrats, the Democrats will stop telling the truth about the Republicans" -- Adlai Stevenson  
Religious institutions don't have to be "protected" or given (0.00 / 0)
a special exception; government agencies have to be directed and restrained.

Yes, when you put a muzzle on a dog that bites, people are protected.  But the effect of the muzzle is to restrain the dog.

But governments are more cagey and dangerous than mutts (0.00 / 0)
The State fears other centers of power. So we specially protect the Church and the Press. Agreed, we protect them by restraining the State - but we put a particular fence around those possible targets.
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In part, that's because legislative bodies have been reluctant (0.00 / 0)
to restrain either the bureaucracy or themselves and have found it preferable to "protect" the citizenry from themselves, even to the extent of regulating what may be ingested, inhaled, injected and excreted and where.

Campaign finance "reform" that focused on limiting citizen participation in preference to restricting the acceptance of anticipatory bribes is another egregious example.

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Sununu Calls Amendment to Protect Religious Freedom "Trivial" | 5 comments

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