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How does someone being gay affect your religious freedom? O right, it doesn't and you really do not have anything resembling a reason.
You already have religious freedom. You don't need to fight for the right to impose it on others though.
This was too lenient. I should of asked the following:
No, you're fighting against it. Not every religion enshrines bigotry as doctrine. You're fighting to make sure your religious beliefs triumph over the beliefs of others. It's the people who support equality who are fighting for religious freedom -- the religious freedom of all people, not the freedom of people like yourself to impose your religious beliefs on everybody else.
A barefaced lie. Nobody is challenging your freedom of speech. People are challenging the truth of what you say. You have a First Amendment right to tell lies and preach bigotry, but you don't have a right not to be called on it. Anytime anybody contradicts you, you cry that your freedom of speech is threatened. What a childish lie. Freedom of speech does not convey freedom from criticism. If your speech is homophobic, expect to be called on it.
Dallin Oaks knows perfectly well -- or ought to -- that this is not an issue in the United States because of the First Amendment. Very few countries have such unfettered freedom of speech as we have, and the First Amendment won't change because gay people have legal equality. Dallin Oaks is either a fool or a shameless liar and fearmonger. Perhaps all three.
Exactly. Your doctrine and your principles, which you intend to force on the general population in direct opposition to the right to freedom of religion.
