The states cannot write a law respecting an establishment of religion, but they must allow citizens to exercise their religion. Religious people find their identity in their believes, and overlooking their believes is no less than stepping over their rights. The video above is about Obama birth control mandate, "a regulation that expands women's access to birth-control methods, including drugs that induce abortion" ("The Obama birth-control mandate" 1). Even though, the birth control mandate gives women the right to their body, it also goes against millions of Americans believes. This mandate is not giving many religious citizens, mainly Catholics, their Constitutional rights. Like John Bruning said, America was founded by people who crossed the ocean to be able to worship freely.
I love how America takes human rights very seriously. The U.S. Constitution is the United States rock and foundation, it is a document that I believe holds America together. The founders of these countries had everyone's rights into consideration, including religious people. It might have been because they themselves were religious, and migrated in order to freely worship. Yet, I am beyond glad that I can freely tell people my religious believes, pray in privacy and in public. I really hope that other foreign countries will begin to comprehend the value that comes allowing people to have their own religion. It is everyone's right to have a religion, and depriving a human being of such freedom is nothing but discrimination. It is time for this generational and international injustice to come to an end.
Works Cited
The Monitor's Editorial, Board. "The Obama birth-control mandate." Christian Science Monitor 09 Feb. 2012: N.PAG. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 16 June 2013.
I do agree that people find their identity through their beliefs, but you have to see this from every perspective. I, for one, am not a religious person. I do not view abortion as a sin, I don't completely agree with it, but I don't find it a sin. In fact, being a non-religious person, I cannot clearly define or even say that I believe in sin, since it is a biblical term. In the situation you presented, the only standpoint is done by religious leaders. Therefore it becomes extremly biased. The reporter says that "this country was founded by people who came across the ocean to be able to worship freedom...the president and administration think they can tell people that they have to violate their conscience". Isn't this the exact treatment Native Americans received when this country was "founded"? Where are their rights? All I'm getting at is that every perspective should be taken into consideration. That doesn't go to say that I agree with Obama's mandate, it just goes to say that all viewpoints should be considered, not just the religious viewpoint.
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