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There are limits to religious freedoms
Sam Osborne
Apr. 1, 2015 1:00 am, Updated: Apr. 7, 2015 5:40 pm
To the editor:
Thoughts on the holy state of matrimony and same-sex marriage in the wake of religious outrage:
When the exercise of one's freedom of religion extends to another person having to endure a bit of inconvenience, some rather interesting things
happen: Jesus found himself nailed to a cross by some very religious Sanhedrin, the faithful in good-old Salem needed for goodness sake to burn some woman at the stake, and very pious Southern Baptists owned other people as slaves because God had told them how to treat them and marched to civil war about it singing 'Onward, Christian Soldiers,” or was that the other guys?
Sam Osborne
West Branch
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