A Right To Speak Out

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Pubdate: Wed, 05 Jan 2005
Source: Langley Times (CN BC)
Copyright: 2005 BC Newspaper Group and New Media Development
Contact:  http://www.langleytimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1230
Author: Ken J. Marsh
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/opinion.htm (Opinion)

A RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT

Editor:

In The Times of Dec. 29, Muhammad Azam said in part: "We are living in a 
society and we have to go by the rule of the majority.

No one can say it is his right to grow pot and smoke it, his right to be 
naked in the street, his right to disobey the laws of the nation, etc. It 
is not against the personal beliefs of people or man-made religion, but it 
is prohibited by the Creator of this world to have same-sex marriages. His 
commandments are called religion and if Mr. MacDonald cannot obey His 
commandments then he can move out of His world."

With all due respect I suggest that, in the words of Jack Nicholson, your 
correspondent "cannot handle the truth", otherwise he would have to face 
the fact that he is doing the very thing he is accusing Mr. MacDonald of 
doing - namely denying others the right to their own interpretation of the 
law under which we must all function as individuals.

How is it that he can say no one has the right to grow and smoke pot, be 
naked in the street, and/or disobey the laws of the nation, or do anything 
he thinks is wrong, but it is his right to say anything he wants to say in 
your newspaper, even though his remarks insinuate bigotry, racism and 
hatred towards presumably non-religious people like Mr. MacDonald?

At the very least Mr. MacDonald did not suggest your correspondent "can 
move out of His world."

Ken J. Marsh, Langley 
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