What We Owe Jehovah's Witnesses |
By Sarah Barringer Gordon |
Published Online: January 27, 2011 |
http://www.historynet.com/what-we-owe-jehovahs-witnesses.htm
Has anyone read this? It's very interesting. I heard about this by a guy at my old job saying hey yeah JW had some influence as to our rights as Amercans... I was like huh really!?! Well he told me to look it up and see and I never really did. Then here today I came across this.
"Most important, in ruling that Witness children could not be forced to recite the pledge, the new majority rejected the notion that legislatures, rather than the courts, were the proper place to address questions involving religious liberty. The "very purpose" of the Bill of Rights, wrote Justice Robert Jackson, was to protect some issues from the majority rule of politics. "One's right to life, liberty and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, may not be submitted to vote….Fundamental rights depend on the outcome of no elections." Jackson's opinion was laced with condemnation of enforced patriotism and oblique hints at the slaughter taking place in Hitler's Europe."
By the way the comments on the bottom of the webpage are pretty interesting as well. Might I add.
