emilynghiem
Constitutionalist / Universalist
I have found that issues involving religious beliefs should be mediated to reach a consensus on laws, in order to be fair to all people's beliefs.
At first I thought it was just common sense, in order to include those beliefs as equal.
Now, l have learned that even to RECOGNIZE what is a belief versus an opinion, and being able to include this equally in law, is a religious bias that some people don't have.
Thus, it is even MORE critical to use a neutral party or process to mediate to reach a consensus, now that I know people cannot even see each other's beliefs, and that is why they are violating them without knowing this is discriminating against someone. They really believe they are right.
They don't see the other beliefs as valid and included in law, and that just isn't their "opinion"
that is PART of their beliefs and how they see things. This cannot be helped or changed,
if it just their beliefs and they cannot see it any other way.
So I looked online and found this student summary
but it doesn't talk about solutions by mediating conflicts to reach consensus:
Church and State
I was looking for ANY statement or website that recognizes the
Political BIAS and BELIEF
* of liberals putting their POLITICAL BELIEF FIRST
of Govt authority first OVER religious beliefs as optional
* or conservatives putting their Constitutional beliefs first over secularism
of God and religious conviction OVER govt which has neither authority to establish this
or to deny and regulate religion.
AND which recognizes the NEED to MEDIATE and INCLUDE them equally,
not criticize one and impose the other. Is there no group anywhere addressing this issue?
Because in case of conflict, both sides revert to their DEFAULT beliefs for authority,
then the liberal secularists will use GOVT to try to overrule the religious opponents
because that is their belief. The Christians and conservatives will still put their God and religion first and say that govt cannot be used to subvert that.
I noticed with Bush's extreme use of govt authority and "war powers"
many people, on left and right, protested this invocation of God-given authority
went too far and violated beliefs in Constitutional limits on govt and other political beliefs of the people
paying for the military actions and decisions. But because Congress voted and agreed,
then this was used as justification.
Now the shoe is on the other foot with the ACA pushed as a political belief through govt.
I believe it will take mediation to reach a consensus
because political beliefs are involved and can't be separated from govt.
Which people or parties do you believe should be petitioned or sued
to resolve this conflict, which are the ones most directly responsible for pushing it and fixing it?
Who is in the best position to influence resolution?
At first I thought it was just common sense, in order to include those beliefs as equal.
Now, l have learned that even to RECOGNIZE what is a belief versus an opinion, and being able to include this equally in law, is a religious bias that some people don't have.
Thus, it is even MORE critical to use a neutral party or process to mediate to reach a consensus, now that I know people cannot even see each other's beliefs, and that is why they are violating them without knowing this is discriminating against someone. They really believe they are right.
They don't see the other beliefs as valid and included in law, and that just isn't their "opinion"
that is PART of their beliefs and how they see things. This cannot be helped or changed,
if it just their beliefs and they cannot see it any other way.
So I looked online and found this student summary
but it doesn't talk about solutions by mediating conflicts to reach consensus:
Church and State
I was looking for ANY statement or website that recognizes the
Political BIAS and BELIEF
* of liberals putting their POLITICAL BELIEF FIRST
of Govt authority first OVER religious beliefs as optional
* or conservatives putting their Constitutional beliefs first over secularism
of God and religious conviction OVER govt which has neither authority to establish this
or to deny and regulate religion.
AND which recognizes the NEED to MEDIATE and INCLUDE them equally,
not criticize one and impose the other. Is there no group anywhere addressing this issue?
Because in case of conflict, both sides revert to their DEFAULT beliefs for authority,
then the liberal secularists will use GOVT to try to overrule the religious opponents
because that is their belief. The Christians and conservatives will still put their God and religion first and say that govt cannot be used to subvert that.
I noticed with Bush's extreme use of govt authority and "war powers"
many people, on left and right, protested this invocation of God-given authority
went too far and violated beliefs in Constitutional limits on govt and other political beliefs of the people
paying for the military actions and decisions. But because Congress voted and agreed,
then this was used as justification.
Now the shoe is on the other foot with the ACA pushed as a political belief through govt.
I believe it will take mediation to reach a consensus
because political beliefs are involved and can't be separated from govt.
Which people or parties do you believe should be petitioned or sued
to resolve this conflict, which are the ones most directly responsible for pushing it and fixing it?
Who is in the best position to influence resolution?
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