Questions:
- Do you think the park rangers should have told them to leave? Why or why not?
- How would you feel if you were kicked out of a park for celebrating your religion? Why would you feel like that?
- What would you do if you were told to leave because you were kicked out of any place for your religion? Why?
1. I personally do not think that the park rangers should have told the people to leave. I think this because it is a violation of one of the 1st amendment rights, freedom of religion. These people were a small group, in need of a nice quiet place to baptize a few members of their church. They did not make a distraction and I do not see why this would be offensive.
ReplyDelete2. If I were kicked out of a park because of my religion, I would feel pretty mad. This is a violation of basic citizen rights and I would be upset that our world would come to this conclusion. I understand that I would need a permit for a fairly large group but this is a small innocent gathering of people.
3.If I were kicked out because of my religion I would defiantly question the people who are kicking me out and tell them about first amendment rights. Hopefully then they would see something wrong with what they are doing.
1. As said in the article, 12 people is not that large of a gathering. The park officials in a manner showed religious discrimination towards a baptism in a park and they shouldn't of told the people to leave. Also, the gathering didn't seem harmful or violent in any way.
ReplyDelete2. I would actually be quite infuriated if the officials had kicked me out. Because of my religion though, I wouldn't personally hurt anyone or do harm, though I'd probably convince or persuade them about the wrong doings of their actions. In America, people are not allowed to deny the beliefs and practices of religions, no matter what. The United States is the symbol of freedom; preferably of religion, belief, and idea.
3. If I were kicked out of a place because of my religion, most likely I'd file a suit of sorts demanding a violation of First Amendment rights. The officials anyways had no rule saying that groups had to have permits but none the less implied the rule. It's unbelievable that in the land of the free comes mistreatment and limitations because of your beliefs.
I think that as long as the gathering wasn't disruptive to the parks atmosphere (loud, out of control, disrespectful to others) then the rangers had no reason to kick them out. Having a few baptisms in a park doesn't hurt anyone... what makes it worse is that the park was PUBLIC PROPERTY, the rangers had NO right to kick them out.
ReplyDeleteI would definately be pissed off because my religion doesn't or shouldn't affect any other person.
If I was kicked out from a public placed for celebrating my religion I wouldn't go anywhere. If I did I would surely be returning to exercis my right to protest.
1. Under the circumstances that they were performing the baptisms in a respectful and peaceful nature, as most baptisms are performed, I believe the park officials should not have removed these people. By being removed they definetley had their first amendment rights violated.
ReplyDelete2. Although I am not a very religious person, I would definatley be very angry. As long as I was not being obnoxious there would be no reason for me to be removed, so if I were asked to leave I would take it as bias towards my religion.
3. I would definatley make my opinions heard before going anywhere. I would surely state that I was well within my rights and if I was still forced to leave I would either return in a peaceful protest or make the incident known to the proper authorities