Does the US Constitution guarantee tolerance of other religions by citizens? Why can't I draw Mohammed?

Question

or Burn a Menorah on my Property, or mock any religion? What right do you have to stop me? ( boy I am in a cranky mood today! monthly issues)

What LAW says I have to be tolerent is what I am Asking.

Answer 1

I was going to inquire about your menstral cycle...wow!

I mock every organized religion I can. Let them arrest me!

Also you can't burn a cross either...you would get arrested. LOL

Answer 2

You seem to confuse tolerance of other religions with inciting riots.
What religion is it that requires you to burn a Menorah on your property? NONE.
I am not even Jewish (I guess I am Atheist) and I would no problem stopping that crap.
This has nothing to do with tolerance of religion. There is no protections in the constitution for this kind of behavior.

Answer 3

I figure if people have the right to burn MY flag (and they do), you have the right to draw Mohammed burning a Menorah on your Property. :)

Do as you wish - this even after the Patriot Act, is still the United States.
Although, you may need to deal with people that feel you should think only the way they do.

Answer 4

the Constitution only guarantees there will be no "official" US religion. You can mock religion, draw all the pictures of Mohammad you want, or burn the Menorah (that one might be considered akin to a hate crime if others can see the display).

Answer 5

I am often amazed at people's ability to spout all of the rights they have but how little they consider the responsibilities that accompany them.

Here is an example: In my town, if you wanted to have a garage sale, you just had a garage sale. Then along came one new resident who set up a clothing business in his garage selling new merchandise seven days a week and calling it a garage sale.

Well, since he abused the freedom we all had the town had to pass an ordinance requiring you to get a permit and limiting how many garage sales you could have in a year.

If we don't know enough to put limits on what we do, someone else will do it for us.

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Answer 6

Personally I think you have the political right to poke fun at ANY religion. However, Muslims are itchy and they may slash back. It is just happenstance that Western politicians have a spine of rubber so they will accommodate "demonstrations" made in police states like Syria or Iran.

Get my point. Confronted with an international embarrassment they will pull down their pants, to be taken from behind. And some Bozos take every opportunity to laugh at George W.

Answer 7

No. The Constitution guarantees that everyone has the right to practice their religion. It does prohibit you from interfering with that.

But the same ammendment does guarantee you the right to express your opinion, even if that opinion is intolerant and marks you as a bigot who is a disgrace to everything our forefathers fought and died for.

Note however, that right to speak does NOT make you immune from criticism or social ostracism. Remember, when you say what you think, your listeners are also free to say what they think of your remarks--that's THEIR right. And if they don't like wha tthey say, that's your problem.

Have a nice day. :)

Answer 8

You have every right to do those things as long as they don't effect the freedoms and rights of others (as in you can burn whatever you want as long as it belongs to you.) The Mohammed drawing is one of those things that people fear. There is no law against it, but radical muslims have been known to riot over it. I say they need to get over themselves. You don't have to tolerate anything you don't want to, as long as you don't infringe on the rights of others. And despite what some uber liberals would say, offending someone is not an infringment on their rights. Part of freedom of speech is the right to offend. So mock away.

Answer 9

Would doing this bring you some sort of self-gratification? Are you truly doing it in protest of your right to do it or for attention?

It all depends on your motive. Either way, the truly religious will be offended and there's nothing that can be done about it.

No one has a right to stop you, BUT if you found someone did something truly disrespectful to your feelings/beliefs, what would be your reaction?

Answer 10

It is your right. The Constitution guarantees freedom OF religion, not tolerance of other religions.
If you burn anything, you are contributing to global warming!
Al Gore says the planet has a fever, and you don't want to be contributing to the planets sickness.
So, is Mother Earth just having "hot flashes"??