the mellow tigger's musings

I feel a need to clarify something about my post that seems to have been misunderstood. I wasn't asking the question to suggest that any goverment, local, state or federal, should enforce anything on religious organizations or individuals as to what they can believe. I was merely asking the question to illustrate how if you were to ask the average person whether they oppose bigotry against a person based on what we term race or ethnicity, they would undoubtedly say they do oppose it (due to decades of struggles and debates in America on the subject. Of course racism is still alive and well in this country but it has been largely marginalized and general public opinion would posit that it is a socially unacceptable ideology). Now if we look at the way many religions view other religions it seems to embody the same sort of bigotry as racism, ethnocentrism and the like, but in the case of religion it is still largely socially acceptable to hold that kind of ideology.

So my question was only asking why that was the case but with no implication that any governing body should step in and tell anyone what they have the right to believe.