Religion, or lack there of, is Freedom
by: Selena Wetherby
by: Selena Wetherby
Because of where I live Freedom has always been something
I had as resource and has never been denied to me. It’s not even the fact that I live in America
is what makes me free but of who I am that makes me free.
Many people all over the world cannot worship the way that
they would like. Worship and religion is a
beautiful thing that people twist and bend to make it rear an ugly head, which
is why I find religious discrimination appalling. I’m not a super religious
person, but I believe that there is a higher power, most of my personal beliefs
come from Catholicism. That means even outside America, where there is
freedom of region, my faith is widely accepted. This is not the case for many. France has been working on a movement to make public places
secular, this an institutional. In the media that is mainly focused on store
employees and school girls not wearing head dresses. This law bars all public
displays of conspicuous religions symbols, including crosses, stars of David
and any form of Islamic head dress.
Europe’s
freedom of religion laws are very different from then the U.S, where this kind
of discrimination would be unconstitutional. Religion is always something that
I have taken for granted and I as I get older the more it becomes a freedom to
me, because it’s the more I hear about people that are discouraged for their
beliefs. This is freedom because it was
something I was always told I could do, and I started to see it.
