Letter: Religion shouldn’t be forced on anyone

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 | 9:07 a.m.

People with strong religious convictions seem to forget that their rights end where another person's rights begin. There is a danger in allowing religion to ride roughshod over people in the name of religious freedom.

Our freedoms are being eroded as religion is forced into our lives. We have had the scandal of evangelical Christians forcing their beliefs on cadets at the Air Force Academy, and it is a shame on this country that people seeking political office, like the presidency, must profess to have some religious affiliation or they cannot get elected. This is not freedom. It is oppression by religion.

People who are so arrogant as to think they have a mandate from God to dictate morality to others are dangerous. There is a blurring of the line between church and state. Religious zealotry seeks to supplant the Constitution with the Bible as the supreme law of the land.

Our country had been a bastion of resistance against religious tyranny but we are losing the battle. Today a pharmacist refuses to fill a prescription for the morning-after pill, but what's next, burning heretics at the stake or stoning women for using birth control?

Nadia Romeo Las Vegas