Shanmukhan Chetty Quotes
I have no doubt that if you were to ask a cannibal, he would plead his religion for the heinous acts he does.
The debate was on a proposal to increase the female marriage age to 14. Most objected to it on the grounds that it violated Hindu religious tradition.
Shanmukhan Chetty, *, Indian Legislator, Indian Legislative Assembly Debate, Vol. VI, p. 558, 1925
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Robertson does not mention the fact that Hindus are the majority of the world’s largest democracy—India. Freedom thrives there and political equality is extensive. However, economic equality is sadly lacking as in the Untied States. However, India is more unequal.
The then current example was with same sex marriage. Some people who claimed that their religion declared same sex marriage as a sin and prohibited their aiding and abetting that activity. As a result, they claimed that their right of religious freedom allowed a county clerk to refuse to issue the marriage license or a hotel to refuse to allow a gay couple to rent their facility for a wedding, or a retail store to refuse to sell the couple bedding.
The same phrase was used by Count de Montalembert at a Catholic conference in Malines, August 20, 1863, and is sometimes attributed to him.
It is an error to say that. It is an error to say that He was the last Pope to hold temporal power. Years later, the Vatican rejected this view and adopted the modern concept of freedom of conscience. See {612714}.
Hume is one of the first to observe that if a society would be religiously pluralistic, the ruler and government had best separate itself from all of the religions. He uses the phrase “preserve a very philosophical indifference.” The Founding Fathers were familiar with Hume’s work and of his treatises were available to them in a Philadelphia library during the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
