A response to my posts on Chuck (convicted Felon) Colson

A poster on The Christian Post responded to my earlier posts and there simply wasn't enough space to quote him completely and then respond to him so I am giving it here:

davimcg »Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:02 pm
Alockslee, Your reading of the First Amendment is spot on. The text's stated purpose is to prevent the federal government, Congress, from creating "any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . . ." However, the U.S. Supreme Court has incorporated the protections of the First Amendment to apply to the states as well. Thus, according to the U.S. Supreme Court (but not the actual text of the First Amendment) every state must abide by the protections of the First Amendment. Therefore, your declaration that the First Amendment only restricts the "FEDERAL" government is incorrect, at least according to current Supreme Court jurisprudence.

Also, your postings about how have Mr. Colson's rights been infringed upon leads me to believe you did not read his commentary very carefully. The infringement he writes about is the State of New Jersey forcing eHarmony to provide a dating service for homosexuals. That's a state forcing an organization to act in opposition to its sincerely held religious beliefs. Thus, New Jersey has infringed upon eHarmony's free exercise of religion and, therefore, has violated eHarmony's First Amendment protections. And, if you did not know, First Amendment protections are accorded to organizations not just individuals.

Finally, for further reference, the "Equal Protection Clause" is in the Fourteenth Amendment, not the First.
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My response :


In response: Please be kind enough to point out where I said the Equal Protection Clause was part of the 1st Amendment?

I never said that it was. Furthermore it appears that you have introduced something I did not say or covered due to lack of space in my earlier postings, no where did I discuss eHarmony or it's particular corporate rights under the application extended via the case law.

But since you brought it up we could if space allowed go into the entity doing business in the US called eHarmony and the laws that allow it to be treated in some cases as an individual, however a corporation has rights not extended to individuals as do individuals possess certain civil rights not available to corporations.

My post dealt strictly with Chuck Colson the convicted felon and Nixon operative who has now gone into a captive audience and different type of control entity commonly referred to as the Prison Ministry con.

Colson and those with him are involved in perpetrating yet another sham on prisoners who aren't free to avoid or in some cases forced to accept his organization's "work" under the guise of a religious premise.

I appreciate that you took the time to respond but please in the future try to avoid inventing and injecting incorrect and inaccuracies into what I wrote and stick to what I actually did write.

Once again thanks for responding and hope that others here take the time to review the sections you bring up as those sections as well are important to understand when persons like Chuck Colson (convicted felon) are given space to spread their brand of hatred.

http://alockslee.blogspot.com/ (for the full story)

Chuck Colson, runs the Prison Ministries website and is best known for his Felony conviction, Watergate and Nixon involvements, etc., an interesting fellow to say the least and worth a web search to fully understand just what he is and is involved in today.

TFR