Confused Ideas of Religious Liberty
By Editor
SOME people have queer ideas of what constitutes religious liberty. Here in California the good people are trying to get a law that will compel all people to keep Sunday, even though some conscientiously keep another day; yet the Sunday people do not see in that any infringement upon religious liberty. And now comes the Christian Church News, and claims that a constitutional amendment prohibiting the "manufacture, gift, or sale of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors, except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes," is oppressive because it does not provide for the use of intoxicating wine at communion. The editor says: "It is clearly an infringement upon religious liberty, and an attempt to set aside the conscientious convictions of men." All of which causes us to conclude that with very many people "religious liberty" means liberty for themselves to do as they please, and compulsion for others to do likewise.