Re: [Assam] re: conversion & supreme court

[KJDeka]

In a message dated 9/3/03 5:27:42 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

<<kamal deka took off from this and made some
sweeping remarks on democracy.>>

Does that constitute the rebuttal? I am going to resign to the fact that people have different levels of comprehension with different plane of thought.

I was referring to SC's proposition of law in 1977, when Christian missionaries approached the SC against the anti-conversion legislation of MP and Orissa. It threw out all their contentions based on one fact........no right can be unfettered. The court laid down the following fact:

1) While Article 25 gives every person the right to freely profess, practice and propagate his religion, it does not include the right to convert another, since every person has freedom of conscience guaranteed by the same provision.

2) Freedom of conscience indicates that every person has the liberty to pursue the faith of his choice and not be converted to another religion by means of FORCE, FRAUD, INDUCEMENT or ALLUREMENT.

Where did I go wrong, when I made the so called "sweeping remark?" Is there any "total freedom" in any democracy? And I still assert that there exists none. Do people have the freedom to break the laws in a democratic country?

KJD.