Potential U.S. presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton spoke about gun control at a recent CNN town hall meeting. In the context of school shootings in the U.S. she said, “I believe that we need a more thoughtful conversation, we cannot let a minority of people — and that’s what it is, it is a minority of people — hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people…”
Clinton was referring to the views of gun rights advocates. While school shootings are a serious problem, Hillary Clinton’s choice of words reveals a troubling underlying perspective. No matter what position one holds on gun rights, Clinton’s remark reveals her underlying distaste for the viewpoint of minority groups.
Clinton, who is widely perceived as positioning herself for a run for the presidency of the United States, was promoting her new book “Hard Choices.”
One of the primary purposes of the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution is to protect the rights and opinions of the minority.
While the U.S. Constitution does not protect actions that are taken that violate properly constituted laws, it does protect the views and beliefs of minority groups no matter how offensive they may be to the majority, at least for now.
The United States was established on the principles of a constitutional republic, not a democracy, as most people think of it today. In a democracy, decisions are made by the will of the majority often without respect to the rights of the minority. In a constitutional republic, decisions are made in the best interest of protecting the constitutional rights of all, including the minority viewpoint.
Clinton is advocating that even certain minority viewpoints should not be tolerated. Her ideology is not aligned with a constitutional republic.
The right to worship according to one’s conscience involves a viewpoint. Eventually, some minority religious viewpoints will become the target of government suppression according to Revelation 13.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 3:15.
Every principle of the U.S. constitution shall be repudiated. See Testimonies for the Church, Vol. 5 page 451
If Hillary Clinton becomes the next president of the United States, will she work for restrictions on freedom of thought and expression? The loss of rights and freedoms happens gradually. For religious oppression to occur, there would have to be a restriction on at least certain viewpoints.