Does Religious Liberty Allow Trunks to Block a Highway Forever


Details of the truck blockade in Eastern Canada has not been covered in detail in the U.S. The Christian press, however, has lots of information about the religion involved. In the link, a trucker believes he is carrying out Jesus' wishes by continuing to block the highway. The issue given in anti-mandatory vaccine. Behind it all is the belief there are instructions from Jesus. 

In all the hype by some Christians about "religious liberty" there have never been boundaries as to how far the point can be pushed. The Christians blocking the highway seem to believe they fall inside an acceptable level of protest. Apparently, Canadian law enforcement is able to move traffic past at least some of the protests. My friend from ND who drives a regular run to Winnepeg passes through a blockade area daily. 

We all know political protests are part of politics and will always be there. The left has done more of it than the right. We only need remember invasion of nuclear facilities and protests on college campuses. 

To me, Christian use of "religious liberty" is something a little different. There seems no boundary to such claims. An unending number of religions can use this--there is even an unending variety of Christians. 

Invoking Jesus into protests does change the dynamic. There was a boundary, for example, to the anti-Vietnam War protests. Not everyone everywhere was part of the anti war political movement. Anyone, so it seems, can claim Jesus told them to park a truck on the highway in Canada.

I've read only a small minority of Canadian truckers are part of the protest. To push the politics of an entire country in one direction or another takes a lot of unity which doesn't seem to be there. One can only hope Jesus tells the protesting truckers to get into their trucks and drive on.

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