Limits on rights?

Pastor Matthew Best
3 min readApr 6, 2021

Should we accept limitations on our rights? Should there be limitations on some rights and not on others? What is the extent of such limitations?

These are the fundamental questions that haven’t been specifically voiced, but are the actual questions. These are the questions that rise up every time there is a discussion about gun control, speech, the freedom of assembly through protest, and voting rights.

As a society, we aren’t consistent with how we approach these things. But there are limitations on each of these. And there is plenty of hypocrisy too. Part of this is due…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.