America is terrible

I watched "The Work and the Glory" #2 this week, and I was really upset with how terrible other Americans were to the Mormons back when the church was organized. It was a depressing movie even though it was incredibly good because of how badly people treated the Mormons. It just is not like Americans to be like this.

The reason all the pilgrims immigrated here was because they wanted to get away from a place where they could not have religious freedom. They got what they wanted after many hardships and formed a free country where people could not tell us how and how not to live our lives. It seems over the centuries, we have all forgotten why our ancestors came over here, and we all persecute others in our own way.

The American flag is a reminder of our free and independent country. It is a reminder of what people have gone through so that we can stay free and act/believe the way we want to. Unfortunately, there has been so much persecution of different faiths through the years.

We even have another reminder, the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." But this does not only have to do with laws; as US citizens, we are expected to live by these rules. It is just so inhuman to persecute someone because of how they live. But the terrible thing is, it isn't inhuman, it happens all the time all around the world. No one can seem to accept the fact that everybody is different, and it is not fair to treat others harshly because they think different than they do.