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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
 If the banner was used to bash people over the head (physically or metophorically) i'd say you had a point.
As it was, it was on a wall, and doing no harm to anyone.
Not physically, not spiritually.
It wasn't mounted on a flag pole and burried in somebodys belly, it wasn't quoted in hate speeches against "the non believer" or other races or religions (for some reason I have the image of Malachi from Children Of The Corn in my head shouting "OUTLANDER"  ).
It was removed because somebody could not abide something on a wall of a public building that they didn't agree with.
Was it's message so terrible such effort had to be expended to make sure it was taken down?
Was it so really offensive and untollerable? |
You know what. I've had enough of this, and I give up. I keep discussing this issue because it's something I care about, but I guess I have to agree with Meat when he said that "all people want to do is assume and not really read ,study, and understand."
To quote the
court's decision:
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Since the lawsuit was filed, Plaintiff [Jessica Ahlquist] has had several occasions to speak in public about her views and experiences. At her deposition, Plaintiff described herself as an activist working toward the removal of religious references from government. She also testified that, when she first saw the Prayer Mural, it made her feel "excluded, ostracized and devalued."
Interviewed on a local radio show, Plaintiff confessed that she didn't like the Catholic Church, which she described as hypocritical. When asked about the Prayer, she said that the Prayer was not offensive and that its message was a positive one. She continued, "Yeah, I'm not offended by it, but you can't — can't violate the Constitution." When asked about this statement during her deposition, Plaintiff explained that she was trying to demonstrate a detached, "grown-up" attitude about the dispute, particularly in light of the very personal harassment that she had experienced after publicly expressing her views.
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I'm done with the prayer banner discussion, and the sideshow discussion that we've all seen before. Have at it.