From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Maybe religious types should just chill out and worry about saving their
own souls and let god handle the rest


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>I wish the State Department would weigh in on Crucifixes Upside Down In A
> Jar Of Urine, but then Christians don't kill people and blow things up and
> demonstrate in the streets with machine guns because of blasphemy directed
> at them.
>
> Maybe the Christians should take a lesson from the Muslims and be more
> demanding of respect?
>
> The Danish should tell these Muslims that the cartoons are ART, and that
> makes it all OK.  At least calling crucifixes in urine or paintings of the
> Blessed Virgin covered in shit ART made all the New York liberals holler
> censorship and where's the tolerance for the ART's, when a few Christians
> had the nerve to complain without machine guns.
>
> Gary
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Yea, I should have been less fuzzy (that neb... word is too big for me
> Rich
>> ) I didn't mean really that I found their posturing all that much
> better,
>> but at least there was a bit more than what we were basing our opinions
> on.
>>  at
>> all>
>>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:43e3fbdb{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >
>> > "Mark"  wrote in message
> news:43e3f13d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >>
>> >> "Rich Gauszka" 
wrote in message
>> >> news:43e3abac{at}w3.nls.net...
>> >>> You don't have to fire him - just assign him to a
newly created post
> in
>> >>> Shemya ( Aleutian Islands ). The rest will get the hint
>> >>
>> >> 
>> >>
>> >> BTW, it seems to be considerably more in depth position
than the media
> is
>> >> reporting:
>> >>
> http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2006_01_29-2006_02_04.shtml#1139011220
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I'm sorry I would use 'nebulous' rather than 'in depth' for what the
>> > spokesman from State uttered.. From your link
>> >
>> > "Our response is to say that while we certainly don't agree with,
> support,
>> > or in some cases, we condemn the views that are aired in public that
>> > are
>> > published in media organizations around the world, we, at the same
>> > time,
>> > defend the right of those individuals to express their views. For us,
>> > freedom of expression is at the core of our democracy and it is
> something
>> > that we have shed blood and treasure around the world to defend and we
>> > will continue to do so. That said, there are other aspects to
>> > democracy,
>> > our democracy - democracies around the world - and that is to promote
>> > understanding, to promote respect for minority rights, to try to
>> > appreciate the differences that may exist among us."
>> >
>> >
>>
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