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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-02-06 16:14:56
subject: Re: Bush Administration punks out on cartoons

From: "Gary Britt" 

Maybe Christians in this country should be treated with the same respect
and bend over backwards tolerance that we afford Jews, Muslims, and the
average Satanist.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:43e4ce12$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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
> news:43e48946$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >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
news:43e3fef9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> 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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