majority decided that you ought to become a eunuch, you'd agree with
the decision then.
Isn't the tyranny of the majority grand?
larry
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 09:15:52 -0500, brobborb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Obviously, there was enough religious people there to invoke such a law.
>
> Democracy at work. I'm fine with it.
>
> :)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Stanley
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:21 AM
> Subject: Religious oppression in action
>
> Yes, that's right I was forced by laws written in the past to conform to
> someone elses religious views. I went into the local liquor store yesterday
> to get some cokes and some Newcastle Brown Ale, and upon trying to check out
> was informed that I could not buy the beer until after noon (it was
> 11:35am).
>
> This law had to have been written out of "respect" for church going people,
> or as a way to keep people from participating in imbibing while the rest of
> the poor suckers were stuck in church. It would also explain why you cannot
> sell alcohol from 9pm on Christmas Eve until 7am on the day after Christmas.
>
> Get these laws off the books. They are crap and we do not need them. Next
> thing you know, I will not be able to recite the pledge of allegience in
> school without having to, oh wait; or I wont be able to look at the money in
> my wallet without having to be oppressed. and before you bitch that it's
> okay for "god" to be on there, tell me how you feel if it instead said "In
> Loki we trust", or "In Allah we trust". it's bs and everyone knows it.
>
> This gags me, as you can probably tell.
>
> --unrelated to rant above except for the religion bashing -- ;-)
>
> I heard on NPR a story today about an amendment to the KY constitution being
> voted on about the gay marriage thing. They actually interviewed a woman in
> support of banning it who went on and on about how we are not living the way
> god intended us to and that the further we get away from god, the more
> things get screwed up. Has she even studied history? Perhaps we can go back
> to burning people for herasy or for casting spells upon their neighbors.
> Maybe we can go after scientists for claiming that the earth is round. The
> further we move away from "it", the more tolerant of other people society as
> a whole gets. Whatever label you put on it, whatever nice picture you paint
> on it's face you cannot hide the centuries of fallacies and intolerance
> inherent in most religions, especially amd most specifically the "dominant"
> religion here in the US.
>
> Boy, I am in a pissy mood today....
>
>
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