better desist or more than my comments would be snipped.
larry
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 10:11:55 -0500, Marlon Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm in favor of Brobbrob becoming a eunuch? Anyone else? What would be
> considered a majority on this list?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 9:46 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: Re: Religious oppression in action
> >
> > Is it? I hope you were being sarcastic. If you were not then if the
> > 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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