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#27 Mar 11 2010 at 2:23 PM Rating: Good
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johnnny the Silent wrote:
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I think they do have the right to protest there, and hope that the Supreme Court upholds it. I also believe those ex-military bikers have the right to stand in front of them and walk towards them with very large sticks, accidentally trampling them in the process should they fail to yield.


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#28 Mar 11 2010 at 6:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
A funeral is for all intents and purposes a religious ceremony, various athiest exceptions aside. If nothing else they should be able to get them on some sort of interference with freedom to express religious beliefs thing. Pretty clear precidence on that one that if your religion and some other religion considetr the same spot holy and you don't play well together, you schedule different days.


Unfortunately, the precedent the other way has already been established. For the last decade or so, religious events scheduled on public land (like those pesky ones with big cross like monuments which we have around where I live) have been successfully "attended" by groups of atheists who have been determined to have the legal right to do whatever they want at the same time and place. It's kinda hard to argue that an Easter Mass can be disrupted, but not a funeral. At least not with the argument you are using...
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#29 Mar 12 2010 at 2:59 AM Rating: Good
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You'd think they could rig up some excuse to arrest these protesters under the general "disturbing the peace" laws or something. Do it early enough to prevent them from disrupting the ceremony and increase the town's coffers from the bail they'd post. Easy peasy.

Beyond that, tit-for-tat at their church service often enough would perhaps eventually convince them to cease and desist.

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#30 Mar 12 2010 at 7:55 AM Rating: Good
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I think filing a suit against one of their higher level members for inappropriate touching of an altar boy would be sufficient. With sufficient media coverage you could **** their whole enterprise.
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#31 Mar 12 2010 at 9:28 AM Rating: Excellent
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I think filing a suit against one of their higher level members for inappropriate touching of an altar boy would be sufficient. With sufficient media coverage you could @#%^ their whole enterprise.


1. Fundies don't have altar boys.

2. They're all part of one big extended family. I don't think lolincest is something they'd take to the media.

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#32 Mar 12 2010 at 10:07 AM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Timelordwho wrote:
I think filing a suit against one of their higher level members for inappropriate touching of an altar boy would be sufficient. With sufficient media coverage you could @#%^ their whole enterprise.


1. Fundies don't have altar boys.

2. They're all part of one big extended family. I don't think lolincest is something they'd take to the media.



Then the equivalent.

No, you bring it to the media. 87/13 odds They will gobble the story up with relatively little fact checking.
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#33 Mar 12 2010 at 10:14 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah, I'm not sure it's a penetrable system, that's all I'm saying. They'd close ranks until the story died and call it persecution - which it would be, actually.

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#34 Mar 12 2010 at 10:26 AM Rating: Good
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It looks very penetrable to me, at least. Dogmatists are routinely thrown under the bus if they aren't in the inner circle of leadership operations. Typically a beloved local member isn't a good fit either, but has routinely been successful. It's just a matter of knowing where to hit. Essentially an ideal target is among the middle management echelon.

If you look at the breakdown of any other similar organizational system, theological or otherwise, this is how you start.

Now, I'm not saying that one should ultimately make stuff up, but that with a bit of investigative journalism, I would put pretty good odds to finding at least one hit on the radar, so to speak.
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