OK to Offend Christians — again
Posted on April 1, 2007
Homosexuals, blacks and Muslims must not even be made “uncomfortable” by anything that someone else does or says but no such rules apply to Christians, apparently. The Roger Smith Hotel in NYC planned a display during Holy Week which featured a sculpture of a naked Jesus with genitals displayed. It was intended to provoke and it did. A prominent Catholic organization called for a boycott of the hotel as a result. So the hotel backed off.
Did Leftists applaud the banning of such an “insensitive” display and rejoice that Catholics can now feel “comfortable” to enter the hotel? No way! They frothed at the mouth about it and called the boycott letter “hate speech”!
Gateway Pundit has the details.
There’s a picture of the “sculpture” here
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I find it amazing that even though 80% of the US call themselves Christian, they still consider themselves a persecuted minority. I don’t recall the ACLU supporting any boycott of the Muhammad cartoons in 2005.
A few things for fringe extremists on both sides to remember:
1. No one has the right to not be offended. In other words, free
speech protects what we agree with, and what we DON’T agree with.
2. Expressions of disapproval, whether left of right or right of
left, are also protected forms of free speech–and both the left
AND the right assiduously practice their constitutional right to
take offense at the most trivial things.
3. Mockery is also a protected form of free speech, and ANY public
figure or institution is an open target for it, religions included.
So, the pious of ALL religions need to just suck it up and grow
a thick skin whenever they think they’re being mocked.
The defining difference:
Nobody involved with the wish to display this abomination was arrested.
Instead, an agreement was reached between dissenting opinions.
Has nothing to do with the First Amendment then.
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