Governor Gregoire’s Slippery Slope to Insanity
The farce Washington governor Christine Gregoire initiated by allowing militant atheists to put up a sign denouncing Christianity next to the Christmas display in the state capitol has reached a new extreme of tastelessness. Active Democrat and enthusiastic Al Gore supporter Fred Phelps would like to put in his 2¢ too. Via Knowledge Is Power, here’s the contribution he wants to make to the Christmas display:
How about it Governor Gregoire? After all, it wouldn’t be politically correct to discriminate against non-Christians, and Phelps’s cult, despite calling itself the Westboro Baptist Church, is anything but Christian.
Phelps isn’t the only one to take up Gregoire on her implicit invitation to ridicule Christmas:
Another Kansas group, the KC Free Thinkers, wants permission to put up a display celebrating a tongue-in-cheek deity named The Flying Spaghetti Monster. In a similar vein, an Olympia man is requesting approval for a celebratory pole in honor of the holiday Festivus, which was invented as part of a “Seinfeld” TV show episode in the late 1990s.
No doubt the objective is to leave only one deity in the end: The State.
On a tip from V the K. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on December 11, 2008 1:50 pm
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So, I guess the first amendment is a “farce” in your view? It’s a public forum.
Of course, stoptheaclu isn’t known for supporting first amendment rights for everyone, just the “right” sorts of people.
She can in fact rule against Phelps because he is not a citizen of Washington state. He on the other hand can get around that technicality by having a citizen of Washington State apply to post the sign.
Actually the question in hand is whether it is a unlimited free speech zone or if it is a zone where you express your holiday greetings or symbols. In the later case the Atheists would be fine if they said have a Joyful Winter Solstice though since it seems more about holiday symbols a diagram representing the Winter Solstice. In any case I do not believe a message of hate, i.e. attack, is appropriate in the setting but I guess that is up to the governor.
oh by the way westley if someone put up a sign ridiculing muslims you wouldn’t be considering it free speech and don’t lie and say you would
That’s not free speak, that is discrimination against Christians. Sounds as if the governor is a coward to me; afraid to take a stand and offend anyone. Take down that sign!