Glenn Beck and his Association of SPF-500 users can have their “rally” on the anniversary and in the same place as Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” yet demand any member of an entire religious faith cannot build on the site of an abandoned Burlington Coat Factory.
It always seems to be this way.
If only there was an acronym for it.




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I like the name of the person who submitted the acronym to the Urban Dictionary, too.
Simple, it is called religious dictatorship or religious bigotry. It is what the Pilgrims, who settled in Massachusetts in 1620 were trying to get away from in England, which was then being run by advocates of the Church of England, the Anglicans. These 21st century right-wing bullies are all basically English Tories, they would fit right into any medieval society…
I drove by the memorial at the site of the Murrah building destroyed by McVeigh, killing 168 Americans and damaging or destroying 324 other buildings in a 16 block radius. Lots of Christian churches around there but no protesters.
No Catholic Churches Next to Schools!
I bet you can find a synagogues near Deir Yassin and a Mormon temples near Mountain Meadow, too. These people are all so blindly tribal.
Harry Reid needs to seek religious guidance on his statement, from the Elders of his Faith, who can remind him about the Mountain Meadow Massacre, Nauvoo, and other places and times the LDS church was driven out of communities who didn’t like their erected temples. It’s no different, not even a little bit — except of course that Park51 is no mosque.
It’s pavlovian.
Actually, they were trying to find a place where they could discriminate against everyone else’s churches. Wanting religious freedom, not so much. (The children and grandchildren of the pilgrims persecuted Baptists and Quakers.)
Are those the same Elders that guide Glenn Beck?
Dream on dude. And put a coat on it, while you’re at it.
Salt Lake City passed an ordinance that prohibits any other church in the area around the Mormon Temple. Can’t have any church that may have teh gay people attending in sight of the self righteous faithful.
First: GAH! My eyes, my eyes…
Second: I could say how disgusted I am but that seems to be my permanent state of being anymore. So, it’s more like same old, same old.
These righties have really found a clever way to practice their facist entitlement routines, haven’t they?
I read on Wonkette the other week something about some weird (redundant) Tea Party woman who ran for office in the midwest. She was about to be busted for practising law without a license. But hey: she’s a Tea Partier, so she compared herself to Rosa Parks.
Shakes head… face to palm… IOKIYATP.
This one is sooo easy; there either is a First Amendment or there ain’t one, so this just further exposes any “sworn to uphold the constitution” politician as the phony ‘do anything to get (re)elected (Reid)’ piece of crap they are.
Maybe the elders in Salt Lake City did too much LDS…Fried their brains. heh
After “free speech zones,” seemed like it was another of those anachronistic amendments, i.e. 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 14th, 18th…
It’s called “walk the walk.”
After all the huffing and puffing about the mosque, there shouldn’t even be a word about speaking in one location or another.
Preach tolerance, live it. don’t preach it and then complain about it.
Otherwise, people might think your principle is “support anything that futhers my cause and oppose any action that doesn’t.” But, then, that would put you in with about 98% of the population.
(chuckles) Loved the lolGlenn!
Glenn Beck will soon be giving his “I Have A Cream In My Pants Speech,” assisted by his blackboard and his caveman chalk drawings.