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    What's acceptable free speech?

    The Revd Phelps and his loonly followers carry placards saying 'God hates fags' and (rightly, in my opinion) there is an outrage.

    Meanwhile, in Dublin, participants in a gay pride parade carry posters referring to the founder of Christianity, who Christians believe to be God, as "a faggot" and this fact is never mentioned in the reports of this event.

    I think that if homosexuals expect mainstream religious people to condemn the extremes, the homosexual community ought to do religious people the same courteosy. The Oranger Order and rightly held to account when terrorists carry banners at their parades.

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    When was this? I heard it happened in belfast, but in dublin?
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    Re: What's acceptable free speech?

    Quote Originally Posted by dubsthcentralboy
    The Revd Phelps and his loonly followers carry placards saying 'God hates fags' and (rightly, in my opinion) there is an outrage.

    Meanwhile, in Dublin, participants in a gay pride parade carry posters referring to the founder of Christianity, who Christians believe to be God, as "a faggot" and this fact is never mentioned in the reports of this event.

    I think that if homosexuals expect mainstream religious people to condemn the extremes, the homosexual community ought to do religious people the same courteosy. The Oranger Order and rightly held to account when terrorists carry banners at their parades.
    Let them say what ever they like, they are only displaying just how moronic they are.
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    He did prance around with 12 men!

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    Funny how it's fashionable to disrespect a religion where people don't get angry. Try drawing a artoon of the Prophet Mohammed and see what happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dubsthcentralboy
    Funny how it's fashionable to disrespect a religion where people don't get angry. Try drawing a artoon of the Prophet Mohammed and see what happens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dubsthcentralboy
    Funny how it's fashionable to disrespect a religion where people don't get angry. Try drawing a artoon of the Prophet Mohammed and see what happens.
    You never did answer my questions on your botched hatchet job of a thread based on selecting a few headlines and then attacking Islam. Anyway, while the westbury baptist church and their picketing of funerals are grossly offensive I believe they are given far too much attention. They are the invention of a mentally disturbed demogogue who should be ignored.
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