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Larry Caldwell

In article m,
(Brandon McCombs) says...
Evan Platt wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:52:28 -0500, "HeyBub"
wrote:

Washington woman gets complaint from HOA that she has too many chickens in
her yard (like more than zero).

Woman registers her displeasure by honking her horn repeatedly, a dawn
(since there are no more roosters), in front of HOA's president's house.

When arrested, woman claims horn-honking is an exercise in free speech.

Convicted anyway.

Obviously the judge is in the pocket of the HOA.

Your freedom of anything ends when it interferes with someone elses
freedom of anything.

You would freedom of anything ends when it interferes with someone
else's freedom of anything but there is at least one exception to this
theory:

Anti-religious nuts believe they can use the "separation of church and
state" interpretation to cause other people to no longer have a freedom
of religion in certain situations (i.e. any where not in the privacy of
your home). The sad thing is that many of them are winning their battle
(or maybe others are just caving so a win by forfeit). So we have
freedom of no religion impinging on the rights of others to have a
freedom of religion and no one thinks that double standard needs to stop
so in that case one freedom hasn't ended when it has interfered with
another freedom.

Freedom OF religion includes freedom FROM religion. How would you feel
if a judge made you sacrifice a chicken to the Loa before testifying in
court? Or a teacher started each day by having your children channel
the spirits?

Certainly a government sponsored religion would have real benefits for
Christians. For instance, children could be taught that the idea of
people going to heaven when they die is a corruption brought back by the
crusaders from Islam. The Bible clearly states that the dead sleep
until the resurrection. Children need to be taught that Heaven is a
childish fairy tale, like Santa Claus. Just two or three generations of
government religion and Heaven would be extinct. There are those who
think the loss of personal freedom would be worth it if it would purify
the faith and stamp out heresy.

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