[In response to the following opening thread: Maine Man Thought He'd Face Lesser Charge for Rolling Pig's Head Into Mosque AUBURN, Maine — A Lewiston man accused of rolling a pig's head into a mosque talked to a police officer beforehand and believed he'd be guilty only of littering or improperly disposing of animal parts, according to court documents.]
I read about that when it first happened. He shouldn't be punished severely, because what he did was harmless. When the Clinton administration pays thousands of dollars for '---- Cross' then stuff like this should be treated the same, to be fair.
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And it's pure coincidence that, if you were to set out to devise a method of drastically offending local Muslims with minimal effort and not actually killing anybody, you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything more effective than defacing their place of worship with the blood and tissues of an animal they deem unclean? Maybe if you carved a cross or something into the pig's head first, but that's really just icing on the cake.
Western Christians generally are much less deeply spiritual than Middle East Muslims, and much more inclined to deal with an offense like this in its material sense, rather than its spiritual one. The fact that we cannot comprehend how deeply offensive this is doesn't mean it isn't.
Well, he ought to be charged with some sort of hate crime as he was obviously trying to offend a particular group.
Hadanelith: Exactly.
Definitely he meant "Piss Cross", or "Piss Christ" rather, but CF will automatically put ---- in place of piss if you type it in. Really.
He might mean Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ", a photograph of a small plastic crucifix standing in a beaker of yellow liquid said to be urine. It was part of a show at the Whitney Museum that got publicity at the same time Rudy Giuliani was denouncing the elephant dung painting at the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Sensations" show. Serrano received a grant from an organization that had, in turn, received a NEA grant.
Has anyone noticed that KC never actually said that the guy shouldn't be punished? He said he shouldn't be punished SEVERELY, which implies that he should be punished, nonetheless. His reasoning seems to be that if the government uses your tax dollars to fund the desecration of holy Christian symbols, then other religious desecrations should be treated with a similar amount of (dis)respect. If you think that makes him a fundie then you are pretty fucktarded.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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