re: #43 Thanos

Another Hate Church in the News

[Link: www.splcenter.org…]

The interesting part about that story for me is that the ACLU has taken up the defense of families who want to send their kids to school wearing T-shirts that say “Islam Is of the Devil”.

Thought experiment: A group of Stormfront parents send their kids to school with T-shirts reading “Jews Are a Plague on Society”. Would the ACLU defend them? Unfortunately I think it would be a tossup. Depending on how many innocuous crosses the ACLU had been able to force a county to remove from its seals that month, they might, or they might not.

Now, another thought experiment: A bunch of harmless, non-hate-filled Christians send their kids to school with T-shirts saying “Jesus Loves You”. Would the ACLU defend their right to wear such clothing? I think the answer is plain. No. Fucking. Way. In. Hell.

So, stirring up hate against Islam in schools is a right the ACLU will fight for. Maligning Judaism in the same way? We’d have to see about that. (Remember Skokie.) But saying something nice about Jesus - fuggedaboudit.

Could someone please explain the ACLU’s logic to me? I’m not drunk or stoned enough to get it.