>>>>Sure. They can say whatever they like at their 'church'.
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>>>I said the same about invading public space with Christmas, but was overruled. So you can't have it both ways.
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>>"Merry Christmas" and Christmas trees are not designed to cause great emotional distress to anyone. If they do cause great emotional distress I suggest the person (persons) undergoing such distress jump under a speeding bus and end it all.
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>>These bas+urds involved in the case at hand are intentionally doing emotional harm.
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>Hey that's a good point - which makes me think of something.... it's actually possible to sue someone for "emotional distress"
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/emotional+distress - perhaps someone will take up the cause.
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>>>They should be tried under some murky law about hate speech or other verbal crime thing.
I think that would be a very effective way to handle it. Since the deceased and their families are not public persons, I think they could find a good lawyer who could bankrupt the whackjobs. One of the tactics used very effectively against the Klan was exactly this.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
