Sorry BMWMan, but your feelings about this situation are what irritates the shit out of me.

When it's your religion that is being mocked you scream persecution. Where was your indignation about Jesus being mocked? Do you think Christians are happy about Jesus being mocked?

Do I agree with their disrespect of all of the religions and races of people that they mock on a daily basis? No, I don't like it at all, but, BUT, it's their right to do so, and I wouldn't want to live in a country where everyone didn't have that right.

You can't enjoy the protection of the 1st amendment and at the same time deny anyone else the same right. Especially denying them this right by killing them. KILLING THEM! WTF.

It boggles the mind.

THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

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