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"I Got Your 'Blasphemous' Right Here ..."
RECEIVED Thu., April 1, 2010
Dear Editor,
Re: “Why Not Just Throw a Tomato?” [News, April 2]: This type of ignorant suppression will have consequences of its own. At some point the feds will restrict funding to entities that violate the First Amendment. At some point people will start taking the state to court over this kind of imposition of religious viewpoint on secular culture. There is little difference in kind between this intervention and what the Islamic mullahs seek: a religious state. If this behavior is allowed to continue, at some point there will be little difference in degree, either. A play being canceled because a Neanderthal thinks it's "blasphemous"? I got your blasphemous right here, pal.
Re: “Why Not Just Throw a Tomato?” [News, April 2]: This type of ignorant suppression will have consequences of its own. At some point the feds will restrict funding to entities that violate the First Amendment. At some point people will start taking the state to court over this kind of imposition of religious viewpoint on secular culture. There is little difference in kind between this intervention and what the Islamic mullahs seek: a religious state. If this behavior is allowed to continue, at some point there will be little difference in degree, either. A play being canceled because a Neanderthal thinks it's "blasphemous"? I got your blasphemous right here, pal.
Hank Alrich