[ SECRET POST #2148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2148 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Christian Free speach VS Atheist free speach-Both lost

[diet_poison]

Just curious, what would you say if someone were dressed in religious garb in a park, or talking about religion to someone in a park?

I'm not disagreeing with you, but curious. I feel that people should be able to utilize public space as they see fit as long as they're not harming people. (The government shouldn't be putting it up though, and I also agree about the display because it's monopolizing that space over a long period of time, and agree with the people who say it's dumb that in general people aren't as tolerant of other religions having the same kind of speech)

Re: Christian Free speach VS Atheist free speach-Both lost

[(Anonymous)]

Well as you say, it comes down to whether or not they're harming people. If they're standing there preaching that's fine, if annoying, but if they're harassing people it becomes problematic. It may be a thin line, but I would imagine it's rare for the police to be called on such a person unless they're really seen as a threat. Plus I don't think anyone listening would see a mobile individual preaching in a public park as someone who was endorsed by a government official. With a semi-permanent nativity scene, I imagine at some point they had to get licenses, and at some point a municipal bureaucrat looked at their applications and said "Ah yes, this blatantly religious symbol is a perfectly acceptable use of public land!" and stamped it along. So, y'know, iffy in terms of separation of church and state.

The main difference in my mind, though, is that in the random preaching person situation someone (ie, an atheist, or a person of a different religion, or someone of the same religion who doesn't think you should stand around in public proselytizing) has a much better shot at directly confronting them (which is also free speech). An atheist group wanting to challenge nativity scenes would have to through a whole process to put up billboards etc, and since they are a minority class (in that there's definitely fewer of them than there are religious people) that people still aren't all that fond of, it's harder for them to protest. And when they do (as happened in the above story), they end up in court.