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In reply to the discussion: Sorry, you don't coddle religious fanatics of any stripe. [View all]LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)for Catholic leaders to call for a ban on abortion and birth control, and to blame their pedophilia problem on gays. It's perfectly legal to hold up "God Hates Fags" signs. It's perfectly legal for a church to extort 10% of its members' income, while paying not a dime in taxes and pushing through theocratic laws. Lots of things are perfectly legal and still meet the criteria for harmful extremism. We still condemn it as harmful extremism though, and work to rid society of it.
It's perfectly possible to be an extremist and push for a theocracy, and try to dictate what we can and cannot say, without being Muslim. Jones wants a war with the brown people because he thinks he's got the better invisible friend. He's doing everything he can to provoke one, and we're giving him all the media assistance he needs to make it work. If that's not a religious extremist attempting to dictate our thoughts and actions, I don't know what is. Why is that OK? How is that OK?