Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Anyone notice some of the strongly Anti-RKBA people are also very anti-free speech in GD. [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)who made jokes about Joe Smith, or drew pictures of him. Baptizing people after they are dead is nowhere as heinous as ISIS' policy of "convert or die" to Arab Christians and the Armenian genocide was a lot more recent than the Crusades (never mind Muslims "converted or die" missionary work snuffed out indigenous religions in the ME and N Africa like the Roman Church in Europe. Sorry, false equivalence. It is hypocritical to condemn these people, as loathsome as they might be, while calling the piss Christ "art".
My Mormon relatives (my parents were mixed marriage) told me the best Mormon jokes. They did, however, wipe out a wagon train. Attacks by aboriginals were rare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_massacre
they might be zealots, but the 1A is meant to protect views we don't like. Calls for "hate speech laws" and blasphemy laws like Canada is a 1A issue, illiberal and unAmerican.
True, it isn't a 2A issue, but it is a 1A issue.