Atheist group at odds with ethnic festivals

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71. Your analogy sucks because this isn't at all like going a very tiny amount...

...over some arbitrary limit. It's more like someone using a questionable tax dodge or finding a debatable loophole in a law to circumvent the intended purpose of the law.

There's a law against charging people different amounts of money for the same thing based on religion. With the clear intent of the discount structure being to "encourage" attendance at religious services, there mere fact that it's technically possible to kill time some other way doesn't change the fact that the need to kill time some other way if you want that discount exists only because someone is trying to skirt the edges of the law (we'll see what the court thinks about how successful they've been) and provide a bonus for believers, and encouragement for non-believers to do what the believers do.

You'd recognize the touch of sleaziness here if you weren't inclined to see getting people into church as a wonderful, wholesome, helpful thing -- regardless of the tactics used.