09 September 2010

What pisses me off

You can burn an American flag, and that's OK. That's your freedom of speech on flaming, moronic display there.

You can dunk a cross in a jar of urine, and that's OK. That's art, and it's your freedom of artistic expression.

You can rip a Bible to shreds in front of an audience, and that's OK. Again, your freedom of speech, and who cares if you offend a few million narrow-minded Christians.

But you can't burn a Quran. You can't even threaten to do it. Think of all the people you'd offend.

I wouldn't burn anything in protest - a bra, a flag, a book of any kind.

And I'm not OK with willfully endangering American troops.

But a person is only responsible for their own actions - not for the reactions of others, whether across the street or around the world.

And if you're going to defend people's freedoms of religion, speech and expression, you'd better be across the effing board with it.

Otherwise, you're simply a hypocrite. A filthy, lying hypocrite.

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