No, it's brilliant! It's like how the City of New York prevented a massive Ku Klux Klan rally...
By citing a city ordinance that said masks can't be worn in a march.
They can sidestep weighing in on what they think, and they can avoid violating the First Amendment, and they still take the wind out of the sails on these guys.
I'm not so sure about the tactic; I sure don't approve of book-burning (nasty connotations + air pollution--phooey!), but I don't generally approve of using garden-variety ordinances to impede freedom of speech. I wouldn't want to cheer for this tactic just because it's currently being used against a group I disagree with.
That being said, this cracked me up:
Breedlove said a city fire inspector suggested shredding the offending material, but Breedlove said that wouldn't seem biblical.
If I ever lead a holy-roller anti-pop-culture movement, we are SO going to have mass document shreddings!
OK, I probably shouldn't be laughing at the "light candles to symbolically 'burn' the material" line, but with my boundaries relaxed from over-tiredness... yeah, I'm laughing.
Hah. While I am very much in favor of public book burnings (it's their own property, so the author gets paid anyway) as an infallible idiocy detector (nothing says "Hi! We're religious nutcases! Please throw things at us!" like a good book bonfire), this is just too delicous.
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By citing a city ordinance that said masks can't be worn in a march.
They can sidestep weighing in on what they think, and they can avoid violating the First Amendment, and they still take the wind out of the sails on these guys.
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That being said, this cracked me up:
Breedlove said a city fire inspector suggested shredding the offending material, but Breedlove said that wouldn't seem biblical.
If I ever lead a holy-roller anti-pop-culture movement, we are SO going to have mass document shreddings!
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