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Old 09-14-2024, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
If the Villages allows the crosses and makes the exception, it opens up the possibility that anyone against it, will retaliate by putting up religious symbols that are known to be offensive.

The pagan symbol. The Church of Satan symbol. The Muslim symbol. For those antisemites in the room, the Star of David. Buddha, faeries, a yin/yang statuette, shinto, confuscian, the swastika (which was originally a religious symbol), the baha'i faith symbol, or hey how about the ancient Egyptian god Min, who is most appropriately depicted as having a HUGE phallus?

If you root for the white crosses, you MUST also root for all the above - and more. If you have a problem with any of the above, then you must root against the white crosses.

"Religious freedom" applies to all religions. It's either allowed to be expressed on the lawn, or it isn't.
That is not a possibility. That is a guarantee. I've seen it mentioned in The Online Paper That Shall Not Be Named. And I am sure that inevitability is on the collective minds of the powers-that-be in TV. The last thing they'd want is for word to get out that The Villages allows satanic symbols, pentagrams, swastikas, etc. to be freely displayed. Talk about a hit in the ol' pocketbook if that happens. It is yet another reason for those powers to draw this out as long as possible.

There are always those among us who insist on defining their "freedoms" by the lowest common denominator.