religious people can take offense with the law, and even believe themselves to be the special targets of it
myself I think it’s all about business, tourists and the tourist driven economy of the French Quarter
we can call it a bad thing for freedom of speech, but I think the idea that Christians are it’s special targets is overblown
I actually had significant curiosity and interest in the Catholic Church, until I began reading the Catholic posts on FR... not throwing this in Emperor P’s lap, what he said is nothing... I mean the volumes and volumes and volumes of Catholic posts, individual posts pages long saying who is right and who is wrong and how you are a heretic because you believe this and I am right because I believe that and who’s a real Catholic and who isn’t, they spend so much time sinking knives into each others backs, they barely have time to take a stab at an occasional Protestant. How freaking disappointing! If all that energy were spent on bicycles and treadmills attached to electrical generators, not only could you power a city, but people would start wondering what was going on in the Catholic Church, that was making all its members look like Jack LaLanne.
AFA NO is concerned... It’s simply another instance of what has become an accepted fact: Where Christians gather, the law surrounds them with the night sticks pointing inward... but where the Muslims, or the LGBT, or the OWSers, or the Black Panthers are, the law surrounds them with the night sticks pointing outward.
The battle lines are drawn... But send no troops to NO... it’s a town that has always been a sideshow, and likewise any effort to take issue with them, would become a sideshow of a sideshow. There are far bigger fish to fry, with the whole country marching towards societal collapse... and then NO will be just one Category 5 away from being the nicest little fishing camp that you ever saw.
If you have not studied the national stories closely for a number of years now, you may not realize that there is a huge war on Christianity right here in America, all across the country. I can cite you countless stories--besides the Obamacare assault on religious freedom--of Christians being denied their right to free speech, to gather for Bible study, to conduct their businesses as they see fit, etc. It is real, and it's going to only get worse as the number of days grows shorter.