PING! Please disseminate through Catholic ping list.
I think you may well be right.
This is what our “tolerance” gets us, folks.
It just eggs these bastards on.
This is a great idea, however it will be quite the trick to actually get the Attorney General to initiate a prosecution.
And the illustrious Professor Myers would welcome such a prosecution because it would obtain him some major props from his fellow anti-Christian/anti-American scumbags.
Can’t wait for Mr. Brave Professor to conduct a comparable stunt against Islam.
If he hasn’t commited one yet, by soliciting help in obtaining the Eucharist, then if he actually gets the Eucharist and does what he has threatened to do to it - and puts up the evidence of what he’s done on YouTube, or whatever, then by all means he should be charged with a hate crime, in my opinion.
Notwithstanding the definition of “hate crime”, let’s just accept this as a sacrilige. If we qua Catholics pursued this line, we would be acknowledging its supremacy and we later would be charged as purveyors of hate if we followed such hateful acts as opposing homosexuality or abortion or, in the not too distant future, murder. Surely, there is some “religious” sect out there (e.g. Atheists?) that would sue that we are “hate mongers” because we dis-agree with their ‘theological’ beliefs. To seek government protection against insults (sacrilige) is to buy into government control of theology.
Seriously though, I have met a guy who claims to be the gentleman in question on a few blogs. He is a total nut job, and will use your posts as a badge of honor.
Pray for his soul. He is very anti Christian (in n odd way he doesn't go against other religions), and not very good at logical debate.
“Real property” does not include consumables.
The question now is, is this criminal solicitation and attempted conspiracy to commit a hate crime across state lines? I'm no lawyer, but I can read the statutes.
Thought crime requires Thought Police. This "hate crime" thing can turn and bite you.
**Has Professor Myers engaged in a hate crime?**
I would say he had engaged in a hate crime.
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"In addition to the truth of the doctrine of evolution, indeed, one of its greatest merits in my eyes, is the fact that it occupies a position of complete and irreconcilable antagonism to that vigorous and consistent enemy of the highest intellectual, moral, and social life of mankind--the Catholic Church."A response from The Catholic League:- T.H Huxley, Darwiniana.
"The Myers blog can be accessed from the university’s website. The university has a policy statement on this issue which says that the ‘Contents of all electronic pages must be consistent with University of Minnesota policies, local, state and federal laws.’ One of the school’s policies, ‘Code of Conduct,’ says that ‘When dealing with others,’ faculty et al. must be ‘respectful, fair and civil.’ Accordingly, we are contacting the President and the Board of Regents to see what they are going to do about this matter. Because the university is a state institution, we are also contacting the Minnesota legislature."