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Old Sep 26, 2006, 11:33 pm
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Originally Posted by cme2c
Regarding the previous posts about wearing a swastika to a synagogue... I agree that this is similar, but from a common sense perspective, not a civil rights perspective.
No, that wasn't a good analogy. Wearing a swastika to a synagogue might be analogous to wearing a badge with Bin Ladens face to a TSA checkpoint (wearing a symbol indicating support of a group of mass murderers in the face of people who relate to the victims). Going into a church with a sign calling the Pope a fool, or going to a synagogue with a banner calling the Rabbi a jerk, that is more analogous.

But even in those examples, the church or synagogue have more right to block you than the TSA did, since they are private institutions, rather than government employees in a public space.
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