Showing posts with label stealing communion cracker. Show all posts
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Andrew Sullivan: Okay to riddicule Mohammad, but don't touch my communion cracker

Andrew Sullivan has got himself worked up (although I usually agree with him about things, we must admit he gets pretty easily worked up) about PZ Myers' plan to publicly "defile" a communion cracker.

Sullivan, the blogger who castigated the European press for not publishing cartoons with the prophet Mohammad because it offended Muslims, says this about Myers' plan:

Calling the Holy Eucharist a "goddamned cracker" isn't about free speech; it's really about some baseline civility.


Really? Free speech has to be about more than just protecting ridicule of the other guy's religion. I'll agree Myers is being crude and intentionally offensive...but would still argue it's his right.

It's not like he's burning people at the stake or anything.