http://platosbeard.org/analogies-about-the-wtc-islamic-centre-and-the-adl/ whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises Thu, 17 May 2012 00:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.12 http://platosbeard.org/analogies-about-the-wtc-islamic-centre-and-the-adl/comment-page-1/#comment-38042 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:21:00 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/archives/648#comment-38042 Allogenes, thank you for the correction about the UU. I apologise and will update the post. The mention of Westboro Baptist is not to suggest that they have claimed responsibility for Stonewall. Rather, they are proudly associated with homophobia and are, in name, a Christian church. Ergo, by the current reasoning, a church near the Stonewall site would bring up images of Christianity, which equates to the Westboro Baptists, which equates to homophobia, and hence pain and suffering for victims. ]]> http://platosbeard.org/analogies-about-the-wtc-islamic-centre-and-the-adl/comment-page-1/#comment-38041 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:59:44 +0000 http://platosbeard.org/archives/648#comment-38041 The Unitarian Universalist church (to which I belong) does not identify itself as “Christian;” your analogy would be more appropriate if, rather than a mosque, something like a Bahai temple (which only the uninformed might associate with Islam) were being proposed for Ground Zero. (I’m not sure even Hitchens has had anything to say against us, though I’m sure he could come up with something given his talents.) Also, even Westboro Baptist can’t claim responsibility for Stonewall; the NYPD did not claim to be acting on behalf of any form of religion. ]]>