Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
By Jove, I think you've got it.It took me a while, but I figured it out. If someone who is not a Christian complains that a nativity scene is an affront to his beliefs, the Christians argue that Christmas is a secular holiday. If a non Christian puts up something that a Christian finds to be an insult to his religious beliefs, then the non Christian is engaging in an insulting and dangerous way, to the detriment of the peace and wellbeing of the community.
It's how the very large Christian majority in this country stay on top of the heap, in our secularized Christian nation.
Most such folk are tolerant enough of other belief systems to allow our type of society of function well enough.
But if you go far enough out of your way to piss them off (as this zombie-nativity asshole did), they will find a way to bitch-slap you, sooner or later.
The zoning regulation(s) at-issue here were merely the mechanism du jour for doing so.
Had it not been zoning laws there would have been something else in its place.
People who piss into the wind usually end-up with nothing more than cold, wet, stinky pants-legs.
And some folks never learn... pissing into the wind again and again and again and again.
Consider it an exercise in practical application of the Boundaries of Free Speech, on the local level.
Rather comical, in some of the aspects of the case.
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