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AS a presumably rational adult you really shouldn't be struggling this hard.
Irrespective of free speech, the catholic school's sermonizing was intolerant. It's that simple. By the reaction it got it was also unexpected.
To avoid admitting it, you first said I said things I haven't, inferred stuff I do not infer, then you seem to think hollering 'free speech' at it will make it not what it is it. It wonât.
Then to cap it all, you've said objecting to intolerance like that is itself being intolerant. All of which range from plain wrong to ridiculous.
The catholic church school preached their intolerant beliefs in a verbally abusive manner at their pupils and it back fired. Children got exttremely upset and objected to it.
Those catholic preachers responsible for making the offensive remarks later sounded like they suddenly became more aware of how offensive they'd been and were thinking twice about doing it again. Those kind of realizations change such institutions and drag them out of the dark ages where they tend to unthinkingly languish. No need for you to start making up nonsense about me wanting things made illegal.
Bigoted discriminatory intolerant speech is still bigoted discriminatory intolerant speech whether it is made freely as part of religion and beliefs, or however else it is dispensed. To say objecting to it is itself being intolerant as you have, is plainly absurd.
1) As I've already explained two or three times, it doesn't matter if you said ILLEGAL, i simply used that thread as an example to Free thinker off the top of my head to make a point in this thread.
You DID imply/state for a fact that the school shouldn't be allowed to do what it did.. don't lie stu.
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A mandatory assembly is not a meeting where people are taking part of their own free will. If the catholic church can do that, then so should PETA and the KKK, when they too can be resisted by school children obliged to attend.
what are you saying right here stewie? To me it appears you are saying that the catholic school SHOULD NOT have been able to call that assembly.
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...As far as I am aware, KKK cannot force or oblige anyone to attend a meeting to hear their hateful bigoted preaching. Apparently the catholic church thought in De Salle school they could mandate people. So the -choice- thing is not at all irrelevant.
I don't recall anywhere saying the school should not be able to call mandatory meetings. I do recall implying they apparently use them to verbally in this case, insult and abuse children and their classmates and that it should not be allowed in a school, especially by those who are supposed to be fulfilling a role as teachers....
Well they can mandate them stu, and they can state their beliefs whether they are offensive or not, at
their school. And who is really the one sensationalizing and exaggerating what happened? They didn't abuse anyone, they stated their position, and it wasn't personal. Aren't the students also obligated to hear the church out (not saying they can't disagree appropriately).. seeing as they attend
their school and all?
Now for the semantics. Here is the source of our disagreement in this thread, what is and isn't tolerant. I read this somewhere but I'm probably not reproducing it verbatim.. here is the way I view the it:
tolerant: acknowledging that every legal citizen of legal age, and every private establishment are afforded the same exact Constitutional rights which you are.
intolerant: any
action, attempted action, or threat made to undermine or deny any or all of the aforementioned rights.
i'll give you some examples.
A bar owner sees a group of young men walk in with shaved heads and various nazi tattoos and assumes they are skin heads.. he tells them to leave. Is he being intolerant? In my opinion NO, they are on his property and as the property owner he can allow whoever he wishes. Judging by your posts you would have to consider this intolerant because since the bar is open to the public, he is discriminating. But what rights of theirs is the owner violating, they don't have a right to be on HIS property.
An atheist walks into a Jewish Temple and attempts to disrupt prayer, by shouting down the rabbi. he is being intolerant because he is attempting to undermine their rights, on their property.
A married couple has plans to go out for the night and are looking for a babysitter. They meet a black guy and a white girl, they hire the white girl and tell the black guy it is because they don't trust black people. lol are they being intolerant. i don't think so, their kid, their decision.
The state of California decides to pass a law increasing taxes on only Mexican Americans, is that intolerant. it is, because the legislative body is legalizing inequality, an obvious violation of the 14th Amendment.
A public golf course refuses to allow a group of women onto the course, intolerant? yes because public property belongs to the community and the public cannot distinguish or discriminate between legal citizens of legal age without being intolerant to other legal citizens of legal age.
If you think about this a bit, I bet it will make sense. you can't tell a private establishment, like the bar in my first example, that he can't discriminate without violating his rights. however a govt, because they write the laws, can't discriminate without violating
someone's rights. So I don't see how the Church's views can be considered intolerant at their own school. they weren't taking away anyone's rights or threatening to.. they were just stating their beliefs.
Like I said this is the way I view things, and I'm pretty sure I am consistent in it.