Originally Posted by sid

irritating and unessesary, also pretty much impossible to enforce. It just annoys me that the government would even consider this

Originally Posted by NoCheerios

Unnecessary? Let's just take the Westboro Baptist Church, as stated previously. Sure, they're not acting on their profane racism and hatred(and selectively choosing certain parts of Biblic contradictions, but that aside), they're still REALLY messing with people's lives. An example would be how they protested homosexuality IN GENERAL outside of the funeral of a US soldier who was KIA, that's just plain fucked up.

More importantly, they could be spurring people to act on racist ideals(i.e. KKK).

Ignorance is bad, but it's worse when people act on it. Don't be that person, sid.

Originally Posted by Gorman

This just shows how fucked some of America's society is that they feel they need laws like this.

I know the term "common knowledge" and "good sense" get thrown around a lot, but really it should be both that you don't walk around using offensive words.



That is a different issue. You have to understand that America is a Christian nation, and so that kind of behaviour is seen as acceptable.

In fact in USA they have not allowed gay marriage just because in one passage of the bible it says to lay with another man is an abomination. Their religion is deeply ingrained in their country (hell, their motto is even "in God we trust", and their money and coat of arms is littered with religious iconography), so you should not take this kind of thing lightly, because their country is complex and devout.

It is similar to the Muslim countries that have strong religious laws. It would be wrong to tell them to change their law to make it go against their religion too.