[FoRK] Baseline for calling out the issue

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Lion Kimbro wrote:

>   Say, "YES, I violate all 5 of these principles, but it's okay,  
> because
>   we're in a time of need," or whatever your reason is.

How many of your principles, Lion, are violated by, let's say, the  
execution of a woman for the crime of being a rape victim?  How many  
of your principles are violated by filling children's heads with a  
hatred of science?  With religious / political indoctrination of  
children?  How many are violated by people strapping bombs on  
themselves and taking out a restaurant full of men, women, and  
children whose only crime is that they practice a different faith?   
How many of your principles are violated by activists advocating for  
the rights of little clumps of cells over those of real people?  How  
many of your principles are violated by fanatics who want to punish a  
teacher for allowing her school children to give a stuffed animal a  
particular name?  How many of your principles are violated by those  
who threaten death to cartoonists who pen likenesses of certain so- 
called prophets, or who threaten the publishers that publish such  
images?  How many of your principles are violated by those preachers,  
in countless churches across this very country, who every week  
instill in the children of their "flock" utter terror at endless pain  
and torture, should they "stray" from the "path?"

Yeah, those advocating for adopting a harsher stance towards religion  
and the religious, those are the bad guys.  Sure.

jb