[StBernard] CHRISTMAS IS COMING

[Westley Annis]

But it is not always as simple as staying away from a particular store.

I really don't care about the entertainment crap. Like Walter Matthau said
in "First Monday in October", "Censorship is an outrage!"

I can't drive the street without seeing these idiots running around with
their "pants on the ground", but I'm not supposed to get outraged about
that. You can't walk into some stores and not see other customers dressed
like they just got out of bed, including fuzzy slippers, but I'm not
supposed to get outraged.

If I use the word Christmas in a public greeting or advertisement, I'm
supposed to be contrite because I didn't think of the other persons
feelings.

It is a double standard and I think Catholics need to start standing up for
the right to express their religious beliefs without condemnation.

This editorial cartoon sums it up rather nicely.

http://www.jillstanek.com/dana%20summers%202.gif

Westley

-----Original Message-----


>but let someone religious get offended by some of the

obscene stuff we are exposed to in the stores or entertainment and all of a
sudden it becomes a free speech issue

Well of course you are neither required nor forced to go to any particular
store which has things that might offend you Westley.  There is, after all,
the internet where you can do your shopping and you can order your own
"clean" entertainment DVDs to watch at home.  And besides, with regard to
"entertainment", wouldn't you have an idea of what a movie, tv show or
whatever is about before you went to it or watched it on the tv thereby not
exposing
yourself to this "obscene" whatever?   Just askin'.