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I don’t want more churches built, is that hate speech? Yes. What business is it of yours what people do behind closed doors? (EDIT: assuming that behavior is
by drugme 8y ago
I don’t want more churches built, is that hate speech?
Yes. What business is it of yours what people do behind closed doors?
(EDIT: assuming that behavior is otherwise law-abiding, in compliance with building codes, etc).
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoDepends. If they diddle kids behind closed doors it's very much the law's business (for example). I'm not saying that's happening here, I'm making an example. Churches are not exempt from the law, neither is any kind of private property for that matter. Besides, there are valid reasons to be against the building of a church near your house - noise for example (church bells, prayer songs).
- rootusrootus 8y agoChurches get de facto public financing to support their proselytizing. It's okay to have an opinion on whether we should subsidize more of them.
- asdkhadsj 8y agoObjectively, lots of our business. Mainly because what is done behind closed doors rarely stays behind closed doors, and also because of said crimes that can occur behind closed doors. Ie, I can't sit behind closed doors and commit horrible crimes against humans and then claim "What business is it of yours?". That of course is not to say that we don't have some right to privacy, to independence and etc. Yet, standing behind a claim of "what happens behind closed doors is none of your business" seems to willfully ignore so much.
- YorkshireSeason 8y agoWhat people do behind closed doors tends to affect what they do openly. Religion has historically always been used as a tool to assert political power. Mosques often get financed by undemocratic regimes, in particular Mohammad bin Salman's Saudi-Arabia, which most definitely funds Mosques in a political influence operation.