It's a sad commentary on our society for sure. It won't stop at just chilling the free speech rights of anyone even vaguely connected to the government though. It's not too difficult to foresee a future in which someone complains about hearing Christian music coming out of their neighbor's house and sending law enforcement to shut them down. Just like the folk who claim they can smell cigarette from inside their neighbors closed house and sics the authorities on them now...
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An implausible situation based on flimsy evidence of a slope that isn't all that slippery.
@Frogflayer
Oh the bad puns, I just can't Handel them.
It's not too difficult to foresee a future in which someone complains about hearing Christian music coming out of their neighbor's house and sending law enforcement to shut them down.
If the music's loud enough to be heard next door, then they have a valid complaint no matter what type of music it is. But of course if your scenario actually happens, I'm sure Fox News would be all over it spinning it as more Christian persecution.
Homemade puns, fresh from the Beethoven...
And that person will be looked at as just as much of an asshole as someone that claims they "smell cigarette smoke" through closed windows and doors across the street through their own closed windows and doors.
Only difference is that no one will listen to them. Unless it's like that one neighbor I had that blared Tejano loud enough for the bass to be heard 2 blocks away (who then had the balls to complain about the noise from people's generators after a hurricane took out the power for a couple weeks, sparing us from the endless BOOP BOOP BOOP BOOP. Can only imagine how any of our neighbors that DIDN'T like Tejano felt...).
@all
What? I can picture some old busybody Wagner finger at me for blaring my music til the windows rattle.
@Anon
Stryper? Really? Rather be Chopin my ears off than subjected to that...
"It's not too difficult to foresee a future in which someone complains about hearing Christian music coming out of their neighbor's house and sending law enforcement to shut them down."
Well, yes. Did you consider the fact that you can replace "Christian music" in that sentence with literally any other kind of music and have it still be a true statement? Being a public nuisance is not the same thing as "free speech".
It won't stop at just chilling the free speech rights of anyone even vaguely connected to the government though.
The government doesn't have freedom of speech, especially where matters of religion are concerned. Public school teacher John Peloza tried to argue that making him shut up about religion in his classroom violated his freedom of speech. He lost (Peloza v. Capistrano). When you work for the government, you're speaking and acting as the government, not yourself; so you have to abide by the rules applicable to the government. If you can't do that, you need to make a Faure into the private sector and find another job.
@Thinking Allowed
"Is Nidlap seriously afraid? It's not as if I'm going to Louis it and call the long Armstrong of the law."
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Puncess Luna: '...but if Nidahug [/Raspberry] experienced Satchmo of that, he'd have to go into Haydn.'
Princess Carlos tia: 'WAKKA-WAKKA-WAKKA!'
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@Azereaux
"Stryper? Really? Rather be Chopin my ears off than subjected to that..."
That's why Van Gogh escaped; into his art, as well as geographically. Yes, that's right: to ensure he wouldn't listen to any fundies playing Stryper all hours of the night, as well as Nidahug's BS, he moved to a certain part of Spain: Andalusia . X3
@Oxymoron's Razor
Someone I knew did that with merry-go-round music.
After repeated complaints had no effect, she put the record(this was pre-CD) on repeat, turned up the volume and left for 2 hours.
She never had trouble with loud music again.
Cooking stuff that makes us give sarcastic remarks. In the snark Beethoven. It's the lowest form of humor, which is itself the highest form of wit, which makes it the art above Moz-other-art.
What about when they're not at work? Or, for that matter, why hasn't anything happened to the ones who stop at talk (*cough* Trump *cough)?
If it's after curfew...
Those guys are a pain in the butt...
If there was a law which does actually concern Christians that wasn't upheld, then you'd be the first to complain, without a care for the supposed rights of the clerk to stick by what you call free speech (it actually amounts to the freedom to discriminate).
"sics the authorities on them now..."
No, we'll only do that if we're acknowledging that we've made an intentional spelling error of authorities.
As far as I know, there's no jurisdiction where it's illegal to smoke cigarettes in one's own home or outdoors on one's property. There'd be no justification for calling the authorities about it, any more than calling them about the smell of corned beef and cabbage.
Just like the folk who claim they can smell cigarette from inside their neighbors closed house and sics the authorities on them now
Exactly the same in that the persecution will be just as much an urban myth as this story.
"It's not too difficult to foresee a future in which someone complains about hearing Christian music coming out of their neighbor's house and sending law enforcement to shut them down."
Citation seriously fucking needed.
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