1. Way to make horn players look good, guys....
And apparently what makes their acts criminal (or at least one thing that does) is that they're "ritualistic." Apparently rituals are illegal in Louisiana.
B.(1) For purposes of this Subsection, "ritualistic acts" means those acts undertaken as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice that result in or are intended to result in:
(a) The mutilation, dismemberment, torture, abuse, or sacrifice of animals.
(b) The ingestion of human or animal blood or human or animal waste.
What about Communion?
C.(1) No person shall commit ritualistic mutilation, dismemberment, or torture of a human as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice.
Circumcision? And I'm sure Baptism could be argued to count here.
(3) No person shall commit ritualistic psychological abuse of children or of physically or mentally disabled adults as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice.
Sunday school? Vacation Bible School? I could go on for days here....
2. The tsar and his wife Alexandra believed that Rasputin had the power to heal their hemophiliac son Alexei, so they kept Rasputin around the house as sort of a turn of the century Kato Kaelin.
Best metaphor ever.
3. The saga begins.
I was with them until the fourth sentence, which I tend to agree with generally, but it's unnecessary on the sign.
4. Sheep!
5. Yay!
It's always nice to find allies in unlikely places.
The American creed is faith in liberty for all, not the religion of most.
It always struck me as strange when people try to argue that America's a Christian nation simply because most of its citizens are Christian. That would mean that it's also a Euro-Caucasian nation because most of its citizens are white. Clearly there's some faulty logic at play here.
And apparently what makes their acts criminal (or at least one thing that does) is that they're "ritualistic." Apparently rituals are illegal in Louisiana.
B.(1) For purposes of this Subsection, "ritualistic acts" means those acts undertaken as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice that result in or are intended to result in:
(a) The mutilation, dismemberment, torture, abuse, or sacrifice of animals.
(b) The ingestion of human or animal blood or human or animal waste.
What about Communion?
C.(1) No person shall commit ritualistic mutilation, dismemberment, or torture of a human as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice.
Circumcision? And I'm sure Baptism could be argued to count here.
(3) No person shall commit ritualistic psychological abuse of children or of physically or mentally disabled adults as part of a ceremony, rite, initiation, observance, performance, or practice.
Sunday school? Vacation Bible School? I could go on for days here....
2. The tsar and his wife Alexandra believed that Rasputin had the power to heal their hemophiliac son Alexei, so they kept Rasputin around the house as sort of a turn of the century Kato Kaelin.
Best metaphor ever.
3. The saga begins.
I was with them until the fourth sentence, which I tend to agree with generally, but it's unnecessary on the sign.
4. Sheep!
5. Yay!
It's always nice to find allies in unlikely places.
The American creed is faith in liberty for all, not the religion of most.
It always struck me as strange when people try to argue that America's a Christian nation simply because most of its citizens are Christian. That would mean that it's also a Euro-Caucasian nation because most of its citizens are white. Clearly there's some faulty logic at play here.
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