A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.

  • @[email protected]
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    5311 months ago

    …If the government is going to permit one ideology to put up religious iconography on their grounds, then they must include the other religions stop and take those down.

    • @[email protected]
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      2611 months ago

      At the moment, SCOTUS treats no belief as a separate religion. In our life times we are going to have to aim for the more achievable “all religions matter”.

      • @[email protected]
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        1211 months ago

        SCOTUS gets something wrong, what a shocker. You set your goals for how much progress you want to see in a lifetime and I’ll set mine.

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        811 months ago

        For reference, this is what it looks like for me (desktop firefox):

        So, looks fine to me formatting-wise. I read the intent to be that (1) they’re quoting you, and (2) they’re conveying a government building should not be a place for religious iconography, at all.

        I’d be happier if there would be no religious presence in government buildings too, but alas, the SC has ruled for what we’ve got. So I suppose it’s nice at least that we’ve got TST to help ensure our governments aren’t playing favorites

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        …If the government is going to permit one ideology to put up religious iconography on their grounds, then they must…

        …stop and take those down.


        Out of curiosity, does the earlier post’s strikethrough for the part I’ve now removed show up for you? I’ve heard that some apps don’t handle all of the formatting options particularly well.

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          11 months ago

          What is the formatting used to denote strikethrough on lemmy? On Kbin it looks like it’s ignoring it, but it has double tilde as a supported strikethrough formatter.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 months ago

            It’s the double-tilde over here too, not sure why kbin would ignore it. Strike!

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        FWIW, I’m reading this thread in a Firefox browser on a PC and only the bolding works for me. I see the double-tildes at either end of what should be struck out text.