I do in fact appreciate the irony of protesting in Falwell's funeral, given that his own faction had the same tasteless practice of picketing funerals. ("Do unto others..." comes to mind here.) But in both cases, this is done by an activist fringe of a much larger movement. While people would be horrified to see fringe groups duke it out in a funeral, I can't imagine them being terrorized.
If we already had a front of Christian terrorism, it would be different. Say if we had a secret Christian brotherhood throwing Molotov coctails at gay parades, blowing up bars or abortion clinics, burning down porn publishers etc... in that case, a person who pitched in on his own might be considered a terrorist even with no evident ties to the other terrorists. But that's not the current situation, despite the attempts of a few preachers to incite such violence.
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Date: 2007-05-23 01:35 pm (UTC)If we already had a front of Christian terrorism, it would be different. Say if we had a secret Christian brotherhood throwing Molotov coctails at gay parades, blowing up bars or abortion clinics, burning down porn publishers etc... in that case, a person who pitched in on his own might be considered a terrorist even with no evident ties to the other terrorists. But that's not the current situation, despite the attempts of a few preachers to incite such violence.