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.

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    10 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.

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      10 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”.

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        10 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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      10 months ago

      I’ll delete this response when you let me know, but the quoted format looks odd. I respect your position from what I can gather from the weird format, so please take a moment to edit and let me know when it’s done. I’d really like other viewers to see what you’re trying to articulate properly.

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        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

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          It must be the app, Memmy, that I’m using. It doesn’t show any formatting for me, just double spaces where they began and ended their formatting. I still gathered that was what they were sort of going for.

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        10 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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          It must be the app, Memmy, that I’m using. It doesn’t show any formatting for me, just double spaces where you began and ended your formatting.

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          10 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.

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        10 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.