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Originally posted by thesupermikey
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Well put. One can stand back and say that it is ok for them to do this as long as it is not my books that are being burnt. That is the same attitude that many Germans had has Jews were being persecuted in the 1930s. While this is a protected form of speech, that does not make it right even if your rights are not being violated. I for one am glad that the city is standing in the way of the book burning. By standing aside and letting it happens it makes the city look like it agrees with the actions of this church.
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This is very wrongheaded. Burning your own books, that you paid for, is nothing more sinister than a protest. When the Nazi's burned books it was a completely different situation. In that case the book burning was an effort by the government to eradicate books that conflicted with their ideas to keep others from being able to read them. This church protest won't stop anyone from reading any book, it's just a way of showing that they find the content of these books offensive. If they were pulling them off of library shelves or trying to stop bookstores from selling them it would be different.
If the city were to stop it (for any reason other than fire ordinances), I would find that much more sinister than the book burning itself.