Church rebuffs military concerns on Quran burning

They don't formally congregate and, as a major group, denounce them. They do as individuals though.

This is essentially the point. However, in this scenario I've talked with a lot of people I know are religious, and they aren't necessarily denouncing it, they agree partially that the Qur'an is "against the bible" so they don't see much harm in it. Foolish.

Like I said, if I have some free time Saturday i'll be going down there and taking pictures, maybe burn a couple Bibles and get on the news or something. Gainesville as a city couldn't get any more redneck/white-trash hickville, so this going on down there doesn't really surprise me any.

You might want to bring friends/law enforcement if you're going to burn bibles in the south.

This is exactly why I don't mess with religion. There is to much left to interpretation. The Quran is nothing more then Islam's bible, just like Allah is nothing more then their God. Essentially, this idiot is going to be burning a bible, which almost makes his entire idea, invalid.

You might want to bring friends/law enforcement if you're going to burn bibles in the south.

This. Very, very much so.

Problem is, I only have a few like-minded friends and the ones who agree on this particular issue aren't motivated enough to do anything about it, they'd rather sit around and smoke weed. But the ones who actually have drive and passion about everything, are the dipshit fringe who have to make their opinions heard.

I can't believe how much news media this guy has been getting. I remember L&T interviewing this guy over a month ago when he first announced what he was going to do and nothing really ran with it, I guess there's something around 9/11 every year that gets played out. Is it wrong to hope for violence to happen against this guy?

Utah ACLU Executive Director Karen McCreary her organization is concerned about the wave of anti-Muslim sentiment, the pastor's actions are not criminal in nature and should not be considered hate crimes. "The answer is not to impinge on people's rights to protest, even when their speech is distasteful or offensive," she says. McCreary says this pastor's free speech rights are protected under the Constitution. "We can't pick and choose who is protected by the Constitution," she says. "The answer to hateful speech is really for so many more people to speak up and counteract it rather than infringe this constitutional right."

From an article on a local news site. I agree.

Gotta love the shitty proof-reading, or lack thereof. Impinge on people's rights?

I was wondering what they meant. Not sure if you all have heard or not, but apparently the "KORAN" burning isn't going to take place anymore.

Good. I had heard that it wasn't elsewhere.

they agree partially that the Qur'an is "against the bible"

The Qur'an's first book is the Bible shortened into a single book....
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!