POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Puting the ID in Stupid. : Re: Puting the ID in Stupid. Server Time
14 Nov 2024 18:21:48 EST (-0500)
  Re: Puting the ID in Stupid.  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 22 Mar 2008 00:33:54
Message: <MPG.224e4801503ad23698a11e@news.povray.org>
In article <47e47a1d$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Chambers wrote:
> > And the theatre owner can ban anyone they want for any reason they want
. 
> 
> Not quite. There *are* a list of reasons why you can't ban someone. You
 
> can't kick someone out for being Catholic or having dark skin. But other
 
> reasons, sure.
> 
> Indeed, I bet you could make a case that you were kicked out for being 
> atheist, and therefore that's religious discrimination.
> 
> I saw a report of a community refusing to allow lawyers to buy homes 
> there because they file too many lawsuits.  A lawyer was refused, and he
 
> of course filed a lawsuit.  He lost, because "lawyer" isn't a protected
 
> category.
> 
Yeah. They are busy spinning this, trying to claim that they knew, from 
some comment made on the subject previously by PZ, that he would have 
been disruptive. The fact that his behavior, unless you read one version 
of events from the creationist attending, who has so far posted 2 
conflicting claims of PZs behavior, one saying he was disruptive, the 
other that, "well, no, actually he wasn't..", showed nothing of the 
sort, is a bit odd. The fact that he hasn't shown a public tendency to 
be disruptive doesn't lend itself to the claim either. The only apparent 
reason why he might have been refused was because Mathis, who produced 
this garbage, hates PZs guts for the few times PZ called in one some 
radio interview by the fool and made him look like the idiot he was. 
Basically, the working theory is that Mathis saw PZ, recognized who he 
was, ordered him removed, but in his panic didn't notice who was with 
him. A fact pretty much confirmed by the later account of him turning 
white as a sheet when he called on Dawkins, then the later spin they 
have tried to put on it, claiming that they cowed Dawkins into 
submission during the Q&A after. The only thing certain is that their 
message is, "Our version of evolution is the right one, we think ID is 
better, but don't plan to tell you what the hell that actually is, and 
oh, BTW, evolution leads to atheism, which led to Hitler." If there is 
one damn thing in those premises that isn't either delusional, 
historically wrong, or showing a vast ignorance of everything about the 
subjects they are trying to talk about, its probably that the movie is 
"their view". The rest... couldn't be more wrong if they tried to claim 
that evolution is wrong because it doesn't explain The Lord of the Rings 
and that Gandalf was really the first Pope and that the Holocaust was 
caused by the rediscovery of the One Ring.

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