Posted by Ron Hill on May 24, 2002, at 15:30:36
In reply to Final Summation of Concerns + My own thoughts..., posted by kid_A on May 24, 2002, at 14:10:35
Hi Kid_A,
> Now I'd like to reiterate a few things. First, this board is not a democracy. If Dr Bob wanted to delete every single message that contained the letter Q within it, it would be within his right to do so. It wouldn't really go very far to promoting conversation, but thats neither here nor there.
No, that's not quite true. Everyone is subject to the law of the land, our friend Dr. Bob included. Federal law requires that religious speech be given equal status as other forms of speech in the market place of ideas. In other words, to remove posts from PSB, solely because the posts are religious in nature, is illegal. In legal terms this is referred to as "viewpoint discrimination."
> Second, Lets use an analogy of a newspaper. There is the main section for all the "news", theres a style section, want-ads, etc etc...
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> Now what a few people are proposing is that it's unfair to seperate the Style section from the News section because it somehow then makes the Style section inferior or infers somehow that it is inferior to the News section.
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> I think if you look at the newspaper analogy you can see that this isn't the intent or the case.Please note that, within each and every section of the newspaper, constitutionally guaranteed speech is protected. Religious speech can not be censored (solely because it is religious in nature) in the Sports Section, or in the Style Section, or in the Classified Section, or in the News Section, or any in other section. Nor, might I add, in the PSB section.
> I think, and this may be opinion, that the real reason that nobody wants to move theological posts to their own board is because they feel that they will no longer get any attention.IMHO, it's probably best to keep speculations of other people's motives to yourself since that falls under one of the subcategories of incivility.
Thanks for your interest in this matter.
-- Ron
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