Posted on 08/29/2014 5:52:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
No doubt a large flashing neon sign for an abortion clinic would be heartily welcomed in this same New England village.
Tyranny by the minority in action. The bigotry of low expectations. This Green Mountain Boy is long-gone.
City manager Katherine Decarreau tingled with glee as she celebrated the stifling of free expression on the altar of contrived offense. "The cool part of living in a diverse community is that it's not always comfortable,” she said. “It’s a fascinating place with lots of opportunities for conversation.”
This willful surrender to the complaint of a Muslim about a sign that advertised bacon and the town manager's dopey response that reeks with politically correctness is both amusing as it reflects the insanity of the left in America and sad as it also reflects the rapid erosion of our constitutional right to free speech, taken incrementally, one piece at a time.
That this incident was motivated by a Muslim complaining about a sign advertising bacon (on public property) indicates how easy it is to intimidate Americans with PC rubbish. So much for the joys of multiculturalism.
Let a bunch of bacon-loving Christians show up to speak at their next City council meeting and see how cool the little Ms. thinks it is.
Or considering that for a Muslim, living in America, still a majority Christian country, with the Christian faith not having any real rules in regards to food.
As long as the conversation doesn't include the word "bacon," apparently. If it does, it will be immediately shut down and so the opportunity for conversation is lost.
I find it intolerable to live in today's "Through the Looking Glass" world, where:
* Liberty is now condemned as "on your own economics" (i.e. "freedom is slavery");
* Bill Clinton is black and Clarence Thomas is white;
* Those of us who insist that the Constitution be followed are extremists while those who want to replace it with a totalitarian oligarchy are "moderates"; and
* The most reprehensibly intolerant religion in the world demands tolerance for itself and obedience from those who do not belong to it.
How soon will the grocery chain “Piggly Wiggly” will be forced to change its name?
Burlington is beautiful. My cousin lives there. Go. Visit it. Eat at their restaurants.
Just don’t talk to the locals. They will make your head explode.
The old adages of Yankee Common sense mean less and less as you get closer to B-ton.
Bump Posts #4 & 7!
Let a bunch of bacon-loving Christians show up to speak at their next City council meeting and see how cool the little Ms. thinks it is.
They all left.... Vt is chock full of socialist, commies, and trustafarians from NY and CT... all the decent people left a long time ago...VT is a very atheist/non-Christian place.. especially the Burlington area.. pretty sad. The school system full of progressives won.
It is truly horrifying what decades of Political Correctness and cowardice have done to our country.
The real Green Mountain Boys would long ago have grabbed their muskets off the wall and started shooting traitors.
Burlington is beautiful, but wierd. There th Old Union train station at the bottom of Main St. #5, on the shore of Lake Champlain. For years it was Green Mt. Power’s HQ and I worked there. Today it is a museum and restaurant. These wierdos put large bronze statues of FLYING Monkeys on top of it. Evil demons.
Worse.. Flag Poles at the new UVM Student Center display the GLBT rainbow flag right next to old Glory.
The inmates run that asylum.
Winooski is a burb of Burlington. That explains it completely.
I love the Windham Hill Inn, just north of Brattleboro, best B&B on the planet. I just avoid talking to any locals like they have the plague.
Brattleboro is the last bastion of the 1960’s hippies.
Walking through that downtown is like a drive through safari for hippies.
You’d think a state bloodied n the Revolutionary War would know better. Sad, ignorant and hurtful. (Yeah, I know, progressive.) Vermont is for vermin now, I guess.
The old adages of Yankee Common sense mean less and less as you get closer to B-ton.
...yeah well, they don’t get any better as you go through Rutland or Brattleboro...for my money, take Vermont and stick it somewhere that’s hard to find...
...what’s ailing America is summed up quite nicely in this sorry little state and its enclaves of progressives...
There is some hope there but little I see lately... went there a few weeks ago... tons of tattooed people... bars packed at 3pm on a Tues. Just surprised me how so many adults could be in a resturant/bar drinking... I was just trying to find a late lunch/early dinner for the kids and I.
Also saw lots of people that looked just poor and rough...not thriving... took some back roads home...every other house was for sale 10-15 mi out of Burlington area. Coastal Maine was the same way north of Portland.
“”Religions may have whatever dietary restrictions they wish””
Wouldn’t it be great if Mormons and Seventh Day Adventists took up the same cause for foods that are restricted to them? I’d love to see it begin in Seattle over coffee!!!!!
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