There's more than one of them, and in some places (South Carolina, apparently) they have enough political power to legislate away our freedoms. They also like to play the part of innocent victim/martyr and whine about how everybody else is smearing them and it's not fair. They can take away our freedoms, and when we complain about it, we're labeled whiners or we're accused of being overly fixated on the subject.
If tattoos are such a trivial thing, why is it necessary to outlaw them?
There's more than one of them, they tend to travel in packs, and they are hostile to anything that isn't their faith, to the point of wanting NO non-Christians in the space program (they might make room for a few Jews, being so progressive and all, but they've got no room for native American Indians, a people who were slaughtered by germs and almost finished off by Christians)