By Brody Levesque | GAINESVILLE, FL -- The gloves are off and the masks have been removed in the United States as apparently it has become rather fascisticly fashionable to bully your fellow citizen or better still, hang an effigy of your president, who happens to be black, with a noose in a part of the country where not too long ago, that in of itself was typically approved of quietly.
Just this week the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida hung an effigy of President Barack Obama from a gallows on its front lawn. The church's pastor Terry Jones stated that the display was in response to the president's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage, as well as his stance on abortion, adding the president's "appeasing of radical Islam."
The display is hung from a makeshift gallows with a noose of yellow rope, has a doll in its right hand because the president is "favorable toward abortion." and a rainbow-colored gay pride flag in its left to call attention to Obama's stance on same-sex marriage according to Jones.
A spokesperson for the United States Secret Service Miami Field Office told a Florida paper that the agency is currently investigating Jones in response to the display.
The Dove outreach Church has stirred controversy previously with a book burning of the Islamic Holy Book, the Quran last year that sparked three days of violent rioting in Afghanistan which resulted in the deaths of at least 21 people, including seven United Nations Relief Agency workers. At the time Pastor Jones was quoted as saying that radical Islam is "the most dangerous threat to life and national security in America."
Jones and his church seem to be following a recent trend where calling same-sex marriage "counterfeit marriage" and calling for LGBTQ persons to be rounded up and held in camps surrounded by electrified fences and teaching toddlers to sing homophobic songs is perfectly acceptable.
Of course let us not forget that maybe according to another pastor, why not just have the government round the gays up and kill them off instead?
What is also readily apparent is that with a wink-wink and a nod, obviously these types of behaviours don't even raise an eyebrow, after all, "homosexuals" are an abomination and the "choice of the death lifestyle" needs to be eradicated from american society.
The moral outrage will likely fill the comments of any news site including this one that runs this story but sadly, most likely will not translate into any call to hold persons like Jones accountable because after all, "It's just them exercising their First Amendment Rights."
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Well, for what it's worth, ONLY in America does the right to free speech include the right to actually lie, and to encourage violence, not to mention doing all that speaking without even engaging the brain first. What is sadly lacking, and greatly needed, is a limiting provision within the right to free speech that insists upon responsibility in both thought and conduct before opening one's mouth.
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