{"id":21877,"date":"2014-09-11T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21877"},"modified":"2014-09-11T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T23:01:58","slug":"the-god-problem-teenager-faces-jail-time-for-desecrating-a-venerated-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=21877","title":{"rendered":"The god problem: &#8220;teenager faces jail time for &#8216;desecrating a venerated object&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I leave the reportage on this absurd story to Jerry Coyne on his Why Evolution Is True: <a href=\"http:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/11\/pennsylvania-teenager-faces-jail-time-for-desecrating-a-venerated-object\/\">Pennsylvania teenager faces jail time for \u201cdesecrating a venerated object\u201d \u00ab Why Evolution Is True<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And really, Pennsylvania legislators. You have to get a grip: mocking symbols of <em>anything<\/em> cannot be a criminal or even civil complaint. Even if your constituency believes a person named Jesus actually lived and did miraculous things (I do not), this is a <em>statue<\/em>. If belief can&#8217;t allow a teenager to make fun, even if raunchily, of a statue, then that belief is too fragile, too simplistic for this world.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there is no place for this belief in the public sphere we supposedly maintain in a democracy. If you&#8217;re so outraged, take it home and kvetch in your living room, out of my sight and hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave the reportage on this absurd story to Jerry Coyne on his Why Evolution Is True: Pennsylvania teenager faces jail time for \u201cdesecrating a venerated object\u201d \u00ab Why Evolution Is True. And really, Pennsylvania legislators. 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