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If I say you have an ugly face or a horrible voice,

you have every right to feel hurt,

and I hope I would have the good manners not to say it.

But I think everyone accepts that I have the legal right to say it.

Where religion is concerned, however, it's another story.

Religion is a special case, a privileged case.

Why?

What is so special about religion?

You may be hurt if I say something that you consider insults your religion.

But that's no reason why I shouldn't say it.

Your religion is your religion, it is not mine.

And it's not societies.

You're not entitled to expect anyone else to respect it.

Religious folksmen and always these men, not women,

all too often threaten mayhem and murder if anyone breathes a word against religion.

They literally threaten to behead people for a crime no more serious than making a drawing or writing a novel.

But the real problem is not the religious wing knots themselves.

The real problem is the accommodationist appeasing respect

that we decent liberal nice people wrongly give them.

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