God's teeth, talk about a retrograde step.

Did any of them actually listen to the story that's told in that song? The Devil gets his musical tail owned. It was fairly obvious before, but now I'm sure these people have no clue.

So that 'bill' is going to make it ok for a Muslim student and a Jewish student to bully each other, as long as it's in the context of religion?

Hmmm...I hope they don't forget and just call each other faggots by mistake. I'd hate to see them get into trouble for being shitheads.

They could probably justify 'faggot' on the grounds that homosexuality offends their faith.

OK, fuckhead then.

The "Westboro Baptist Bully" law.

That is the purpose of the change to the law.

I'm inclined to agree.

I suppose that killing those religious morons while screaming that Allah doesn't see eye to eye with them would land anyone in jail as a terrorist.

So when are we going to put "Happy Holidays" back in Christmas?

So the local word now is that the outrage is finally big enough that it won't pass. As per usual with American Politics, the problem was that most were in favor of the original bill, the "wording change" (=total intent change) was slipped in after the general feeling was "yes" and then actively hushed.

sigh

Kooks on the loose in the Motor City.

"Our concern is that we are literally being demonized by the organizers of this group," said Dawud Walid, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter, which last week urged local mosques and Islamic schools to increase security. "And given the recent history of other groups that have come into Michigan ... we're concerned about this prayer vigil stoking up the flames of divisiveness in the community."

TheCall is the latest and largest of several groups or individuals to come to the Detroit area with a message that stirred up many of its estimated 150,000 to 200,000 Muslims. Recent visitors have included Florida pastor Terry Jones; members of the Westboro Baptist Church; and the Acts 17 Apologetics, missionaries who were arrested for disorderly conduct last year at Dearborn's Arab International Festival but were later acquitted.

Update: The anti-bullying bill will become law today, the wording to allow bullying on religious grounds has been removed.

Thank God.