First billboard for new club: FAIL!
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Churches and strip clubs usually don't go together — let alone share a space.So local leaders were less than thrilled to see a billboard for Roadhouse NYC go up above the New Hope Baptist Church on busy Northern Blvd. in Corona.But following a Daily News inquiry, the billboard is expected to come down on Thursday.
Good Lordy Sweet Jesus, another church to strip club fiasco
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1481060
Good Lordy Sweet Jesus, another church to strip club fiasco
http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1481060
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Would the city coucil dude have said "of course the church has the right to say what the wish...it is a free country...but I hope common sense would prevail and the stop trying to interfere with a lawfull business bringing jobs to my district"?
No bloody likely!
I'd feel the same way if Budweiser slapped a billboard above a AA meeting spot or a recovery center.
If more people acted this way we'd live in a better world.
If the church had asked the strip club and the club took it down to be nice folks....well that is their prerogative. I'd say cool. But my point was that the club didn't really have a choice. If they had said "we purchased billboards for advertising so we don't want to take it down" do you really think the church would have dropped it? Not bloody likely.
The problem I have with many (not all) churches is that the feel entitled. They get to say what they want but expect to be able to control the speech of others.
Just look at the atheist monument in north Florida. Christians put a 10 commandments monument in front of their courthouse. Why do they want to do that? Violating most commandments isn't even illegal. Indeed, America protects the right to violate many of them...and those that are illegal are hardly unique to Judiasim or Chritianity.
So Atheists put up their own monument. I wouldn't have bothered, but we do have speech you know. None of the pictures show anything clearly intended to be offensive to Christians. How long do you think it was before some dumbass redneck vandalized it?
www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/20…
To be fair there is no indication the dumbass redneck is directly affiliated with a church. But it still illustrates the asymmetry of these demands for respect. They are saying "can put up a 10 commandments monument AT A COURTHOUSE MEANT TO SERVE EVERYBODY and funded by everybody's taxes (the courthouse that is..the monument was privately funded) and if you don't like it, FUCK YOU". But if another group says "cool...free speech..we'll share our beliefs too" then folks protest and some dumbass vandalizes it.
There is no fundamental direction of civility in this country, because their is no civility. People's gut reaction is to yell, make demands and call their lawyers.
You don't like religion or churches and you're pissed they got what they wanted on an issue you don't agree with, so you toss out a lot of "if" statements to make it seem reprehensible.
The strip club unintentionally put a billboard up in a place a lot of people would call offensive. They apologized and promised to get it taken down. That's something to be happy about, I wish everybody including churches would take that line on things.
You sound a little like a kid trying to justify not sharing because the other kids probably won't share either.