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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (104997)5/25/2005 10:32:21 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
Humiliating a prisoner, by defiling his religion in front of him, while he is totally at your mercy, is quite a bit different from a free artist, displaying his work in a place no one is required to come to view it, and such prisoner abuse has nothing to do with "Freedom of Expression".

I would suggest that an artist doing a "Piss Koran" would be just the same as "Piss Christ"- and they would both be examples of free artistic expression, which no one need look at unless they choose to- but you are comparing apples and oranges by comparing what might be inflicted on the incarcerated with a work viewed in an art gallery. If you were in prison I wouldn't want anyone humiliating you by flushing your bible or pieces of it, anymore than I think the Koran should be defiled. I assume you wouldn't want the bible flushed in front of Christian prisoners- and there are many Christian prisoners in our nation's jails. I would hope you would think that would be abusive, and an atrocity, even.
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