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Boy Charged For Desecration Of Jesus Statue

DA60 said:
You want to throw this guy in jail?

At taxpayer's expense?

For that?

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Wrong facepalm.

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Ah, they just can't contain their true beliefs. While being appalled if a government passed Sharia Law based on the Koran, they would be just fine with government basing laws on the Christian Bible.

Some asses just need to get hit in their jawbone.

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stop idolizing the golden calf. it's an object!
 
1750Texan said:
.....Being outraged is not a criminal offense and is constitutionally protected...trying to prosecute because one is outraged, is not constitutional.
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Many of our laws, such as anti-nudity, flag desecration laws and broadcast indecency laws, are unofficially based on a right to not be offended. Improper (in my opinion), but arguably legal, application of work place harassment laws also can also protect a right to avoid offense. In my view, there is no right to avoid being offended* and it was a good choice, and intentional, that the USA's constitution does not recognize such a right. Being offended is a choice.

*Harassment is different and should be a crime when it is extreme (in my opinion).
 
Gardener said:
All of my own Jesus statues are equipped with a secret mechanical device that is only tripped when the statue senses certain motions.
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Is that a shoe?
 
Hard Truth said:
Many of our laws, such as anti-nudity, flag desecration laws and broadcast indecency laws, are unofficially based on a right to not be offended.
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Public nudity and broadcasting regulations are not based on offense, they're based on society's right to regulate public property in the public's interests.
 
ecofarm said:
Public nudity and broadcasting regulations are not based on offense, they're based on society's right to regulate public property in the public's interests.
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The public's interest in not being offended by seeing naked people or hearing naughty words. There is no material harm from naked people or bad words.
 
ecofarm said:
Public nudity and broadcasting regulations are not based on offense, they're based on society's right to regulate public property in the public's interests.
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Sorry, but that is how they get away with it, not what their motivations are.
 
Beaudreaux said:
WTF??? Desecration??? When did that become a law here in the US? A Christian version of Sharia??? Seriously?
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Right. Where are the protests in the street and death threats? Freedom of speech be damned.
 
Hard Truth said:
The public's interest in not being offended by seeing naked people or hearing naughty words. There is no material harm from naked people or bad words.
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The argument I have heard from a few is that anti-nudity laws are based on disease, but historically anyway, that is not accurate.
 
Hard Truth said:
The public's interest in not being offended by seeing naked people or hearing naughty words. There is no material harm from naked people or bad words.
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the public has an interest in law and order.

If you commit acts so against what the public considers acceptable, they will likely respond in a way that requires government intervention.

Say I see you doing that to the statue, and I punch you out for it. Now we appear before a jury of our peers that decide they approve of my actions.

now what? I just assaulted you, but our peers are fine with it. so do we make assault legal, or the act you did illegal?
 
blarg said:
now if he had thrown feces on the statue that would be a crime
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He had already pissed on a navity scene and was charged with a dismeanor last year.


Not making excuses, buuuut.....it might also be worth noting that he lives in a small town and went to Catholic school....and he's 14. Add them altogether and throw a kneeling statue of Jesus in the mix and you've got a recipe for.....a Facebook pic and fifteen minutes of fame.
 
Moot said:
He had already pissed on a navity scene and was charged with a dismeanor last year.


Not making excuses, buuuut.....it might also be worth noting that he lives in a small town and went to Catholic school....and he's 14. Add them altogether and throw a kneeling statue of Jesus in the mix and you've got a recipe for.....a Facebook pic and fifteen minutes of fame.
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It was a college student in 2010 who "was arrested on a similar desecration charge. The intoxicated 22-year-old was busted after a cop spotted him urinating on a Nativity scene constructed in a city square".

Not the 14 year old kid.
 
ARealConservative said:
the public has an interest in law and order.

If you commit acts so against what the public considers acceptable, they will likely respond in a way that requires government intervention.

Say I see you doing that to the statue, and I punch you out for it. Now we appear before a jury of our peers that decide they approve of my actions.

now what? I just assaulted you, but our peers are fine with it. so do we make assault legal, or the act you did illegal?
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Neither. Being offended is not a defense for violence. In your hypothetical scenario the jury made a bad decision, which happens sometimes, but that doesn't mean that the laws need to be changed. Most states do not have desecration laws and I doubt that Pennsylvania's desecration law will stand up to a challenge in court.
 
Hard Truth said:
Neither. Being offended is not a defense for violence. In your hypothetical scenario the jury made a bad decision, which happens sometimes, but that doesn't mean that the laws need to be changed. Most states do not have desecration laws and I doubt that Pennsylvania's desecration law will stand up to a challenge in court.
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as soon as you are ruled dictator, you can decide what is an acceptable defense and what isn't.

until that day, a jury of your peers will ultimately decide.
 
Meadowlark said:
It was a college student in 2010 who "was arrested on a similar desecration charge. The intoxicated 22-year-old was busted after a cop spotted him urinating on a Nativity scene constructed in a city square".

Not the 14 year old kid.
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I stand corrected. :)
 
Employers look at Facebook, too. Ten or so years from now when he's looking for job this could come back to haunt him.
 
There are some soulless people in the world. Come soon Jesus.
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