Lunatics Running The Asylum (Part III)
Life on this planet isn't an overly complicated affair but for some reason people continue to insist that it ought to be twisted up into logical pretzels, bellowing that they have the "right" to believe whatever they choose and that, furthermore, the rest of us have a responsibility to support their freedom to babble on like senile vagrants. Here's the story.
In 2003 Canada's equivalent to the Texas Badlands, otherwise known as Alberta, decided to get with the times and instituted a requirement that every new driver's licence should have a photograph of the citizen to whom it was issued. Well, the Hutterite community in Wilson Colony, just east of Lethbridge, challenged the new regulation by refusing to have their licences renewed because, according to them, the Bible's second commandment forbids photographs of the faithful. Their lawyer argued that "their charter rights to freedom of religion" were being infringed upon and that since the number of licences in the community had dropped from 37 to 15, the communal farm community's survival was in danger of extinction. [Evidently it hasn't occurred to any of these brainless clods that one needs a vehicle to drive, not a licence; and that if the real concern is the farm's "operations" as claimed, then by limiting themselves to driving only farm machinery, and only on private property, it's not very likely they'll be pulled over by the police anyhow.] Last week Justice Sal LoVecchio ruled in favour of the "conservative religious sect." [Nor, evidently, has it occurred to any of these brainless clods to punch "Hutterite community" into Google's search engine to find a few posted Hutterite photographs and a quick lesson in the magnitude of the idiocy they're mired in.]
As Mark Twain so astutely pleaded : "Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either."
In 2003 Canada's equivalent to the Texas Badlands, otherwise known as Alberta, decided to get with the times and instituted a requirement that every new driver's licence should have a photograph of the citizen to whom it was issued. Well, the Hutterite community in Wilson Colony, just east of Lethbridge, challenged the new regulation by refusing to have their licences renewed because, according to them, the Bible's second commandment forbids photographs of the faithful. Their lawyer argued that "their charter rights to freedom of religion" were being infringed upon and that since the number of licences in the community had dropped from 37 to 15, the communal farm community's survival was in danger of extinction. [Evidently it hasn't occurred to any of these brainless clods that one needs a vehicle to drive, not a licence; and that if the real concern is the farm's "operations" as claimed, then by limiting themselves to driving only farm machinery, and only on private property, it's not very likely they'll be pulled over by the police anyhow.] Last week Justice Sal LoVecchio ruled in favour of the "conservative religious sect." [Nor, evidently, has it occurred to any of these brainless clods to punch "Hutterite community" into Google's search engine to find a few posted Hutterite photographs and a quick lesson in the magnitude of the idiocy they're mired in.]
As Mark Twain so astutely pleaded : "Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either."
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