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 To get a little perspective on this, let's imagine my county passing a law stating that every single church, mosque, temple, synogogue or other religious body is required by law for the religious leader to stand up in front of his or her congregants and tell them regularly that every religious teaching they have received or will be given is a load of foul stinking crap. If the religious leader refuses to do so, they will be fired, or go to jail or be fined or both. Not only this, but the congregants will be required to pay for these ""load of crap"" messages. Do you think any religious people would be offended? 

 Let's bring this a bit closer to home. Suppose I went with a bunch of police to the Unification Church and forced ""Father"" to announce, at implied gunpoint, that he was a jerk and a liar and had preached nothing but bullsh*t for years? Would that be fair do you think? Do you think you and other moonies would object? What if I added insult to injury and forced all the moonies to pay me to administer this law, or go to prison? Would that ruffle your feathers a bit? Suppose I held immense rallies where I had tens of  thousands of people marching and screaming for imposition of this law? Suppose I yelled at the rally about how all moonies are the spawn of the devil and are going to hell, and I want to help them on their way as fast as possible? Suppose I blamed moonies for communism and abortions and Nazis and hunger and diseases and teenage suicide and drug use and homelessness? Screaming at the top of my lungs, spewing hate and anger? It might look like my rally was encouraging people to go out and stomp the stuffing out of moonies, right? Suppose I made up a special name for moonies, and called them something derogatory like ""moonkooks"" or worse. Would that be fair? Probably not, right? 

 Well suppose you complained about this, and I said you were violating my right to free speech? It is my free speech right to scream at every moonie how wrong and evil and stupid they are, right? How they are damned to hell and deserve to go to hell, right? It is part of my rights to force moonie religious leaders to renounce all the teachings of the Church, right? And in fact, my justification was just that I am only exercising my free speech rights and I want every moonie to be exposed to the truth, and that it is just for their own good. Do you think that would be fair?  

 So do you see why ""evolutionists"" might be a bit irritated with the creationists and the claims that creationists are getting a raw deal and having their free speech rights restricted? What is wrong with dealing with religion in religious settings, and with science in science settings? Tell me that before you spew more nonsense about how awful ""evolutionists"" are to poor innocent creationists.  "