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Teen Faces 2 Years in Prison for Taking a Lewd Photo…..With a Statue
The young man is charged with “Desecration of a Venerated Object.”, which is defined as “Defacing, damaging, polluting or otherwise, physically mistreating in a way that the actor knows will outrage the sensibilities of persons likely to observe or discover the action.”
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Call it a crime of cheeky behavior. You need to deal with the fact that he was being a public nuisance. If I started fucking the drain hole in the road on your block, am I protected by any legal rights?

I also had a good laugh at fools who think this is protected under 1st amendment. People who don't even know what that means have no right to hold such a privilege.

Looks like his dong's in his pants and nobody's around. What do I care if you dry-hump a drain in the middle of nowhere with your shorts on?

(or skorts? Long boxers...? Unsure what those are called... "skateboard asshole attire")

You don't know what two years means.

Unless he used the pictures for propaganda purposes, he should be let off with a warning. That said, his behavior was pretty provocative, given the fact that the majority of the Americans are religious Christians. BTW, that guy seriously needs to get laid. The lack of a female companion can sometimes result in illogical behavior, such as this incident.  ;D

He should be sentenced to some community service and home confinement for fair amount of time at most a relatively short stay in jail if you ask me.  This is pretty disturbing to think a judge would even consider allowing such a long jail sentence and that DA should be worried about losing his job for having such horrible judgment on the matter.

I'm ashamed to admit how hard I laughed at the pics because that is a gross act in so many ways.  But there is no way a person should go to jail for that long over something like this, that is the real crime..

WTF is wrong with LAW?? Give the kid a break, He was just being stupid (like most teenagers), bash on a head and some community service should be enough. Catch real criminals and put them in jail morons!! >:(

If he goes to jail for 2 years, he will definitely turn into a criminal which he isn't atm.

Meanwhile the rapist in Columbia runs free.


Because it's Jesus and kids should be locked up for the crime of touching a statue, because apparently "Cheeky behavior" is a new law.

Shame on all of you who said the kid needs to be sentenced to two years in a supposedly free country.

I'll quote the article because those who said this isn't protected under the 1st amendment haven't read the article

"This is a charge that was often used against people who burnt American flags in protest.
In Texas v. Johnson, Johnson was charged with Desecration of a Venerated Object for burning an American Flag during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas.

The case brought to light questions about whether or not expressive acts were protected under the amendment. The supreme court ultimately decided that the burning of the flag in protest was in fact, protected speech, since it was done in an expressive manner with obvious political intentions."


There was no obscenity, unless you are offended because he's shirtless.


Actually, if he used the pictures for "propaganda purposes", then he can be let off using the First Amendment. Read the constitution.

I'm trying to be serious about it, but that photo is just hilarious :D If he goes to jail then this basically just shows up the Christians for the morons they are.

Oh, most of us do :)

Some of us know better than others. Some of us also know the difference between privilege and responsibility, rights and consequences, and opportunity and freedom.

Not only christians, but muslims too. Because Jesus is one of their prophets.

P.S. I seen this photo at morning and it was the fastest awakening. :D

putting someone in jail for 2 years for taking a photo humping a statue is insane even if he was completely naked (which he wasn't).
was there any damage done to property or the well being of someone else? no.

unless he does this repeatedly and was already punished for doing it before but continues anyway this should be a 100$ fine at most.

Forget about fines or prison, it's only a minor issue in this case. Actually I think that he should be grateful for protection. Because there are incredible amount of religious fanatics who can kill him with very brutal manner. Public trial and symbolic imprisonment could be the only way to save his life.

Be sure not to set up any family pictures or plaque with your name and picture on them, then get upset when someone decides to publicly behave with it in such a manner that is both unprovoked and unwarranted.

I just love how it was because it was a "venerated object" what the hell happened to seperation of church and state? Who is to decide what is a jesus figurine and what isn't?

Is THIS a venerated object? 

https://i.imgur.com/Jmxfgjf.gif

It might be in bad taste but pretending to hump a plaque or Jesus isn't or shouldn't be against the law. People need get over themselves.

Are you kidding? Every time I look at that photo I start laughing LOL :P

What has that got to do with anything? People who think there's something wrong with the image need to get over theirselves.

This is a classic example of the exercise of free speech and to a degree, divergent views on the subject.

For this matter to even go to court would be very, very wrong.

There is no such thing as privilege in regards to freedom of speech and freedom of expression, people who say otherwise are trying to subvert it.

It's a right, not a privilege

He's 14, a teenager that did something stupid. He doesn't deserve to be arrested for what he did. At the most he should do community service, or be made to write an apology letter, or given a stern warning. This is a ridiculous waste of time and taxpayer money. PA should be ashamed for being so stupid.

Why should he apologize for dry humping Jesus?

Lack of respects of others beliefs. That's all.
Disrespectful behavior are reprehensible. Period.

Funny picture, though it makes me laugh also for the reason that merciful Christians want to punish this guy.Christianity is mired by hatred brought on by insecurity and fear. Fear of death and, of course, sex.

Clueless non sense.

This case reminds me of the time maybe 20 years ago that a famous entertainer was prosecuted for urinating on the Alamo in San Antonio,Texas.

The Establishment clause, google it

Great! So I can be disrespectful on homosexual all I want! Awesome  8)

 ::) ::)

Is that new that USA have plenty of stupid laws? No.

What does religious freedom have to do with disrespecting homosexuals? That's free speech, not religious freedom, unless you were implying that religion is disrespectful to homosexuals, which I totally agree with. Religion disrespects humans in general, mostly women.

Free speech can't be true without religious freedom.

Religion is a broad term you know? That claim just prove that you are mixing up everything and taking conclusions. Or maybe you can be more specific?

In America, when people say "religion", they often mean either Christianity, Judaism, or Islam

Ridiculous. This should at most get a lecture from a police officer to not be a public nuisance. Jail time for this is absurd. But then, the US is turning into a police state by the day, with one party wanting it to be a socialist police state and the other wanting it to be a theocratic police state.

Correct. In America, the vast majority of people are unaware that there are any other religions besides these three.

It's an unfortunate truth.

Are you shitting me? You are disrespecting others' belief's every day i GUARANTEE it.  Your lifestyle alone is a disrespect to that of other religions, sharing the same room with women? REPREHENSIBLE!! How fucking dare you disrespect the religions which belief in this stupid ass idea.

Get your head out of the sand and see that it's not someone's responsibility to respect all other cultures and religions. You deserve the right to think what you want and feel what you want and not be censored.  So long as he didn't cause any physical damage there should be zero punishment, and I mean zero.  If anything, society should be apologizing to this kid for shoving their beliefs down his throat for making a joke, which we've all made with various statues in parks, this one just happened to be of a guy who a minority of people consider to be sacred.  Do you think you should have to do community service or apologize every time you utilize a cow, drink it's milk or eat it's meat?

Thank you, you laid out my thoughts perfectly.

He better be glad it's just Christians calling for a jail sentence.

If this had been a statue of Mohammed there would be a couple of Billion Muslims calling for his death.



~BCX~

Apparently you believe you can think of anything that does fit your idea as 'disrespect' while you have your 'opinions'.

The kid obviously went out of his way to talk/act shit with people in a way that disrespected a group that did nothing to warrant a retaliation (fuck off with your bitching 'ahhhh those evil christians'). Now if this was a muslim statue then there would have been a probable cause.

Laughable you think you can act cheeky and hide behind your 'rights' and 'laws'. You lose those things when you step out of line by purposefully fucking with people. This kid obviously thought he could disrespect other people blatantly, without provocation, and get away with it.

This is a matter of putting a kid in line. Interesting people make excuses for muslim and non christian extremists, but are too happy to bitch about their 'rights' to people who they think they can hold hostage with them.

Emphasis on 'think' :)

How do we know Jesus didn't do this behind closed doors anyway?

Well making statues or images of Mohammed would be against their beliefs anyway so you're unlikely to see that, but what's the relevance here? You're comparing people who behaving irrationally to other people who behave even more irrationally as if that somehow justifies it. Christians need to get over themselves and so do Muslims and anyone else who gets offended by such instances of 'disrespect'.

If a bunch of christians or jews or muslims or any other religious peoples decide to desecrate atheist bill boards you better not make a sound.

Who said I was an atheist? And people are free to complain and cry all they want, but they can't or shouldn't be able to do fuck all about it other than whinge and whine. Meanwhile any rational people will just pity and mock them for being so sensitive and butthurt about a joke which they obviously can't take. Feel free to deepthroat any deity or person or billboard all you want and I wouldn't care.

LOL of course, everything is about you. I see only one whiner here.

People do this shit all the time, how are any of these any different than what this guy did? Is he any more juvenile than these people? Why do you think it's necessary to "put a kid in line" over this when I doubt you would feel the same about any of these people.

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Acting "cheeky" is no reason to loses your rights or laws, and how fucking dare you suggest it is. All of these statues depicted had creators and people who paid for them to be there, all of these people are "fucking with" those people by your definitions.  Except, they aren't, they are just having fun with a pose of a statue.  None of these people have done anything wrong, they are just having a good time, and sharing in the fun.  That's all this guy did. The fact that the statue is jesus or buddha or muhammed makes not one iota of difference.

The fact that you say "step out of line" terrifies me, you just want everyone to line up in their factory jobs, push their buttons and take their pills.  Stay satiated, don't question authority, do what you're told. Your refusal to see outside of the box you were placed in as a child is just sad.

I hope for all of our sakes that people like yourself come to your senses.

Why hide behind these cheeky things called "rights"? Who needs these things called "rights" anyway?
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Right. Stupidity doesn't equate to crime.

If we put all morons into prison, there will be no one left to run the country.

Why is it I have a feeling there will be an epidemic of Statute Loving in protest to this stupid event?

One rational comment, though.  The District Attorney took the case, this means there was a party who will go to court against this kid.  I assume that party is the church who owns the statute.

That's wrong.  If they just said they won't testify this all goes away.

BY THE WAY

Check out the movie, Rapture Palooza.  If what this guy did was bad, then that DA needs to ban that movie from his little control freak domain.

I wouldn't pay much attention to Honeypot. He's probably just another American fundamentalist Christian nutjob... or a troll. I can't take anyone seriously who thinks what the kid did in the photo is a crime. Juvenile? Sure, but people need to deal with it and get over themselves because nobody cares about your hurt feelings or whether you're offended or not.

Between people like Honeypot, BADecker, and Dank, I truly can't tell whether this forum is full of nutjobs or trolls. If they are trolling then they are succeeding on a professional level IMO.

You know, that's the problem, not the solution. 

HELL NO he should not have to plea bargain down and/or do community service, PARTICULARLY in a church.

There are different styles of offensiveness.  For example, point your middle finger in the air with some trees in the background, take a picture and post it on Facebook.

No big deal, right?

Now take that middle finger and superimpose it on (for example) Honeypot's face and post that on facebook.

Different, right?

As I understand the matter - maybe I am wrong - he didn't exactly do this act right when church was letting out.  He didn't have the church in the background.  He didn't keep at it after someone from the church telling him to stop or they'd call the cops.

Why? He hasn't done anything wrong.

:)

HAHA christ you people are too easy. Are you shits actually sympathizing with this kid, and what does that say about you?

It's good to see you stumbling all over yourselves and forgetting to check your mouth before talking shit in defense of this kid because I called you people out for being little hypocrites :)

Let's put it this way for you cheeky spoiled little shits. None of you are obviously ready to take what you try to dish out. Between your weak, asinine 'counter arguments' that try to hide behind everything except having to face the consequences of being called out, and obvious thin skin, you are clearly what you accuse the judge, courts, and prosecutors of.


A little too used to thinking you can get away with fucking with people, ain't cha? :D

He made his choice to willingly disrespect other people, specific group of people who he clearly believed he could get away messing with - don't even think for a moment anyone believes when you try to bitch and say otherwise.

Well, simply based on principle of mutual respect, he broke every rule in existence by doing what he did with obvious intent. Now you know you can't get away with this so easy on these kinds of people, so fucking check yourself.

Also, serious LOL @ people calling me anything in between 'inbred red neck' and 'fundamentalist christian extremist' :) Do you spoiled little fucks have any idea who you are talking to?

Immature kid swearing in every sentence foolishly thinking his profanities give his comments more weight?

Well said. Exactly what I was going to say. I always laugh at this child whenever I see his comments. Same old shit everytime. Make an ignorant statement then follow it up with the same you better check your mouth comments when someone puts him in his place.

:D

Always with the same wrong conclusions. How about telling me what points I made about mutual responsibility before pointing fingers?

I thought I might talk to your level of understanding - you clearly have no idea you don't deserve any better since your way of thinking is nothing significant, never mind 'mature' as you put it :)

Mommy, I'm scared.


BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yes he was making a peaceful protest against his distaste of the church, then jailed for it.

Just STOP for a second and think about that.

He made a peaceful protest and was jailed for it.

If you still don't understand read the above statement in bold again till you do.

Of course in your mind that was a threat :)

Don't even have to try now haha.

People like you Honeypot are a joke, too busy getting offended and angry over the most trivial bullshit imaginable while we have a worldwide great depression either beginning or in progress and World War 3 looming in the east.

Ain't that right :)

Look at this forum and tell me if these 'educated' people deserve any better.

Disrespecting people is something that people are allowed to do. Just because speech is unpopular does not mean it is illegal. Unpopular speech is exactly what the first amendment is designed to protect. 

Yes, they are free to do so, and also free to deal with the aftermath if the other one returns the favor. Your choice: Get sued and imprisoned, or get harrassed and lynched for messing with people.

In fact, I prefer the latter :)

You people are quite cheeky thinking you want to mess with people that you don't expect to kill you. What's happening is that people are trying to fuck with someone they believe are safe to do so. Well, you made your bed, now deal with it.

The constitution prevents imprisonment and lawsuits against you for saying unpopular speech.

I would doubt that anyone in the christian religion would do anything but think the boy is immature. It has been reported that the boy essentially was protesting the christian religion, which should be 100% acceptable.

'Protest'? Another cheeky excuse :D

This is no more speech then someone vandalizing abortion clinics, heckling uninvited at marriage ceremony, or pissing on your family grave because they want to 'protest' something. It's really amusing all these anarchist/freedom loving 'progressives' all of a sudden turn into legal experts when they want to hide their little attitudes behind the protection of law.

No, I'm not taking the bait. Your trolling. Nobody could be this stupid. A human lifeform couldn't be this braindead.

Trolling confirmed. Nice try honey. Better luck next time. LOL :D

Nope, no clue, please tell me.  What's your age, ethnicity, religion, and political background? Oh wait, it doesn't matter. Because all humans are equal and you are one asshole with a bloated head and ego.  You've completely ignored my well reasoned argument and just threw around more hate speech.



Wow, just...wow. You not only expect christians to kill people, but you PREFER it?  If you knew anything about the religion as it is in the west, they preach peace and pacifism even in the face of harm. Though they are not particularly good at it, it's what the entire foundation is based upon in the US. The level of close-mindedness you are exhibiting in your post is just plain incredible.

The fact that so called 'educated' people see nothing wrong with purposefully and knowingly offending a religious statue in public, yet can't even handle someone deciding against something as subjective and private as sexuality is incredibly amusing :)

You 'progressives' are a joke of outside 1st world. Hope you realize this and get it through to your head how spoiled and naive you all sound thinking this kind of childish asinine prank mentality is an acceptable way to think.

Face the fact that this kid got what he tried to dish out. None of you are capable of what you try to deal.

Purposefully and knowingly offending like this clown you mean:


Oh wait, that's you! :D
Just soaking up your comedy gold free speech double standards.

LOL :D

Progressive? I'm an Anarchist LOL :P Your religion is irrelevant to me honeypot, that's why I don't care about offending you and the fact that not offending you means locking up someone for saying or doing something where absolutely nobody has been physically harmed by means you're my enemy.

Your god is a piece of shit, especially if he advocates the locking up of someone for something so harmless.

Why do you speak so vaguely, you seem to not address anyone in particular, even when being directly addressed.  For all your talk about respect you certainly show none of it.

What are you talking about when you say "can't even handle someone deciding against something as subjective and private as sexuality is incredibly amusing?" What are you talking referring to here, please, honestly I'd like to know.

Guy ignore Honeypot. Nobody takes him seriously round here. He's just trolling you. He contradicts himself with nearly everypost, and as you said, nobody can be this stupid.

Really does show you that even if you think you are having a laugh and having some harmless fun it will all come back to haunt you in the end. As much as this would have been funny with anything else even I don't think it's as funny with a statue of Jesus. He should really think before he acts I guess, surely he would have known doing something like this and being photographed doing it would have caused some problems?

Perhaps his views tend to evolve, there are plenty of people I know with no definite views, they just disagree on whatever your view is.

:D

I believe I have stayed consistent in calling you out on hypocrisy with everything I said, but of course you miss the point ( or don't even want to think about it) every time. Instead, now it's supposed 'double standard' because I am supposed to offer civility or higher degree of conversation where none is needed (because you 'feel' it should be), especially with following people around posts to look for excuses - how obviously desperate do you have to get? :)

Really, you people are pretty damn funny when you try to be clever. Also, I don't believe I have ever stated Christianity is my religion, but the smart 1st world 'anarchist' :D knows better.

'Double standard' LOL

Do you people have any fucking clue how pathetic you sound when you demonstrate so obviously that you can't handle what you try to dish out? Obviously there's more then a few kids here that sympathize with this skinny little cocksucker :)

I fail to see why you consider critiquing one's body structure or sexual orientation may be deemed an insult.

Bet you he'll think twice about fucking with Jesus.  ;)

All you dumb ass liberals crying can go EAD. You play with fire you get burned. You have the right to free speech, but you don't have the right to trespass and feign sexual acts on statues.

Try not to pat yourself on the head too hard :D

WHY?  WHy should he see any sort of punishment?  Please do tell.

Because his rights end where my feelings begin

LMAO.. no

Pretty sure that was sarcasm

The most amusing part is that the said 'sarcasm' applies to themselves the best, as evidenced by this thread, but leave it up to these fools to spit lying down thinking it's clever :D

`spit lying down`? is that slang for scat sex? :-X

I think it is considered a lewd criminal act in public and he took a photo of it.  That was my understanding of the situation anyway.  I gave an opinion of how it could have been better handled from a rational viewpoint(IMO), while not trying to judge.  I hope that explanation clarifies my opinion on he matter better for you.

I sense sarcasm in your statement, however it technically does make a very good point. All that he did was offend people. Yes it was immature however there is no victim nor any potential victim in what he did. He has the right to express himself how he chooses, and he has the right to say things that are offensive as long as it is not something that would reasonably start a fight or danger to others (like saying "fire" in a theater)

I don't understand why you think he should be punished at all for this. It has been reported that he did this in protest against the church as he does not agree with the people of the christian religion.

I'm not saying he should be punished I'm saying he should atleast face a reasonable punishment if any at all.  If that act is considered illegal that is what I'm talking about, regardless of what I feel is fair or right, it doesn't matter in the least.  I'm not the DA I'm just stating what I think is plausible for someone to do in that position.  If people are angry about this including then it's likely some kind of punishment is to come.  My point is that the punishment if any at all should fit the crime simple as that.

I would argue that no crime has been committed. I would not be surprised if this case made it to the supreme court. It is clear that the DA is going to move forward with this case, and who knows how the courts will rule, but IMO his actions were clearly protected by the constitution.

Though I don't like what he did I don't think he should have any significant punishment.  It's disrespectful and in bad taste to be done in broad daylight in public but the is the long and short of it IMO.  I'd be interested to see how the supreme court would rule and I'd be surprised it the case made it that far honestly.

Why would it not make it to the supreme court? To my knowledge there has not been a supreme court case that involves the defacing of a religious statue in the way that it was "defaced" therefore there is not precedent for the lower courts to find him not guilty because of constitutional protections (especially the trial court). If the boy wants to stick up for his rights then he should escalate the case this high if he is tried for this crime, even if found guilty 

Not even this one?
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ETA:
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Well played, Google.

Alright, I don't know if your pun was intentional

Also,


Why not? Both rights are secured by the same constitutional amendment.

Isn't it interesting that the church doesn't like free speech when people choose to oppose them, but embraces free speech with great enthusiasm when it likes to spew out it's hate and bile against homosexuality for example.

Isn't that interesting. :D

Because the statute was not in any way damaged.    

Consider as an alternative if he'd stood there and put a stream of urine on it.  He could be considered to have damaged it.  But he didn't.

So the "Defacing" is completely in the mind and not in the physical world.  

There is no reason for this to go to the Supreme Court.  There is simply no legal argument against the kid except the ability and desire of the DA and/or the property owners to harass him.

Side note:  Of the people I know who consider themselves religious/deeply religious/fundamentalist I can't think of ANY who would condone prosecuting this kid.  Zero.

Some rich fundie probably wanted him behind bars

You sound "butthurt"(some pun intended)

Makes no sense

Actually, no.  Only a tiny minority of people who call themselves Christians spew out hate and bile against homosexuality, as the basic tenets of the religion aren't very oriented toward propagating hate and bile...

Exactly! A tiny minority. The same as the tiny minority that stick their cocks in religious statues.
So why all the hand wringing over it in this thread?

are you wearing flip flops? you're all over the place

?

Well, you started with a blanket statement about christianity, then got called on it, and attempted to cover your tracks by performing a complete 180

Firstly I never singled out Christianity at all. I've never even mentioned the word Christianity in any post. Where did that come from? Spendulus slipped a straw man fallacy under the radar with that one. As he knew full well, it was blanket statement about all anti-homosexual teaching religions. ::)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but nobody has attempted any 180 maneuvers in any way. LOL :D
What possible other realistic replies can someone defending give that I wasn't already expecting? The only sensible answer is to say "yeah sure it happens, but it's only a small minority". Which is exactly what I expected and exactly what I got.
So please explain how I apparently tripped up and needed to backpedal out of a hole? I await eagerly for your verbose reply r3wt.

Spendulus correctly pointed out the minority, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen and should be ignored. It shouldn't be happening at all!
What I'm trying to explain (perhaps poorly) is that it seems to me that there is one rule for the church (as in every church/religion) and one rule for everyone else that isn't in the system.

What about the annoying churchgoer that, uninvited, knocks on your front door and spews out a flood of religious bile in your face. "You should be doing this" and "You should believe in that" and then threaten you with fear "You need to embrace god or you won't go to heaven. You'll burn in the eternal fire." Funny how society accept this, yet if a door salesman did the same thing, told you to buy a product and threaten you with fear if you didn't, he would be in big trouble.
One rule for church, another rule for everyone else.

Funny how when this guy sticks his cock in church property they are all up in arms, "SEND HIM TO PRISION".
Yet the church has been sticking it's cock in society for years and years, and everyone just turns a blind eye.

So lets all just ignore the big elephant in the room (the church) and focus on the tiny fly (the guy in the photo).

No, I just think you are not seeing this matter clearly. 

A.  Bolded above.  He didn't stick his cock in church property.  That's the very point why this is unfair.
B.  It's not the question of "a small minority", but simply that a certain fraction of people in any group...a church group... an anti-church group...whatever....ARE COMPLETE ASSHOLES AND JERKS.  So to assign this behavior to "a group" is just wrong if it is just a fundamental part of a small minority of human behavior.

So if you want to slam on "religion" be my guest, there are many accurate things to say in the negative.  I see it in a different way, like most people in "a religion" are just in it for the daycare facility, maybe elementary school, maybe the marriage/birth/death ceremonies, and they shrug off the crazy belief systems.  But yes some fair fraction believe them.  Just remember that religions have survived for thousands of years, it's not because they were irrelevant quite the reverse.

and this is why country's go into debt, Just imagine what they pay to house and feed him for two years when instead he could be cleaning up the community doing service work.

I think that both have their right to their opinion and both have the right to protest when the other group is not advocating ideas that they agree with. Yes what this kid did was very immature and likely will not ever get anything changed what he disagrees with but he was within his rights to express himself this way

I agree with everything but the last part. he was not within his rights. He was trespassing, and desecrating a venerated object.

Well actually in this case
I guess he was asking for this so he deserves some time off that said would have given him community service or something along the lines
Lazy political system saying oh and I'm giving you jail time because well were lazy like that and don't want to think up productive ways for reforming or teaching you the errors of your ways.

This is exactly why this case would be accepted by the supreme court. I think this kid did actually break the law and should be found guilty for doing so. However I also think the application of the law is unconstitutional. It is very rare for a trial court to not enforce a law on constitutional grounds unless there is president from a higher court (either an appellate court or the supreme court), therefore the trial court would find him guilty but a higher court should reverse the decision.

Will go down as the same thing as the "bong hits for jesus" case.

http://law.onecle.com/pennsylvania/crimes-and-offenses/00.055.009.000.html

It's a real stretch, but I can see that charges could be brought under this statute.  It seems though that the issue is more the flagrant promoting of the activity on facebook than the activity itself.

Leviticus 26:1 " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God."

That Jesus statue was not even supposed to exist, for all those who claim he aggressed your religion

"Islamics" is not a word buddy.

Islamic
adjective
relating to Islam.

Islamics
Word not found

Even that only exists in some dictionaries, but I see your point now.

I would agree with this. I would also add the fact that if the boy were to lose at trial, but an appeals court were to rule in his favor that the law (as applied) is unconstitutional then the christian nutjobs would likely further attempt to appeal the case (to the supreme court)

its like if you own a tv show or network or bank, you're off the hook for saying whatever you want (south park) but if you're one guy having a little fun and you piss off the wrong judge, 'they throw the book at you'.

The DA involved with this case is named Bill Higgins.  If you are interested in getting involved with this case and standing up for your right for free speech then vocalize it on his facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Re-Elect-Bedford-County-District-Attorney-Bill-Higgins/175999609103029).


OR Feel free to reach out to him directly here: http://www.bedfordcountypa.org/District_Attorney.html

Petitions against a DA or a judge will almost never end in the way that the masses wish. The DA is to act when he is made aware of someone breaking the law (and has sufficient evidence to convict as such) and it is the judge's job to enforce the law as written. If you do not agree with a specific law then you would contact the legislature to try to get the law changed.

What law was being enforced in this case? I saw the DA's Facebook page, full of conservative Bush worship

Minor correction, there was never anything remotely resembling "Bush worship" or "conservative Bush worship".

Ridiculous worship of a political figure in recent years has been solely the property of Hussain Obama, and solely the domain of the Left.  A lot of them are now regretting their ridiculous behavior.

Here is something remotely resembling conservative Bush worship (https://www.facebook.com/175999609103029/photos/a.598716423498010.1073741825.175999609103029/675829069120078/?type=1)