Taking down a poster a sin?

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TOP said:
As a matter of fact, my Priest during a homily representing the Church called slander/ gossip “murder committed by the tongue”. Tim
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Again, speaking the truth is not slander. Did Jesus slander the pharasis when He called them hypocrites?
 
jmcrae said:
Yes. Why should material encouraging hatred against Catholics be placed in a school? He was right to remove it.
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First off, the poster was NOT encouraging hatred against Catholics but promoting a film which denied the existence of God – no crime of hatred ANYWHERE!

Independent of that, the poster was not his. He had no right to take it because he disagreed with it.

By your way of reasoning, anti-Catholics should be allowed to take down Catholic signs because they disagree with them.
 
jmcrae said:
Either that, or removing an offensive poster from a school is actually not included in the crime of “vandalism.” 🤷
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Offensive? Would people who do not believe in Jesus be allowed to remove things which display our faith because it is offensive to them?
 
Sir_Knight said:
Removing physical property that is not your’s because you disagree with it IS immoral.
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Defamation of character because you dissagree with someone’s work ethic’s IS immoral by the same token? or is it “TRUTH”?
 
baltobetsy said:
No, it’s detraction.

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If a person sworn to uphold the law has a complaint and knows who is responsible but fails to act upon it, he is not doing the job that he is being paid to do. He has damaged his own reputation and nobody did it for him.
 
TOP said:
Defamation of character because you dissagree with someone’s work ethic’s IS immoral by the same token? or is it “TRUTH”?
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If somebody fails to do the job that they are paid to do, how is that Defamation of character? He isn’t paid to be judge & jury. He is paid to enforce the laws and IF (maybe you keep missing those two letters) he has a complaint before him and he knows who is responsible and fails to act, then he is not doing the job that he is being paid to do.
 
TOP said:
Defamation of character because you dissagree with someone’s work ethic’s IS immoral by the same token? or is it “TRUTH”?
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Might I suggest recalling the metaphor of the speck in your brother’s eye and the plank in your own? Trying to tear Sir Knight down is not raising you up any higher.
 
Sir_Knight said:
Removing physical property that is not your’s because you disagree with it IS immoral.
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Again, does this apply to publically displayed pornography?

And I seem to remember a LARGE group of posters defending the cops in (GA?) who tore down the posters of aborted fetuses and those showing abortions and destroyed the display apparatus from a pro-life group, on the basis that the posters were innapropriate and too gruesome for children.

Where are they now?
 
Sir_Knight said:
If somebody fails to do the job that they are paid to do, how is that Defamation of character? He isn’t paid to be judge & jury. He is paid to enforce the laws and IF (maybe you keep missing those two letters) he has a complaint before him and he knows who is responsible and fails to act, then he is not doing the job that he is being paid to do.
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Every person, no matter how great a sinner, has a right to his good name. When we expose a person’s faults without necessity, we commit the sin of detraction. What you may wish to argue here is whether or not you are speaking of this person’s faults with necessity. Or, since his name and location have not been disclosed, it may not actually be detraction.

Betsy
 
Sir_Knight said:
Offensive? Would people who do not believe in Jesus be allowed to remove things which display our faith because it is offensive to them?
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Weren’t aren’t discussing legality, we are discussing ethics or morality if you will. He didn’t ask if taking down a poster was legal…

Shoot, abortion is legal; doesn’t make it ethical.
 
baltobetsy said:
Every person, no matter how great a sinner, has a right to his good name.
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Unless, he, himself, damaged his own good name. If you hire me to do a job and I fail to perform it properly, would you be justified in giving me a good reference? I think not.
baltobetsy said:
When we expose a person’s faults without necessity, we commit the sin of detraction. What you may wish to argue here is whether or not you are speaking of this person’s faults with necessity. Or, since his name and location have not been disclosed, it may not actually be detraction.
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First off, the person has not been identified. Secondly, and I think that everybody keeps missing this, I’ve been saying that IF a complaint was filed and IF he was made aware of who was responsible and failed to act upon it, THEN he would be guilty of taking money without doing his job.
 
Sir_Knight said:
Offensive? Would people who do not believe in Jesus be allowed to remove things which display our faith because it is offensive to them?
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They are already doing so, and have been for years, in case you hadn’t noticed.
 
He_Man said:
Weren’t aren’t discussing legality, we are discussing ethics or morality if you will. He didn’t ask if taking down a poster was legal…

Shoot, abortion is legal; doesn’t make it ethical.
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Okay, if people disagree with our faith, are they within their moral rights to remove anything about our faith that they find offensive? I don’t think so.
 
Sir_Knight said:
Okay, if people disagree with our faith, are they within their moral rights to remove anything about our faith that they find offensive? I don’t think so.
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  1. Our faith is right, theirs isn’t. Like it or not, that’s the truth.
  2. Who says they aren’t?
 
jmcrae said:
They are already doing so, and have been for years, in case you hadn’t noticed.
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And does that make it right? No. And if we do the same thing that they do, what does that say about us?

What was it that Jesus said that even thieves trust other thieves? Aren’t we called to be better than that?
 
Mirdath said:
Might I suggest recalling the metaphor of the speck in your brother’s eye and the plank in your own? Trying to tear Sir Knight down is not raising you up any higher.
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Your right, I should not have resorted to such tactics.
 
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