Universal Hate

While surfing the web, I came across this piece of news. It is about a student at Gatech who sued the University for restricting her right to free speech. To quote the article,

Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant.

Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she's a senior, bans speech that puts down others because of their sexual orientation.

Malhotra sees that as an unacceptable infringement on her right to religious expression. So she's demanding that Georgia Tech revoke its tolerance policy.

Now different people may react to this news in different ways. But since my first reaction to this was, 'What the c#$% !!!! I never knew I had so much religious freedom!!!!', I have decided to explore how this allows me and others to further our religious beliefs.

1.) Since religion itself is a very ill-defined term, Nazi's can claim that their religion compels them to protest against the equal treatment of non-Aryans.

2.) Some people could claim that their religion compels them to protest against equal education and employment rights due to women. (This incidentally, would be highly detrimental to the girl in the above news item.)

3.) Muslims could claim that their religion compels them to protest against the existence of kaafirs.

4.) Hindus could claim that their religion compels them to divide people into castes and discriminate against them.

5.) Proponents of Intelligent Design could claim that their beliefs compel them to protest against science.

I can only shudder at the thought of all the fun we could have if the said girl wins her case. Since any belief system can be defined as a religion and everyone has freedom to hate SOMEONE, we can all have a field day protesting the existence of some group of people. Then finally, the human race can have an activity that keeps all of them busy and out of harm's way.