Fr Joe,

You don't want to be near a Greek Orthodox Church at Greek Easter, road blocks everywhere. Even the local Catholics get in on the act, parading around the streets on their Saints holy day.

In line with Aristotle's comments " its not possible to force people to be virtuous but only to create society that encourages people to act virtuous".

1. You can't expect another culture to act to your standard of virtue- so you shouldn't let them in.
2. Muslims are even more different than Baptists and Greeks and so they should be even more restricted.
3. We should try to avoid letting dogmatic communists and "anti-aggressives" into positions of power because it makes the community vulnerable and unstable. Community is about using the power of cooperation to protect itself- if community doesn't protect itself it perhaps loses its mandate.

Paul et Toni,

I'll just quote Paul,
"You don't want to be near a Greek Orthodox Church at Greek Easter, road blocks everywhere. Even the local Catholics get in on the act, parading around the streets on their Saints holy day."

The point of the earlier post was not that Christians may block some streets with a parade, but that some other folk may have forced them to desist.
Trade unions and political activists also hold parades that block streets.

Don't worry Issy, when our merry band of forum "DICTATORS" take control, the only street parades will be the ones run by the RIGHT sort of people.

Issy, you"re up on the local lingo, what is the collective word for the forums collection of dictators. Is it the same as geese, one goose, or a gaggle of gooses!

Communists and Liberals make better dictators than Conservatives as they preach small government.

Paul,

Doing the usual obfuscating squirm won't help, you got it wrong.