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Title: Fire department bars book-burning


bluebutterfly - July 14, 2004 04:15 PM (GMT)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- A church's plan for an old-fashioned book-burning has been thwarted by city and county fire codes...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Midwest/07/12/no.book.burning.ap/

earthmother - July 14, 2004 04:25 PM (GMT)
So, they stopped this based on fire codes and air pollution problems, not on the basis of censorship and closed-mindedness. Maybe there should've been fire codes around during the Salem witchhunts . . . :rolleyes:

bluebutterfly - July 14, 2004 05:11 PM (GMT)
All I can think of and do think of is doesn't this black and white, good vs. evil obsession make them all bi-polar, schizophrenics?

They feel the need to break off parts of their lives and destroy them as "evil" without realizing good vs. evil is in man's humanity and inhumanity to his fellow man.




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