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rug

(82,333 posts)
Tue May 27, 2014, 04:17 PM May 2014

Omaha Radio Host Says Atheists Should “Shut Up” About Mayor’s Comments. Later, He Agrees with Them

May 27, 2014
By Hemant Mehta

Yesterday, I posted about how La Vista (Nebraska) Mayor Douglas Kindig (below) allegedly told an atheist to “take me to fucking court because I don’t care” and “Minorities are not going to run my city” after the atheist expressed concerns about possible church/state violations at a “Faith & Freedom Day” hosted by the city.

It only took a few hours before local radio host Tom Becka of 1290 KOIL-AM radio decided to chime in on the incident.

At first, he was just frustrated with the atheists, telling them to stay silent about all of this because it just wasn’t a big deal:

I don’t think anybody’s rights were being hurt. I was not at the event last Sunday… but if they’ve got a pancake breakfast and they’ve got a carnival there, my guess is you could avoid the faith part if you really wanted to. My guess is that you could go and have a nice pancake breakfast, put the kids on the merry-go-round, and enjoy yourself on Sunday without having to worry about the religious part, which is probably a pretty small part of the day. Right? So, as such, just shut up.

But the issue isn’t that anyone was “hurt” or that it was too hard for families to side-step faith. The issue was that the government was promoting an ostensibly Christian event and that may have been a violation of state law.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/05/27/omaha-radio-host-says-atheists-should-shut-up-about-local-mayors-comments-later-he-agrees-with-them/

Audio at link.
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Omaha Radio Host Says Atheists Should “Shut Up” About Mayor’s Comments. Later, He Agrees with Them (Original Post) rug May 2014 OP
Hilarious. This is what happens when you try to make a case where there cbayer May 2014 #1
So now Mehta's pizzed cuz the radio loud-mouth came around to Mehta's PoV? struggle4progress May 2014 #2

cbayer

(146,218 posts)
1. Hilarious. This is what happens when you try to make a case where there
Tue May 27, 2014, 04:24 PM
May 2014

is absolutely no case to be made.

Glad he stepped all over himself.

struggle4progress

(118,032 posts)
2. So now Mehta's pizzed cuz the radio loud-mouth came around to Mehta's PoV?
Tue May 27, 2014, 05:45 PM
May 2014

Does Mehta want to win politically -- or does he just want to feel self-righteous?

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