To be honest I find it extremely sad that they chose to 'protest' this Catholic Youth Day. Imagine if the Catholics protested (by way of mockery) at humanist youth events, I think we'd all agree that's pretty out of order.
Protests at events are pretty common. There were mass protests in Edinburgh when the Pope visited, for instance. I don't think that people should be actually disrupting events by getting in the middle of them, but a nearby protest is fine by me.
I can see the validity of a protest against the Pope more than I can see the validity of a protest against a youth event.
Of course people are free to protest against anything they want - I'd fight to defend that right for everyone whatever their beliefs, but in the same way that I think that the protests of Fred Phelps are suspect I think some protests are more reasonable than others.
Absolutely. And if these were militant atheist types out to just cause trouble for people because they hate the idea of catholic kids having a good time, then I don't approve.
Not that I know much about this particular protest.
In my experience, there's usually a 'sense of humor' asymmetry in stuff like this. Which means that a) Catholics don't mock humanist events, and b) even if they did, the humanists would be able to take it.
I see no evidence that the RCC are 'unable to take it' (I'm not a RCC btw).
I suspect the RCC don't mock humanist events because they (at the corporate level at least) think that mockery is a poor way to interact with people of different beliefs.
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Of course people are free to protest against anything they want - I'd fight to defend that right for everyone whatever their beliefs, but in the same way that I think that the protests of Fred Phelps are suspect I think some protests are more reasonable than others.
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Not that I know much about this particular protest.
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I suspect the RCC don't mock humanist events because they (at the corporate level at least) think that mockery is a poor way to interact with people of different beliefs.