Some Catholics in New York are having their parking tickets cancelled because, after all, it’s just tasteless to give parking tickets to Christians. This kind of thing really makes me cross. It’s not just that these people have been given special treatment because of their religion, it’s the way the article ends with, “it’s unclear whether the agent [who gave out the tickets] would face any disciplinary sanctions”, as if by any concievable logic he should. Why is there such a compulsion to treat people’s idiotic beliefs with so much respect?
The Raving Atheist parodies the article beautifully, and The Third Kind makes some very good points about it, leaving me with little else to add.
what does religion have to do with parking tickets?
My point exactly. So why are these people being let off just because they were illegally parked to go to church?