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http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,680193528,00.html

The company paid money for the advertisements. Yet the Mormon owner of the land (Barry South, of whom I know personally), got pissed and had the signs taken down.

I believe that this is total BS. What do you think Mormons? What happened to free speech? Freedom of expression? Religious freedom?

2007-07-01 11:39:41 · 14 answers · asked by Cheese and Rice 2 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

What you Mormons apparently don't understand is that the billboard was not an "anti-mormon" subject matter. It was simply a billboard for people that have left the church and would like to find other people with similar interests.

2007-07-01 14:51:04 · update #1

Sarah, I can also report messages from you that I find offensive, regardless of whether you think they are offensive or not. Keep that in mind.

2007-07-01 14:51:59 · update #2

Also sarah, your analogy is flawed since you don't own Yahoo. So it's not yours anyway.

2007-07-01 15:44:47 · update #3

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I have to direct this to Sarah, mormon mafiosa: The mormon church owns plenty of property in Las Vegas, many with billboards promoting gambling and looking at naughty women who will dance very close to you. Because these advertisements encourage people to frequent these establishments (many are owned and maintained by lds developers), money keeps pouring in and god's will is maintained.

I have no reason to not believe the internet will be the complete undoing of the mormon farce this century despite their unholy jihad against the infidels.

2007-07-01 15:03:10 · answer #1 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 3 1

Freedom of speech does not extend to forcing your views on someone else.

For a Mormon to object to the advertisement of an anti-Mormon sign is not a surprise and he has every right to demand that the sign be taken down.

You asked "What happened to free speech? Freedom of expression? Religious freedom?"

What happened to a man's right to say what he can and cannot do with his own personal property?

2007-07-03 22:41:33 · answer #2 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0 1

I don't know the whole agreement about the billboard but they should have discussed it before the sign went up. Barry South has the freedom of speech as much as Postmormon.org does.
This argument isn't so much about freedom of speech as it is a contractual argument.

2007-07-03 00:58:11 · answer #3 · answered by J T 6 · 1 0

If the billboards are on his property, then he has every right to have something removed that he found offensive. Which according to the story...that is EXACTLY what happened.

According to the Community Guidelines of this forum, if I find your questions offensive, then I can tell them and they will remove them. Same thing.

Edit: Am I the ONLY Mormon who is going to answer this question? I'm starring it ONLY so my LDS friends will see it.

2007-07-01 19:14:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

If the group wants to meet up with others who have found the truth outside the Mormon church, then what is the problem?

2007-07-02 08:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 2 0

Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to allow people to put up signs against your religion on your land. He owns the land and he can have what kind of signs on his land that he wants.

2007-07-01 19:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by Matt M 2 · 2 0

If they paid for the ad-space for a certain amount of time, and were not reimbursed, they should sue.

If they were reimbursed, it was still the anti-freedom of speech thing to do.... but a private landowner or business can legally do what they want as long as they abide by their contracts.

Does not make it right.

2007-07-01 18:43:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2 1

Oh come on. You know Mormons don't believe in freedom of expression. They only believe in religious freedom because it protected them from being slaughtered and now gives them the opportunity to try to force their beliefs on others.

2007-07-01 18:44:50 · answer #8 · answered by Laughing Libra 6 · 2 2

and yet it's FINE for them to put up all those bilboards and crap ADVERTISING mormonism! No problem with that...no! Seriously, these people consider getting new members as nothing more than a sales pitch. That's f***ed up if you ask me!

2007-07-01 19:07:56 · answer #9 · answered by 17*mezzo*17 3 · 2 2

yes. we have the right to speck our mind about mormons as they have to come our doors.

2007-07-03 21:22:11 · answer #10 · answered by Tinkerbelle2007 3 · 0 0

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