At least, one alderman does...
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Alright, so the gist of the link:
Alderman Darrell Leftwich thinks that soccer should be banned in White House Municipal Park on Sunday mornings because it happens to coincide with the time church services take place. I don't even think I have to elaborate about why this is a problem.
The alderman feels that the seventh day is a day of rest and worship, and should be spent as such. A friendly dissenting alderman points out in the article that the seventh day is actually Saturday, and urges that the matter be looked into further. I urge that it be dropped altogether.
The obvious dissenting opinion here is that we live in a country where we are guaranteed religious freedom, and you can't tell people what they can and cannot do on Sunday mornings as long as it is within the law. Playing soccer is not illegal, and you can't make it illegal just because someone wants to play at the same time that you attend church.
Honestly, what does this alderman think will happen? Does he believe the people who were playing soccer on Sunday mornings are going to go to church? They were playing soccer INSTEAD OF going to church. Taking away the game isn't going to drive them to religion, it's going to drive them to another park, and it begins to drive theocracy into this town. What next? Football. Let's just see how far they get when they try to touch that.
I'd like to end with a quote from Alderman Leftwich:
"I understand that people have a freedom of choice as to whether or not they attend church, but I still think that we, as a city, should send the right message to the community and restrict the hours of play."
You think that you, as a city, should send the right message? What message, that I can't play soccer on sunday because you go to church at the same time? In fact, that I can't do anything on Sunday because you go to church at the same time?
And you understand that people have freedom of choice about whether they go to church or not, huh? Well, do you understand people also have freedom of choice as to whether they play soccer or not? Do you understand that they have freedom of choice as to whether they sit on a ratty couch in swiss-cheese boxers eating Hot Pockets and watching the NFL? Do you understand that there is freedom of choice as to whether or not you want to worship fire as long as you don't bother anyone else with it? Do you understand what freedom of choice is?
No, you don't.