Michael Shockley’s letter to the editor titled “Rehoboth shouldn’t allow protest on holiday weekend” is the most un-American thing I have ever read. His suggestion that we should suspend the First Amendment so he doesn’t have to see anything he disagrees with on a religious holiday weekend shows a complete lack of understanding of the principles our country was founded on. It’s the same First Amendment that allows him to worship freely in the first place. Would he like it if Rehoboth denied people’s right to go to church downtown in the summertime because the town needs parking for families who spend the day at the beach (and more money in town)?
If you have no respect for other people’s First Amendment rights, why should they respect yours? The price of freedom is putting up with things you don’t agree with. Anything less is un-American and highly offensive to those of us who love this country.
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