valentine's day - no, shakespeare - yes


	valentine's day - no, shakespeare - yes

acrv56

2-15-2006 3:35 AM

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2-15-2006 4:53 AM

Guillaume

"harm the feelings of devoted Muslim" ???

Come on, this is becoming ridiculous. Everything we could possibly say or do would hurt the feeling of "devoted" this or that. If we enforced every religious belief of every existing religion in our daily life, what a dull nightmare it would be...

2-15-2006 7:31 AM

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