Do you have a problem with pre-meditation? Murder is murder.

If in each case, you deliberately murdered someone? No, I don't care if you planned it out or not.

it does seem like they're trying to scoop me up before another department gets to me.

This is how it should be. I am so excited for you!!

Also, theft is (IIRC from law school) the taking of the property of another without their consent. The church gave the wafer to the kid, he didn't sneak into the vestry and take it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the church shouldn't have a problem with it (well, maybe I am, but I can see how they would), but calling this a hate crime is hyperbole. Plus, the removal of the wafer from the church as NOT motivated by bias, so IMNSHO, neither "hate" nor "crime" is applicable here.

from The Sun: S&M Barbie lashed by public

The doll’s image is transformed with kinky fishnets, motorcycle jacket, black gloves and boots.

Makers Mattel say Black Canary Barbie, out in September, is based on a DC comic superhero of the same name.

But religious group Christian Voice said: “Barbie has always been on the tarty side and this is taking it too far.

A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

Go here for a picture: BDSM Black Canary Barbie

I think Black Canary Barbie is hot....

Although you can charge someone with a crime against an entity (say, bank robbery), that law is clearly codified. Further, how was the church harmed by this?

Well, they do pay for the things.

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Well, they do pay for the things.

Huh. I thought Jesus left them outside the door overnight.

If in each case, you deliberately murdered someone? No, I don't care if you planned it out or not.

So someone who tracks someone for a week or two and plans a way to kill them is the same as someone who, in the course of an argument, picks up a butcher knife?

Huh. I thought Jesus left them outside the door overnight.

That's just silly.

Jesus can't bake. In fact, he sucks at it.

The Holy Spirit, I'm told, makes some kickass hash-brownies, though.

While you are clearly expected to ingest the wafer in the church, there is no stated rule that you must.

I think that there is, but I don't remember. Not *rule,* rule, like No shoes, no soul, no service. But there is a rule (doctrine?) that non-Catholics cannot take Communion. And I don't bring that up as proof that one must consume the eucharist in the church; I only point it out to offer an example of a "rule" regarding Catholic Mass.

And I'm pretty sure that another rule is, If You Go Up To Take Communion, You Consume It Right Away.

A children’s doll in sexually suggestive clothing is irresponsible – it’s filth.”

EXCUSE ME? Where were they when the Bratz dolls came out? Or even regular Barbie? I had to buy one for a Santa thing last year, and I could only find ONE barbie that didn't look like a 'ho.