@LoztInSpace said:
Apparently there is something about church goers that means they don't get the treatment that jdavidbakr would normally like to dish out. Why is this? What would be the case if it were a synagogue instead of a church? What if it were the KKK, some bizzarro sheep molesting organisation or a group that asserts that cheese is better than grapefruits? Why does anything calling itself a religion get treated with kid gloves when it is no different from rhetoric spouted from a nutter with other unsubstantiated, random assertions?
My point, as well you know, is that why hold back from doing something you think you should because you might offend some specific group as opposed to anyone else.
Think of it this way: if you were running a business site, and a potential customer did this, would it be worth losing the sale to "teach them a lesson?" If it was my web design site they stole, I don't think they are a likely candidate for becoming a customer, obviously they are too cheap, so I'd be more likely to make the pages nearly impossible to use. But from the church perspective, we're not only representing our church but we are also representing Christianity in general - and there's already plenty of bad press about Christians. And a church is held to a higher moral and ethical standard - and rightly so. So it is my responsibility to uphold this standard.