to me the difference with the community center is that it's a building in a downtown area, and the only problem it poses is to the conscience of racist americans. as RP pointed out, they have a church on the street or named after it and there's no opposition to that. and jehova's don't come by that often and aren't camped out in your front yard loudly sermonizing you every weekend. they will leave if you want/
the main issue is to me that that it's been an ongoing thing where they are loudly reading bible verses and singing religious songs every weekend to people who obviously don't believe in their god, nor wish to endure attempts at conversion. they asked them (nicely at first i'm hoping) to please stop, and i don't think they're overstepping anything by doing that. I think the thing here that led to a confrontation was just that it was such an ongoing thing, happening for at LEAST three years by one account, one of the people in the video said 70.
why can't they take a cue from the bible and exercise some compassion and understand that we all support their right to believe in whatever myths they want, but when they start yelling it through peoples front windows for years on end it's going too far. i think the only reason it becomes a free speech issue is because it's a "respected" dominant religion and not some branch davidians or doomsday cult or...god forbid...atheists!
