I’m glad you love your religion. Good for you! But did it ever occur to you that maybe all that clanging and banging is annoying to others? And why in God’s name did you start doing it at 7 a.m.? What precedent are you trying to set? What if the nice Muslim people decide to start screaming praises to Allah at 5 in the freaking morning? How’s that gonna be? What if I’m a really excited Satanist, and I decide to blast “Hell’s Bells” by AC/DC from concert stacks at 3 a.m.? I guess that’s protected speech, too, right? For the love of … er, God … tone it down. Christmas is over. And go back to 9 a.m., please.
Sean Shealy
San Luis Obispo
This article appears in Jan 2-12, 2025.
Your concern is of the obnoxiousness of the sound, not the concerning nature of the salvation army’s practices? You don’t care about the fact they turn away all sorts of people, especially LGBTQ+ people, you just wanna complain about how annoying the ringing is at 5 am…. okay? There are many larger problems to be writing about, but I guess that’s protected speech too, right?