Posted on 03/04/2014 4:05:27 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
The funny thing is this property has DEvolved in centrality, from state to local. The less central, the more rights the locality has to do what it likes, and not try to avoid all hurts and boo-boos.
I wonder if somebody would want to collect up all these now-unwanted crosses and such, and place them in a private memorial dedicated to unwanted memorials.
It is said that Erik Clapton and Jerry Garcia among others went to see Buchanan at the Cross Roads. I don’t know, I went many times during my time at the University of Maryland just up the road in. College Park.
The legend was that he turned down an offer to join the Rolling Stones, but that’s hard to believe. I was and still am a big fan of his.
After all the stink in San Diego, I was wondering when the azzhats would attack the “Peace Cross” in Bladensburg. Since the cross was erected by the American Legion, don’t they have to take it down?
Unless they can conclusively determine that the WWII heroes who actually died would have objected to the memorial or that a substantial number had an alternate religion, this objection should not stand. American soldiers were overwhelmingly Christians at that time, or had accepted that the nation was overwhelmingly Christian and founded on Christian moral principles. Back then, even men who were drafted had the option of conscientious objection. If they served, they deserve their Christian monument: “Greater love has no man than he lay down his life for his friends.”
Just down the road from that memorial, the strip malls of Bladensburg contain thousands of acknowledgements of her atheism: fast food joints, strip clubs, dirty magazine shops, pawnbrokers, used car lots...
The priest at my Catholic church summed it up perfectly tonight when discussing this subject on Ash Wednesday Mass: “Of course some people will be offended [about this Bladensburg cross issue]. And most offended is the Evil One himself and all of his followers!”
Perfect.
Oh, the humanity!
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