North Carolina City Ordered to Remove Memorial Featuring Soldier Kneeling before Cross

ChristianHeadlines.com ^ | Monday, January 12, 2015 | Carrie Dedrick

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North Carolina City Ordered to Remove Memorial Featuring Soldier Kneeling before Cross

Carrie Dedrick | Editor, ChristianHeadlines.com | Monday, January 12, 2015

A city in North Carolina has removed a war memorial featuring the silhouette of a soldier kneeling before a cross after a group complained that the sculpture promoted Christianity.

According to Fox News, a public park in King, North Carolina housed the statue which had been paid for privately.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State sued the city on behalf of Afghanistan War veteran Steven Hewett who said that the memorial was not representative to others he served with in the military.

In a news release, Hewett said, “I proudly served alongside a diverse group of soldiers with a variety of different religious beliefs. The City of King should be honoring everyone who served our country, not using their service as an excuse to promote a single religion.”

According to the settlement, King is required to pay Americans United for Separation of Church and State $500,000 for court costs. The King city council voted last Tuesday to remove the memorial in an effort to prevent the legal costs from growing even higher.

After the vote, City Councilman Wesley Carter was quoted as saying, “I feel this city has been sabotaged and bullied by folks who don’t believe in what this community stands for. I feel like we have been pressured by insurance companies and attorneys who have never been to King. They don’t know what we are about and what this community stands for.”

[Rodamala]

I recall one time the family all piling into my uncle’s Suburban to go out for a drive to see the Christmas lights in Nazareth, PA. There was one house in particular that was just over the top with more decorations in the yard than you thought could ever fit... all accompanied with obnoxiously distorted music... anyways, my uncle commented, as we passed the nativity set up on the center square, that because the town was founded by the Moravians, the “public” square is actually owned by the Moravian church next to it... and the atheist complainers are promptly told to go pound sand when they want Nazareth... a town named after the childhood hometown of Jesus... to take down the nativity scene.

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Thanks. This picture should be posted throughout the area with a ‘Don’t serve or speak to this man’ label. He needs to be hounded out of town and if possible the state.