The girl is dead. Who are they trying to protect?
And doesn't cemeteries normally remove dead flowers and whatnot that people put on graves? Wouldn't they have eventually done this for *THAT* grave if the father hadn't made an issue out of it?
And why couldn't they have just quietly done their normal process of garbage collection on this particular grave and not make it into an incident which reflects badly on everyone?
This thing has the potential to come back and bite Reverend Ford in the butt. His behavior strikes myself, and apparently others as very "unChristian."
“You’ve got a deed that says ‘no boxes.’ You’ve got a gentleman who’s been told ‘no boxes’ by a city lawyer in uncontroverted testimony. You’ve got a gentleman who says – and this is frankly where I lose my patience – ‘I don’t care what the rules are and what the law says, I’m going to do what I want.’ Well, he’s not. It’s a clear case of a violation of this deed,
I’m sick and tired of lawless scum.