Posted on 07/26/2004 5:46:07 PM PDT by wagglebee
A Hermantown church's display of crosses didn't sit well Wednesday with an unidentified driver.
Broken crosses littered the tire track-covered lawn of Gethsemane Covenant Church, 4479 Ugstad Road, on Thursday morning as volunteers surveyed damage to the "Cemetery of Innocence," a display of 400 three-foot crosses each representing 10 abortions.
More than 80 of the white PVC pipe crosses were knocked down or damaged, and some will have to be replaced. Lives represented by the crosses equal the number of abortions performed each day, said Jim Tuttle, Duluth branch manager of St. Paul-based Pro-Life Action Ministries, the group that manages the cross display.
"The crosses evoke a reaction -- sometimes it's shock when people recognize the extent of abortion, and sometimes it's anger when people are having a difficult time dealing with a personal experience," said Tuttle, who sets up the cross display at regional churches about six times per year.
The Rev. Steve Weihsmann, of Gethsemane Covenant Church, said the vandalism occurred between 5:30 and 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. He filed a report Thursday morning with the Hermantown Police Department. Department representatives did not return a telephone request for more information.
In Tuttle's three years of managing the cross display, this is the second time it has been vandalized. Two years ago, crosses were knocked down when the display was set up at Central Assembly of God Church in Superior.
Nobody was arrested in either incident, so the motive remains unclear.
People need to be shocked and horrified about the reality and extent of abortion.
This is a Hate Crime, unfortunately, even though gays, blacks, minorities, etc, tec, are covered under the Hate Crime laws, Christians are not. Write your legislature.
" so the motive remains unclear."
It was against a Christian principle - therefore it cannot be a "hate crime"
Ah, those tolerant liberals. (Sarcasm)
She probably has a seat on the Democratic National Committee as well.
I think that gets the list of suspects down to under 20 people (if the cops needed any help with this one).
Or, alternatively, Barry Lynn did it all himself this time!
"DEFINITION OF A HATE CRIME
This year the Indiana General Assembly passed bias crime reporting legislation that defines a bias crime as follows: "an offense in which the person who committed the offense knowingly or intentionally:
(a) selected the person who was injured; or
(b) damaged or otherwise affected property by the offense because of the color, creed, disability, national origin, race, religion, or sexual orientation of the injured person or of the owner or occupant of the affected property was associated with any other recognizable group or affiliation." (Section 1. IC 5-2-5-1; House Enrolled Act No. 1011, Effective July 1, 2000; emphasis added)"
It looks like Indiana allows reporting of "bias crimes", but it does not yet punish them in any particularly defferential manner.
I might can throw the vote in Arizona, which can throw the Electoral College, which will determine who will be prez.
Now Republicans. The only answer I'm taking is the baby body count answer.
Typical lefty response to the truth.
It is getting to the point that no conservative based "statement" can be made without vandalization.
I know there are south florida democrats just waiting with spray cans at the ready for the Bush signs to go up.
I hope they have a secuirity camera at the ready.
The next driver who tries to run a bunch down will get a surprise
But don't you see - Christianity is the religion of the evil, racist, sexist, homophobic white males who founded this terrible country, which only started to progress in the 1960s. Acts committed against oppressors cannot properly be called hate crimes, or crimes at all, really, as they are merely reactions to centuries of oppression.
Liberals seldom have the courage to come out and state their actual belief as I did above. But if you read some of their more forward thinking legal scholars like Lani Guinier, etc., you will soon find that this is indeed the underlying dogma. This is the reason that members of designated victim groups are rarely charged with a hate crime - though there might be a case or two where it was done for "window-dressing" purposes, much like the ACLU defending a Christian every now and again. We have to continue to pull the mask off these people and expose them for what they really are.
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