Posted on 12/23/2014 10:50:35 PM PST by balch3
Susan Hemeryck, 54, tried removing the display Tuesday, and when the Capitol Police told her she couldn't, she began ripping it apart. She was arrested and charged with criminal mischief. The display had been erected as a satire by an atheist group to counter a nativity scene, which was taken down the day the Satanic Temple installed theirs.
"It's just wrong, when you remove baby Jesus two days before Christmas and put Satan in his place ? that just can't happen. I couldn't allow it to happen," said Hemeryck, who said she was wearing a shirt that said "Catholic Warrior" when she arrived at the Capitol. "I was there at the right time and the right moment and I needed to take a stand against Satan."
Atheist groups last year began taking advantage of the Capitol's free speech zone after a Christian group installed a manger scene showing the birth of Jesus. The display last year included a Festivus pole in tribute to a holiday created on "Seinfeld" that satirizes the commercialism of Christmas and a display by the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster, which mocks beliefs that a god created the universe and argues instead that the universe was created by a plate of pasta and meatballs.
The Satanic Temple display was rejected as "grossly offensive" last year, but this year ? following threats of legal action from the Americans United for Separation of Church and State ? the state Department of Management Services gave its approval.
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Good for her. For that purpose, I too am a Catholic Warrior!
Wise up Susan, be more stealthy.
More balls than 99.999% of the FReepers who bloviate about the left.
We Freepers are smarter than to get caught ... and you will not taunt us into revealing our works.
The state should have fought to prevent the satanic display from being erected in the capitol, and unfortunately it took a brave woman being arrested to remove the satanic display.
It’s still there and now they are using it against us.
Porgal said he plans to leave the display in its damaged state “as a sign of what the religious right’s idea of tolerance is.”
What is being used against us?
Porgal of course is an antagonistic jerk, but Susan effed up.
Read post #8
Yes, she should have left it there and done nothing. /s
I’ll tell you the same thing as the radicals marching for trayvon et al.
Go home and pray, stop wilding.
You don’t have a clue. Or get one.
I never said she should do nothing, but that is basically what she did.
Worse, it is being used by smarmy jerks against us.
You know the drill.
You get a dozen times the scrutiny because non believers think you think you are the incarnation of Jesus himself.
All of this is BS of course, but they hate Christians because they think they are hypocrites.
Of course any Christian who gets it knows we aint perfect, just forgiven.
Problem is you allow one religion in, you gotta let them all in. Everyone loves seperate on on church and state. I prefer separation of state and church. Keep religion out of politics.
I hope they prosecute the hell out of this woman for destruction of property.
She will get a minor fine, but she gave the opposition a gift.
I've got a lot of problems with you people!
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