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To: lightman
Blasphemy ping.

How so? This is not an image representing anything divine.

15 posted on 12/20/2006 5:33:33 AM PST by Lee N. Field
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To: Lee N. Field

Quite right. The correct term for this sort of thing is "sacrilege" ... Had they hanged, say, a "Sacred Heart" statue then a charge of blasphemy might be appropriate.


19 posted on 12/20/2006 5:42:10 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Lee N. Field
This is not an image representing anything divine.

From the article ...:

... whoever might have had a lawn ornament depicting the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus stolen recently.

65 posted on 12/20/2006 7:40:01 AM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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