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.”

[robowombat]

Where is King, North Carolina? Is this real or a hoax?

[BenLurkin]

[illiac]

Per gargle maps:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/King,+NC/@36.2246444,-80.3849355,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88524c35769a10ff:0xe589ed05664c1abd

[WashingtonSource]

The Commie Anti-American Fags at Americans United for Separation of Church and State win another one. Where are the lawyers defending America?

[Jacquerie]

So that silhouette cost a town’s taxpayers 500 grand.

There is little time.

[Da Coyote]

Just do not do it.

And publish the address of the official who ordered it.

And make them afraid.

Really.

It’s time to stop this sh*t.

[punknpuss]

Where is the ACLU?

[WashingtonSource]

This is not far from the city that was the model for Mayberry in the Andy Griffith Show. What woudl Sheriff Andy Taylor have to say about this.

[cld51860]

Dude, Where’s My Country?

[eyeamok]

$500,000 for court costs.

Pull a Sharpton, Just Say No, and don’t pay them

[Doogle]

Where are the lawyers defending America?

..their getting into politics

[kingu]

There’s a lot more to the story. Google King, North Carolina, most of the sources are Gannet and therefore can’t be linked from here. It involved sponsored prayers at city events, individuals who flew a Christian flag at the memorial, and the ‘statue’ which was a piece of cut out flat metal which was also apparently put up by individuals and not actually part of the city memorial. City paid $500,000 from their insurance plus $1 compensation for the plaintiff.

[DesertRhino]

A lot of their power comes from scaring us into obedience. The city should simply ignore the order. If they fine you don’t pay. Make them send Feds to remove it. Videotape them, embarrass them.

[Bob434]

it’s real- Liberty legal experts may take up the case- people can’t just say “I’m offended- you must remove soemthign I don’t like” because courts aren’t there to protect our delicate sense or feelings- it’s there to protect our RIGHTS- hopefully the folks from liberty university will win this and send a very loud clear message that it is against the law to suppress the RIGHT to freely express our faith in public

[I want the USA back]

This is the only country that is willingly bringing about its own demise.

[robowombat]

Thanks. I am a little familiar with the area having acquaintances from Mt. Airy. Instead of bending to these scum the town of King could invoke sovereign immunity as a government entity and tell those suing to take a hike. I am sure the locals would enjoy defending their town from any attempts to seize property. Until government officials are willing to ‘interpose’ local will against the secular humanist swine we will be abused and sold down the river while the mudslimes flourish and dare anyone to look askance at the works of the pedophile prophet (May He Burn in H=ll).

[Bob434]

[[Where is the ACLU?]]

Probably too busy defending the terrorists in FRance-

[robowombat]

‘There’s a lot more to the story. Google King, North Carolina, most of the sources are Gannet and therefore can’t be linked from here. It involved sponsored prayers at city events, individuals who flew a Christian flag at the memorial, and the ‘statue’ which was a piece of cut out flat metal which was also apparently put up by individuals and not actually part of the city memorial. ‘

There was a time when I would have agreed these activities should be sanctioned. With the Jihad on the march no more. In fact I would stand behind any town or city that flew both or either the Christian Flag and the Mogen David and declared their town to be be one where no Muslim could live or even set foot.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I wish it would care even half as much about the One who died on a cross as it does about crosses.

[ctdonath2]

But...je suis Charlie, right?