Let us wish Anne an especially hot and sulphurous Mothers Day and Annie Laurie, may a suckable tailpipe come your way soon.
Posted on 05/12/2019 12:31:10 PM PDT by robowombat
GOTTA LOVE TEXANS: Look what they did when radical Wisconsin atheist group demands that crosses be removed from courthouse
Elected officials in an East Texas community defiantly illuminated the crosses on their courthouse after an atheist organization told them to take them down. The move came after the county judge and commissioners voted unanimously to keep the four crosses on the county building.
Breitbart News reported that the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) complained to San Jacinto County public officials about the prominent display of the “Latin cross[es].”
The foundation issued an “Action Alert” to its supporters on May 7th saying, “A concerned Coldspring resident reported to FFRF that San Jacinto County has the crosses up all year round and even lights the crosses during the holiday season.” The organization that calls itself a “nonprophet nonprofit” asked members to “Tell San Jacinto commissioners to remove courthouse crosses.”
Instead, local residents filled the large parking lot to the shelter. They also filled adjacent parking lots in a strip center and a community building across and down the street from the shelter. Vehicles lined the roadway coming into the town, and there were 600 to 700 residents in a building designed to seat 500.
Approximately 45 San Jacinto County residents signed up to address county commissioners in support of the crosses. People displayed large crosses and some wore shirts bearing “All in For Jesus” and other religious expressions.
A church member from the nearby town of Point Blank summed it up, “This is a standing room only crowd. This is a standing room only kind of community, and this a stand for a Jesus kind of crowd.”
William “Maddog” McCulloch, “invite[d] those people from Wisconsin to take the cross off my house.” The veteran warned, “It’s going to weigh a lot more when they leave.” “Go back to Wisconsin. This is Texas.” Another Coldspring resident dared, “Come and Take It.”
Terry Holcomb, Sr. a political activist and pastor of a small rural church near Coldspring, lit up the room when he told the foundation to “Go suck a tailpipe.”
Dwayne Wright, who serves as the county’s GOP chair, took this photo and posted it on his Facebook page saying, “THIS is how we roll in San Jacinto County! Not only did we not cower to the Wisconsin Whiners, we Lit Them Up!” Residents of the county of just under 29,000 people celebrated on social media after it saw photos of the illuminated Christian symbol on the courthouse.
Thomas Lowe reminded about the persecution of Christians around the world. “First they start with symbols, and then they go to Christians.”
Kimberly Young identified herself as someone “with a lot of spiritual beliefs besides Christianity” but she came “to help you keep your crosses.”
Resident Cloresa Porter warned, “The devil is alive” and “political correctness is a one-way ticket to Hell.”
James Holcomb and other students at Calvary Christian Academy spoke at the meeting. Holcomb called the demand for removal of the religious symbol “unjust.” “The foundation of this town is built upon God, and just because you cannot respect that, doesn’t mean you can take it away from us.”
Breitbart News has reported about FFRF efforts to regulate other types of expression, including speech in other places in Texas.
Several years ago, the organization told Hondo, Texas, it should take its iconic signs down. The signs in the community of 9,000 say, “Welcome. This is God’s Country. Please Don’t Drive Through It Like Hell.” The mayor was reported to respond, “There’s no way in hell we’re going to take those signs down.” The signs have existed since 1932 in the city just 40 minutes west of San Antonio.
FYI: FFRF never goes after Muslim symbols.
demands that crosses be removed from courthouse
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
Hey, these crosses are not from a law from congress
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
And, they may even be a free excercise thereof!
And what is the judge telling them?
Sorry, another case of reading the title and commenting, before reading the article.
I’m proud of these people here in East Texas......I happen to be one of them. Don’t mess with them.....their guns, their Bibles and their crosses. Someone mentioned “judges”....I’ve heard what we’ve always believed....that too many “judges” have directed their WILL without question on so many of these religious matters and people are sick of it. If no one likes to see these crosses, keep your noses and azzes outta San Jacinto County as well as many places in Texas!
Just what makes these cheeseheads think that Texans will listen to the about anything? Hubris anyone?
If a Texan supported this manure isn’t he required by law to kick his own ass?
These are NOT cheese heads, These are plain old $hit heads.
Let us wish Anne an especially hot and sulphurous Mothers Day and Annie Laurie, may a suckable tailpipe come your way soon.
So let me get this straight - a group of activists from Wisconsin decided they didn’t like something that was going on in Texas and ordered them to change it? And expected any other response than this?
People full of JEALOUSY...Atheists, can almost never be satisfied with reality.
Same thing happened in Athens, Texas some years ago. A group from up north decided the Nativity in front of the court house ‘offended’ them. People turned out in droves to support the religious display. My daughter was one of them.
The problem is that lawyers (who then become judges) are taught case lawm already settled cases, instead of reading the law as written and following the Constitution.
I believe this is the same group that went after our community for having a nativity on courthouse yard (there were other symbols also). Have sent article to our commissioner.
We too are standing up to them. Lawyers have been hired! It will cost them to take on our community.
Resident Cloresa Porter warned, “The devil is alive” and “political correctness is a one-way ticket to Hell.”
Worth repeating.
The Wisconsin I was born & raised in is not the current version of the state.
Proof that athiests are NOT content to let people be and MIND THEIR OWN DAMNED BUSINESS.
These women would do well to study what happened to another infamous woman and her kin, Madelyn Murray O’Hare.
If a Texan supported this manure isn’t he required by law to kick his own ass?
They’d better hurry because they’re gettin’ their azzes kicked by the rest of us regardless........LOL
Get a rope!
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