Don't cross the atheists
How's this for a "non-secular" compromise?Love him or hate him, (being a news guy, I've always loved him) Salt Lake lawyer Brian Barnard is constantly mixing it up with The Man.
This time, Barnard is in Denver at a federal appeals court trying to tear down Utah's "heroic-sized" crosses that honor fallen highway patrol troopers. This is something you'd better believe bends The Man way out of shape—even more than Barnard's case to put the Seven Aphorisms next to the Ten Commandments in a public park in Pleasant Grove.
A lower court ruled Utah's trooper crosses are simply a secular symbol of death. But Barnard and the American Atheists say the 12-foot crosses are, duh, a religious symbol on public land.
Barnard argued that by appearing out of context to motorists along the highway, the humongous crosses broadcast that the trooper who died was a Christian.
Here these crosses stand alone. There isn't anything else nearby that says they're not religious in nature.
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When Barnard dies I am going to leave a big pile of horse shit on his grave as a symbol of all that he fought for!
I'm atheist, and I've never been offended by crosses or any other religious symbol.
"Being a news guy..."
Really? Is that what this is?
I like Barnard too. He's fiery and helps keep Zion honest. We need more like him.
I don't believe in Barnard.
But, I suppose, if he did not exist we would have to invent him . . .
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