Crossing Up the Ungodly

Judi McLeod:

Whiteville, TN Mayor James Bellar may have come up with a way to (at least figuratively speaking) skin the atheists and their lawyers.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) which legally sees to the removal of any sign of religious activity or symbol under penalty of lawsuit threat, recently took it upon itself to slap a lawsuit on the Town of Whiteville for having a cross on top of its water tower.

Trying to avoid costly litigation in the middle of a Recession, the mayor came up with his own original way to beat the rap: He brought in a crane and had one arm of the cross removed in protest.

If the mayor still finds himself in court, he can honestly claim that FFRF is seeing things because there is no cross atop the Whiteville water tower.

But anyone who sees the one-armed reminder of where the cross once stood will vividly remember how it came to be.

James Bellar proves there is at least one American mayor, not goose-stepping to the march of the UN which controls through Agenda 21 many, if not most, civic governments; one mayor who truly lives up to the courtesy title of “His Worship”.

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