Yet Another Attack on Christianity in America II

Once upon a time the government obeyed the law. Now it ignores it at will, against the will of the American people, and very much so when it comes to persecuting Christians.

We have the Cross on Soledad Mountain in San Diego, the Cross at Joshua National Monument commemorating WWI Vets, the Crosses commemorating Utah highway patrolmen, and any number of government attacks on Christianity and Christian symbols. The latest coming to my attention is in Lyndon, Vermont.

A couple, the Downing’s, in their 70’s, have place a 24 foot tall lighted cross on their private property. This is no small cross to be sure, and it’s no small property either, being 800 acres. The cross is for a chapel they’ve built.

Some neighbors have complained they don’t like seeing a huge cross. They say it’s unsightly and doesn’t fit in with the ambiance or whatever of the countryside.

The kind of cross is called the Cross of Love of Dozule. Jesus is supposed to have appeared in the French town of Dozule, and told a resident to build a cross according to specific specifications. This cross on the Downing’s property is built to those.

Neighbor David Gascon: “It’s very large, and when they first put it up it was extremely bright, as bright as three full moons.” “It’s hard for me to see it as a necessary practice of religion. To me, it seems they’re just being showy.”

Giant showy lighted billboards hawking all manner of things are okay? What, Christians can’t be showy?

The ruling of the District 7 Environmental Commission: [the cross] “creates an adverse effect on the scenic or natural beauty of the area... “.  Billboards, windmills, radio towers and other such structures don’t?

The government and other anti-Christian bigots are using aesthetics as a basis for enforcing law?  This is private property, which the new Statist governments, local, state and federal, don’t acknowledge if it gets in their way.

 The Assistant Attorney General Robert McDougall thinks that religious liberty isn’t being curtailed if restricting the symbol doesn’t affect the practice of the religion. By that criteria, the government can have crosses on all churches, cemetaries, and all private property removed because they’re not necessary to practice the religion.

When it’s secular the governments have no problem with eyesores. If it’s Christian, then it must come down.

Of course the the Mosque of Triumph at ground zero gets a pass. It'll be huge, unsightly (not conforming to NYC architectural styles, and noisy with loud calls to prayer. 

Freedom of  Christian religion anyone?