Mass. city orders removal of Virgin Mary statue

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May 18, 2013, 01:42:34 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2013, 01:44:32 AM by Gottmitunsalex
May 8 2013
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Officials in West Springfield have ordered a local pizza parlor owner to take down a statue of the Virgin Mary he put on a city-owned traffic island because it's in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.

Antonio Liquori of Liquori's Pizza says he put the statue up last year as part of a city beautification project in which business owners adopted traffic islands to maintain.

Liquori tells WWLP-TV (http://bit.ly/13xoWQv) he recently received a letter from the City's Deputy Director of Operations, Vincent DeSantis, saying there have been several complaints about the Madonna statue. The letter read: ''Unfortunately, in this day and age, religious artifacts are not to be displayed on city property.''

DeSantis said business owners will now only be allowed to decorate traffic islands with flowers.

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/people-protest-virgin-mary-statue-removal

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwEmnT3lk8[/yt]
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Petertherock

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May 18, 2013, 06:35:41 AM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on May 18, 2013, 01:42:34 AM
May 8 2013
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Officials in West Springfield have ordered a local pizza parlor owner to take down a statue of the Virgin Mary he put on a city-owned traffic island because it's in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.

Antonio Liquori of Liquori's Pizza says he put the statue up last year as part of a city beautification project in which business owners adopted traffic islands to maintain.

Liquori tells WWLP-TV (http://bit.ly/13xoWQv) he recently received a letter from the City's Deputy Director of Operations, Vincent DeSantis, saying there have been several complaints about the Madonna statue. The letter read: ''Unfortunately, in this day and age, religious artifacts are not to be displayed on city property.''

DeSantis said business owners will now only be allowed to decorate traffic islands with flowers.

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/people-protest-virgin-mary-statue-removal

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwEmnT3lk8[/yt]

Can someone show me in the US Constitution where the separation of Church and State is?

Darryl
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Adeodatus

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May 18, 2013, 11:08:39 AM
Quote from: Petertherock on May 18, 2013, 06:35:41 AM
Quote from: Gottmitunsalex on May 18, 2013, 01:42:34 AM
May 8 2013
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — Officials in West Springfield have ordered a local pizza parlor owner to take down a statue of the Virgin Mary he put on a city-owned traffic island because it's in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.

Antonio Liquori of Liquori's Pizza says he put the statue up last year as part of a city beautification project in which business owners adopted traffic islands to maintain.

Liquori tells WWLP-TV (http://bit.ly/13xoWQv) he recently received a letter from the City's Deputy Director of Operations, Vincent DeSantis, saying there have been several complaints about the Madonna statue. The letter read: ''Unfortunately, in this day and age, religious artifacts are not to be displayed on city property.''

DeSantis said business owners will now only be allowed to decorate traffic islands with flowers.

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/people-protest-virgin-mary-statue-removal

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPwEmnT3lk8[/yt]

Can someone show me in the US Constitution where the separation of Church and State is?

I cannot read the Constitution... there's the muddy boot print of some goose stepping Communist Masshole obscuring the text.
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MilesChristi

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May 18, 2013, 11:11:49 AM
he should tell them he ain't moving it, and if they try to remove it, two more will take its place.
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

mikemac

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May 18, 2013, 12:31:54 PM
Quote from: MilesChristi on May 18, 2013, 11:11:49 AM
he should tell them he ain't moving it, and if they try to remove it, two more will take its place.

For sure.  This is sad.  Kudos to 22 News for covering it.
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Heinrich

#5
May 18, 2013, 12:42:28 PM
The sad thing is is that some queer group has a corner and that is perfectly "within limits of the Constitution."
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