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Keep in mind that this is relativly old news, but it could spark an interesting debate on religion and the state, or homosexuality....
A familiar News of the Weird character, the indefatigable gay-hating Rev. Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., announced in October that he would take advantage of the Casper, Wyo., City Council's earlier decision to allow a religious monument (the Ten Commandments) in a city park by erecting his own religious monument: a statue celebrating the 1998 fatal gay bashing (and descent into hell) of Casper's Matthew Shepard. (A U.S. Court of Appeals had ruled that a city cannot discriminate among religious messages.) The City Council subsequently decided that its Ten Commandments monument was a bad idea and voted to remove it and ban all religious messages from the park. [Casper Star-Tribune, 10-6-03]
Source: MSNBC News of the wierd
http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/shepard_monument.html
http://godhateshomophobes.com/
Free speech at it's finest(or it's worse)......
Well if that thing went up i think there should be a monument erected condeming the hicks that murdered him.
I'm glad that they ruled no religious messages in the park, seperation of church and state(public property) is for the best. Course there are plenty of people in the US that think church should intermingle with state........ they are not aware of the double edge sword they would be weilding
http://www.godhatesfa
gs.com/images/shepard_monument.jpg
A familiar News of the Weird character, the indefatigable gay-hating Rev. Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., announced in October that he would take advantage of the Casper, Wyo., City Council's earlier decision to allow a religious monument (the Ten Commandments) in a city park by erecting his own religious monument: a statue celebrating the 1998 fatal gay bashing (and descent into hell) of Casper's Matthew Shepard. (A U.S. Court of Appeals had ruled that a city cannot discriminate among religious messages.) The City Council subsequently decided that its Ten Commandments monument was a bad idea and voted to remove it and ban all religious messages from the park. [Casper Star-Tribune, 10-6-03]
Source: MSNBC News of the wierd
http://www.msnbc.com/comics/nw.asp
http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/shepard_monument.html
http://godhateshomophobes.com/
Free speech at it's finest(or it's worse)......
Well if that thing went up i think there should be a monument erected condeming the hicks that murdered him.
I'm glad that they ruled no religious messages in the park, seperation of church and state(public property) is for the best. Course there are plenty of people in the US that think church should intermingle with state........ they are not aware of the double edge sword they would be weilding
http://www.godhatesfa
gs.com/images/shepard_monument.jpg