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California Christians Fight Back Against
City Removing Cross

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Posted By: OhioNick, 4/18/2024 12:12:41 AM

A California Christian club is fighting to put their cross back on display after city officials used eminent domain to remove it while citing complaints of it being “reminiscent of KKK cross-burnings” and offensive to “diverse communities.” The Albany Lions Club had maintained their majestic 28-foot cross and lit it up for the Christmas and Easter holidays to send “the message of God’s love” and be a “comfort to the Christian community” since 1971, a press release states. [SNIP] According to the civil liberties organization Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), there were “no objections” to the cross until 2016 when an “atheist group raised a complaint."

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Reply 1 - Posted by: danu 4/18/2024 1:55:00 AM (No. 1701367)
stop pandering to God haters/land grabbers. the Almighty should likewise be spared their hate speech fta The structure was erected on private land owned by one of the club’s members, but that land is now part of a dispute with the city of Albany, which seized the plot last year.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: minuteman 4/18/2024 3:04:33 AM (No. 1701376)
For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God Maranatha
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mifla 4/18/2024 5:19:06 AM (No. 1701406)
The Dems refuse to see the linkage between moving away from God and moving towards ruin.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: petrichor 4/18/2024 6:25:57 AM (No. 1701435)
FTA: “Apparently, according to the Court, only a church or religious group has a right to free exercise of religion,” That's not how the Bill of Rights works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 4/18/2024 7:35:31 AM (No. 1701462)
Another indication of how badly our courts have become.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 4/18/2024 11:34:04 AM (No. 1701646)
Anti-Christian haters everywhere.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 4/18/2024 11:48:11 AM (No. 1701656)
One point missing from the article: on what basis did the city exercise eminent domain to seize the property on which the cross stood? If the city seized the property in order to take down the cross, that is a clear violation of the First Amendment. If it legitimately seized the property for some other reason, the issue becomes a little less clear. The situation certainly seems as if the property was seized in order to take down the cross, even if they officially had another reason.
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