The winter holiday season is off to a rousing start — with
“professional� Xhristians working as hard as ever to bring everyone in
line with their “values�. Here’s a story from Colorado. There will be
more. No doubt.
A Pagosa Springs [Colorado] resident is resisting an
order by her homeowners’ association to remove a peace symbol-shaped
wreath from an exterior wall of her home.
“I just wanted to put a message of peace out there,�
said Lisa Jensen, who hung the wreath Nov. 19. She said Wednesday she
didn’t intend the wreath as a statement against the Iraq war.
“I was really trying to be in favor of something – peace,â€? Jensen said.
She was informed by letter from the Loma Linda
Homeowners’ Association that “Loma Linda residents are offended by the
Peace Sign displayed on the front of your house.�
The letter, citing a use-restriction banning “signs, billboards or
advertising structures of any kind� within the subdivision without
prior approval, said the wreath had to come down by Friday, or Jensen
and husband, Bill Trimarco, would face a $25-per-day fine.
Jensen said Saturday that Friday’s deadline had come and
gone without contact from the board of directors. She was unsure of
how, if imposed, collection of any fine would be enforced, but planned
to leave all of her Christmas decorations, including the wreath, up
until after Christmas.
Homeowners’ Association President Bob Kearns said
Wednesday that the board had required another resident to remove peace
symbols a week before, and that property owner complied.
Jensen said the other property owner, a neighbor, had sunk skis
marked with peace symbols in his driveway as driveway markers. She said
the neighbor told her he was informed that residents were offended by
the posting of the peace symbols “while our country is at war.�
Kearns declined to describe the complaints he had received about Jensen’s wreath but expressed his own opinion.
“The peace sign has a lot of negativity associated with it,� he said. “It’s also an anti-Christ sign. That’s how it started.�
On Wednesday, every member of the subdivision’s
five-person Architectural Control Committee was asked to resign when
they collectively opposed the decision by the board of directors to
fine Jensen and Trimarco.
Pagosa Springs is a nice little community on the Colorado-New Mexico
border. You wouldn’t think — to look at it — that it was in the middle
of the bible belt.
From Dvorak Uncensored
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