Rich Roesler/SR Eye On Olympia In the Washington Capitol rotunda, Jeff Schumacher of Redmond, Wash., brought his own personal display to counter the atheists' display that counters the Nativity scene display.
Five days after a Wisconsin atheist group erected a small sign in Washington's state capitol declaring that there is no God, someone has stolen the sign. "We just heard that someone ran off with our sign," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Dan Barker said by phone this morning. "The capitol police are mortified. They're just as upset as we are. It's a theft, a crime committed under their noses." The sign was in response to a nativity scene erected by an Olympia-area real estate agent on the third floor of the capitol after a lawsuit. The capitol also features a 30-foot-tall "holiday tree," and last year, orthodox rabbis held a menorah-lighting ceremony in the rotunda/Rich Roesler, Eye On Olympia. More here.
Question: Good riddance? Or, how dare they steal that sign?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
erected a small sign in Washington's state capitol declaring that there is no God, someone has stolen the sign. "We just heard that someone ran off with our sign," Freedom From Religion Foundation co-president Dan Barker said by phone this morning. "The capitol police are mortified. They're just as upset as we are. It's a theft, a crime committed under their noses." The sign was in response to a nativity scene erected by an Olympia-area real estate agent on the third floor of the capitol after a lawsuit. The capitol also features a 30-foot-tall "holiday tree," and last year, orthodox rabbis held a menorah-lighting ceremony in the rotunda/Rich Roesler, Eye On Olympia. More here.
