The following is a report of a very weak-kneed response in Australia. Australia has no 1st Amendment so there was no legal need to respond at all
"A single complaint has forced the removal of an illuminated crucifix display in Warrnambool, potentially ending a four-decade Easter tradition. Resident Graham Keith told The Standard he objected to the "religious advertising" at the west Warrnambool water tower and said it should be removed.
The company behind the display, Wannon Water, has confirmed the cross will be taken down following the complaint. "The complainant claimed that the cross on the tower was inappropriate as Australia has a secular constitution and therefore a religious symbol has no place on a publicly owned structure," said Wannon Water managing director Grant Green.
"Following consideration of this issue, Wannon Water resolved not to proceed with a long-term lease of air space on the water tower to Warrnambool City Council," he said. The council moved the cross to the water tower in October after its former position was deemed structurally unsound.
Unless the council is able to find a new location, the annual display - which began in 1967 - may be lost forever.
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Like Britain, Australia is a very irreligious place so that may be part of the reason why the placing of the cross was not defended.
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What he should have done is place a small cresset next to it. Problem solved. No one would DARE ask for THAT to be removed. If they did, beheadings all around.
Just goes to show how pathetic and weak their society has become. Don’t worry America is just behind you on the road to ruin!
"Don’t worry America is just behind you on the road to ruin!"
For conservatives. LOL.
"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedoms and liberties than is terrorism..."
"Political correctness is a greater threat to our freedoms and liberties than is terrorism..."
Both are manifestations of narcissism.
a dozen trucks with illuminated crosses should be parked in front of his house for a month.
The idiot who complained has drawn the scorn of the majority of the population of Victoria, both Christians and atheists, who condemn the idiot who complained along with the private company who caved on the basis of one complaint which has no legal standing in this country. Because it was private property (all water companies in Victoria have been privatised) the council was unable to object.
I love my state but sometimes idiots hold sway.
-btm
@Nutcase, you are dead-on. The surest way to guarantee that a Christian symbol is kept is to put a Muslim symbol next to it.
Which is exactly why that's not done.
Put a big crescent and star on the watertower and omg, they would have a parade for the city council and water company. good ol australiastan.
Political correctness is just another word for socialism
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