Vandal Attempts to Blow Up Oregon Memorial Embroiled in Church-State Controversy

[WouldbeCentrist]

Vandal Attempts to Blow Up Oregon Memorial Embroiled in Church-State Controversy

"An attempt was recently made to vandalize a war memorial at an Oregon park at the center of a church and state controversy with an improvised explosive device.

An unknown individual detonated the IED near the memorial, located at Mingus Park in the City of Coos Bay, sometime late night between last Thursday and last Friday...."

Read the whole article at http://www.christianpost.com/news/vandal-attempts-to-blow-up-oregon-memorial-embroiled-in-church-state-controversy-103128/#LRBIBBUflJZAgtSj.99

[hunter]

1. Sounds more like, "Hey, hold my beer and watch this."

A serious vandal might have used a sledge hammer.

The memorial doesn't look big. Just how hard would it be to move it to a religious site and replace it with a non-religious memorial?

[cleanhippie]

2. Harder than one would think. Even here, you will frequently see posters saying its ok.

And that removing it is just plain mean.

[hunter]

5. Selling the land to a religious group might also work.

The Mount Davidson cross in San Francisco was sold to the Armenian American Organizations of Northern California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Davidson_%28California%29

This has been a common way of dealing with the problem.

I think it is a problem to have displays promoting Christianity or any other religion in public parks.

[rdharma]

3. I doubt that "IED" was an attempt to destroy the memorial.

Oh, puhlease!

[pinboy3niner]

4. The City Council meets late today to discuss--and possibly decide--the memorial's fate

City to publicly address Memorial controversy
http://theworldlink.com/news/local/city-to-publicly-address-memorial-controversy/article_439e42fa-003d-11e3-938a-001a4bcf887a.html