Old Lady Dobener and Her 25ft Cross

This is a very good example of the "little old lady goes to church on Sunday and does no harm" part of the debate. This time is is an actual honest to God real human hella old lady in Los Angeles.

72 year old Laly Dobener can't understand what all the fuss is about. I mean, gee wiz, all she did was erect a 25ft cross, complete with yucky blood stains (paint) where JC's hands and feet were stapled...on her front yard. One neighbor said something like when you turn onto our block it looks like there is a church there. Old Lady Dobener, she says, is only expressing her religious freedom and is confident that her free speech is protected. So...WTF.

This is the part of the debate that I personally have been thinking about a lot. As all you kind gentle and very good looking readers all know, I've been sitting on the fence as whether to become a full fledged angry atheist, or remain an accommodationalist. This is a litmus test.

So hypothetically there is a little old lady that goes to church on Sunday and she does no harm. Should I hate on her. What can I possible blame her for. The same goes for Old Lady Dobener. What harm is she doing me by erecting a ridicules 25ft cross on her front yard. I don't agree with it, but really...WTF.

I'll tell y'all WTF. As I mentioned before if you had an abusive someone in your life, wouldn't you say or do something before they got hurt or hurt someone else (I would). Well, that is how I see church membership. I could not belong to a community where the leaders were sexist and homophobic. My personal salvation is not more important than members in my group being treated fairly. We all get treated equally and fairly and that is that.

Last year there was a really weirdo dude here in Sac Town that put a Nazi flag in his front window. The flag didn't really harm anyone, but the city made the weird guy take it down (I forgot the reasoning tho). Old Lady Dobener's hideous 25ft cross is not *harming* anyone one, but does she have the right to do that.

I say make her take that ridicules cross down, chop it up into firewood and make her pay for it. There must be some city building code stuffs that she violated (really, you can't erect a 25ft anything on your front lawn). What would happen if we put the Scarlet-A, a 25ft one, on our front lawn, would people get mad and would they make us take it down. I'll quote Sarah Palin...

"You betcha."

* SF Gate

* Sitting on the fence.