this week in aggravating baptist billboards

[st_emma]

I don't drive through that part of town often so apparently I missed it, but there was a bit of an uproar involving the Baptist church signs that led to two letters to the editor and, from what I can gather, no small number of angry calls to the mayor's office and the local Human Rights Commission. From what I can gather, it went a little something like this:

Church puts up typically offensive billboard, reading "Homosexuality, like all sin, is ungodly and unhealthy."

This being a relatively liberal and tolerant community, the predictable outrage ensues, and the church is forced to take down their billboard. It is then replaced with one reading "Creation promotes the sanctity of life. Evolution degrades it." Never mind that reason and science are celebrations of that which makes human beings different from the non-reasoning animals. Since when has reality ever played into these people's belief systems?

It's hard to say for sure, but I suspect that this may have gone down shortly before the "You have a problem with God & the Bible, not the church" billboard. It certainly would explain its defensive, hostile tone in a way that really nothing else would.

Kudos to my community for standing up against bigotry.