Plainfield VT: Police Probe Burning of Cross in Front of Church....Dean Country!!

Portland Press Herald | 12.27.03

[mlmr]

I had to type this in, I could not find it on the web site: It was in the New England section of the Saturday Portland Press Herald:

Police On Friday were Investigation a suspected cross burning in front of a church in the center of town. Police found a charred 5-foot tall cross in the fornt of the Grace United Methodist Church on Christmas Day.

Police belive the cross was burned on Christmas Eve or early Christmas morning.

The cross was crudely made and wrapped in fabric, said Lt. David Hafington of the Vermonet State Police. "We're hoping that somebody may have seen something or heard something to give us some indication of what this is all about," he said. "We don;t know if this is someone who is mentally ill or if this is someone's idea of a sick joke."

[mlmr]

This was in the Portland Press Herald, Portland Maine. It is interesting that the police consider this a sick joke or a mentally ill person. What happened to just plain evil?

[Arpege92]

It's pretty sad when things like this still go on!

[mlmr]

Still? How often are crosses burned in front of Christian churches on Christmas Eve?

[Viking2002]

Probably one of Dean's Wiccan constituents sending winter solstice greetings.

[vetvetdoug]

This can't be happening in the North. Everyone knows there are only Klansmen in the South. (Truth be known, there have always been more KKK's in the North than in the South)

[mlmr]

LOL. But sadly, what other time is something burned on the lawn of a house of worship and the news is buried like this?

[mlmr]

Why would it be KKK? It just struck me as so anti Christian. Think! What kind of media would happen if a Star of David was burned in front of a Jewish temple?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Will Dean do a Clinton and reminisce about all the times during his childhood,that he saw crosses burning at churches ?

[Viking2002]

If that cross was burning in a black man's yard, ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN would have mobile crews airlifted to the site before the flames died. One more indication that there is a definitive 'us vs. them' in this country, like it or not.

[mlmr]

Don't get me wrong I want the publicity when a black family, or any family gets intimidated. I just would like to see that extended to Christian congregations.

[Viking2002]

Exactly my point, hence the 'us vs.them' mentality currently being fostered in this country.

[Arpege92]

"How often are crosses burned in front of a Christian churches on Christmas Eve?"

None that I'm aware of. I was disgusted about a cross burning and knowing that it occured years back, I'd just assumed that we have moved past that.

[armymarinemom]

Heck no big deal that this happened up north. The first daylight parade of the KKK was in Milo Maine 1923. History of Milo

[Thor_Hammar]

Bill Clinton: Ah, remember black churches burning when ah was a boy in Arkansas.

[Note: It never happened.]

Howard Dean: Aye, remember the black churches burning in Vermont when aye was almost a man.

[mlmr]

Does anyone know how to contact the New England Chapter and the Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont boards? I havent been able to figure it out.

[VOA]

Maybe this was somebody's subtle reminder to a nutty liberal congregation about
the reason for the season...
(in today's New England, that's not a totally irrational angle)