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St. Obama Candle Lights Catholic Protest
worldnetdaily.com ^
| February 16, 2009
| Drew Zahn
Posted on 2/17/2009, 4:13:34 PM by kellynla
A priest in California is outraged at a novelty store's large display window of "Saint Obama" candles displaying an image he says "depicts our beloved saints in a not so saintly way."
The candles feature President Obama's head atop the body of St. Martin de Porres, a Peruvian-born Dominican friar, who became one of the first black saints in the Americas upon his canonization in 1962.
Rev. Tony La Torre of St. Philip the Apostle Church in San Francisco says the candles, sold by the Just for Fun store for $15, "mock and ridicule the Catholic/Christian faith."
"I am appalled," La Torre wrote in a recent parish newsletter, "that in such a family-oriented neighborhood, any retailer would be so bigoted and so hateful (as) to carry such merchandise just to 'make a buck.'"
Just for Fun owners Robert Ramsey and David Eiland, however, say they've done more than "make a buck" – they've made thousands.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:13:34 PM
by
kellynla
To: Salvation; NYer; narses; A.A. Cunningham
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:14:02 PM
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: kellynla
Liberalism is a ‘religion’ to its adherents.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:15:10 PM
by
Badeye
(There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
To: kellynla
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:15:40 PM
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: kellynla
"mock and ridicule the Catholic/Christian faith."Yes, shouldn't he be on a candle with a turban and curved sword?
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:21:16 PM
by
DTogo
(Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
To: kellynla
free speech can be ugly sometimes, but sure beats the alternative
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:21:25 PM
by
MoreGovLess
(Seek justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God (Micah))
To: kellynla
People who buy stuff like this are either severely stunted emotionally or just lay-down-in-the-road stupid.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:25:10 PM
by
reagan_fanatic
(Dissent Is Patriotic!)
To: MoreGovLess
“free speech?”
this is sacrilege and if this had been a muzzie, the MSM would have been all over this like white on rice! Catholicism...the last "safe" bigotry.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:25:33 PM
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:27:36 PM
by
Vaduz
To: kellynla
Found at a Borders store in Dallas
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:31:28 PM
by
John123
(The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
To: All
JUST FOR FUN
3982 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone: (415) 285-4068
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:32:11 PM
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: John123
“Found at a Borders store in Dallas?”
What did you find? LOL
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:33:32 PM
by
kellynla
(Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
To: MoreGovLess; kellynla
The candle is a kind of speech/expression (symbolic representation) and the priest's objections are speech, too. If people picket the place (I hope not: too much free publicity) and if people boycott the sellers, that'll be speech, too.
So it looks like speech vs speech to me. One thing we can still do in America. So far.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:43:09 PM
by
Mrs. Don-o
("It is our choices, far more than our abilities, that show us what we truly are. " -- J.K.Rowling)
To: kellynla
“Catholicism...the last “safe” bigotry.”
Add Southern whites too....
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:43:34 PM
by
Fu-fu2
To: kellynla
GOD, I don’t even know how to pray about such hidiousness.
PLEASE HAVE YOUR WAY WITH SUCH CLUELESS FOLKS.
In Jesus’ Name.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:51:18 PM
by
Quix
(POL BOSSES say fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: kellynla
They have stolen the image of Saint Martin.
To: kellynla
That’s nothing.
I touched the hem of Obama’s garmet and was healed of a pain in my hip. (He made my wallet disappear.)
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:59:03 PM
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: kellynla
I don’ think he’s mocking Roman Catholics; this mocks Obama and his ilk.
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posted on
2/17/2009, 4:59:56 PM
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
2/17/2009, 5:15:07 PM
by
MoreGovLess
(Seek justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God (Micah))
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
2/17/2009, 5:15:08 PM
by
MoreGovLess
(Seek justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God (Micah))
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