Montana's Jesus Statue

[Ibanez]

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Montana's attorney general said Wednesday that he supports keeping a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus next to a Whitefish ski hill as a group of atheists and agnostics seek to remove it from U.S. Forest Service land.

Attorney General Tim Fox and the American Legion filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it considers the legal challenge by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Fox is asking the court to uphold a federal judge's August ruling that allows the Forest Service to reissue a 10-year permit for the statue that has stood at Whitefish Mountain Resort for decades.

You guys have a Jesus statue on a hill?

[kalm]

I always thought Our Lady of the Rockies was kind of cool when visiting Butte. Didn't realize it's the second largest statue in the US.

[CID1990]

One of the most famous landmarks in the world is a statue of Jesus on a hill.

[Pwns]

FFRF logic...erecting a statue of a person amounts to deification of that person. No statues are erected of a person out of reverence for that person of course. Using that logic, the city of Seattle thinks Lenin is a God.

Idiots.

[Ibanez]

FFRF logic...erecting a statue of a person amounts to deification of that person. No statues are erected of a person out of reverence for that person of course. Using that logic, Americans must think Lincoln is a god.

Idiots.

[Grizalltheway]

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Montana's attorney general said Wednesday that he supports keeping a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus next to a Whitefish ski hill as a group of atheists and agnostics seek to remove it from U.S. Forest Service land.

Attorney General Tim Fox and the American Legion filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it considers the legal challenge by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Fox is asking the court to uphold a federal judge's August ruling that allows the Forest Service to reissue a 10-year permit for the statue that has stood at Whitefish Mountain Resort for decades.

You guys have a Jesus statue on a hill?

A mountain Ibanez. A MOUNTAIN.

[kalm]

FFRF logic...erecting a statue of a person amounts to deification of that person. No statues are erected of a person out of reverence for that person of course. Using that logic, the city of Seattle thinks Lenin is a God.

Idiots.

Huh?

[Grizalltheway]

FFRF logic...erecting a statue of a person amounts to deification of that person. No statues are erected of a person out of reverence for that person of course. Using that logic, the city of Seattle thinks Lenin is a God.

Idiots.

But the city of Seattle does think Lenin is a god.

[VictorG]

Hands off Jesus!!!!

[89Hen]

the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation

DB's outfit?

[Ibanez]

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You guys have a Jesus statue on a hill?

A mountain Ibanez. A MOUNTAIN.

Hill, mountain. Whatever.

[Grizalltheway]

I always thought Our Lady of the Rockies was kind of cool when visiting Butte. Didn't realize it's the second largest statue in the US.

Butte looks so nice from far away.

[kalm]

I don't have much problem with the statue being there but it's kind of sad…the need for an homage to Jesus, when you have the miracle of God's creation all around you.

[CAA Flagship]

It's funny how you guys gaga over erosion.

[VictorG]

I don't have much problem with the statue being there but it's kind of sad…the need for an homage to Jesus, when you have the miracle of God's creation all around you.

That's BUTTE!!!!!!!

[kalm]

I don't have much problem with the statue being there but it's kind of sad…the need for an homage to Jesus, when you have the miracle of God's creation all around you.

That's BUTTE!!!!!!!

Shut up Victor!

[VictorG]

That's BUTTE!!!!!!!

Shut up Victor!

But...but....but.....That's BUTTE!!!!!!!

[Grizalltheway]

He was referring to the one in Whitefish, fyi.

[VictorG]

He was referring to the one in Whitefish, fyi.

I was referring to the picture of the one overlooking Butte....

[Grizalltheway]

I know. But there's no controversy surrounding that one, and it isn't Jesus.

[93henfan]

There's a big Jesus-on-a-stick on US Rt 1 about a mile south of where I live in N Stafford VA (the Aquia crucifix). I don't mind the statue. It's the 60 Mexicans standing around it at any given time and their four minivans half on the shoulder that bother me.

[VictorG]

I know. But there's no controversy surrounding that one, and it isn't Jesus.

Really? Every time I see people see it for the 1st time they say "Jesus Christ".......come to think of it they may just be referring to Butte.....

[grizzaholic]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/08/mo ... eral-land/

Montana's attorney general said Wednesday that he supports keeping a 6-foot-tall statue of Jesus next to a Whitefish ski hill as a group of atheists and agnostics seek to remove it from U.S. Forest Service land.

Attorney General Tim Fox and the American Legion filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it considers the legal challenge by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Fox is asking the court to uphold a federal judge's August ruling that allows the Forest Service to reissue a 10-year permit for the statue that has stood at Whitefish Mountain Resort for decades.

You guys have a Jesus statue on a hill?

And it isn't the big one. I am so confused as to why people care.

[grizzaholic]

Hands off Jesus!!!!

If Jesus had a double barreled black stout that was aged for 6 years in his hand, Pols would defend the statue.

[grizzaholic]

A mountain Ibanez. A MOUNTAIN.

Hill, mountain. Whatever.

I will smite your child with Montana Grizzly loyalties.