Sought to portray first responders’ commitment to ‘run toward danger rather than from it’
By Bob Unruh
Officials in Quincy, Massachusetts, built bronze statues of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian to place outside a new public safety building for police and firefighters as they capture something ordinary civic plaques cannot, “courage that runs toward danger rather than from it, patrons those professions have invoked for centuries.”
But they cannot be used because, according to a decision from the state Supreme Judicial Court, they are Christian.
A report at the Federalist warns that if the ideology is left standing, it will cause much damage across America.
The court didn’t dispute that the images represent courage beyond the average.
But it claimed they could convey “implicit government support” for Catholicism, meaning there would be a “subordination of other religions.”
The report found that the result is a “powerful new tool” for the ACLU to scrub religious references from public life.