The Ten Commandments President?

[Brown]

The city of Duluth has sold its monument to Lowell Lundstrom's church, according to WCCO news and the AP. As part of a settlement, the city agreed to remove the monument from public land.

Lundstrom used to be (and perhaps still is) affiliated with Billy Graham's organization, which until recently was based in Minneapolis. A picture of a smiling Lundstrom and his wife greet travelers who approach the Twin Cities from the south on Interstate 35.

Lundstrom's organization said it bought the monument because of a concern that someone might spend several thousands of dollars to buy the monument, and then wreck it for some reason:

Celebration Church and its pastor, television and radio evangelist Lowell Lundstrom, wanted to make sure the monument stayed in Minnesota and away from a buyer who would destroy it, church business administrator Allan Miller said.

According to the article, there were other bidders, but they wanted to preserve the monument.

 

[corplinx]

He should run for God.

You nearly made me snarfle my soda.

 

[a_unique_person]

You nearly made me snarfle my soda.

Hi five for Corplinx. Who says we aren't all friends here.

 

[Tony]

I hope he runs and I hope he gets popular. Marginalizing the christian fanatics would be one of the best things for this country.

 

[Suddenly]

I hope he runs and I hope he gets popular. Marginalizing the christian fanatics would be one of the best things for this country.

I said this at the other place in a different context, but imagine how nice things would be if you switched the position of the Libertarians and the Fundies.

Make the libertarians a semi-organized voting block in the Republican party with great influence over party policy and make the Fundys a third party that spends most of its time whining about ballot access.

Think about it...

 

[glsunder]

Make the libertarians a semi-organized voting block in the Republican party with great influence over party policy and make the Fundys a third party that spends most of its time whining about ballot access.

That'd make the republican party a lot less crazy and it'd be a very good thing for the country.

Some republicans do speak the truth once in a while:
Bereuter shocks GOP with comments on religion, abortion

A lot of people aren't republicans because of abortion or religion. Personally, I say compromise and end the debate -- allow any abortion for 12 weeks, allow for rape/incest for another 12, then allow it only for health reasons after that. Maybe both sides would stop wasting time on it then.

 

[UserGoogol]

Roy ain't running. The *cough* Constitution Party decided to nominate Michael Peroutka instead.

 

[AtheistArchon]

- Too bad. We could have used the shot in the arm.

 

[shemp]

Moore really wouldn't have had much impact. He could probably have drawn a few hundred thousand wacko votes, but they would mostly have been in states that Bush will win anyway.