The mayor of Whiteville, Tenn., has finally given in to the demand of the Freedom from Religion Foundation to have the Latin cross on top of the town's water tower removed. In a final salvo, he demanded in a letter to FFRF that the organization compensate the town for the $4,000 it cost to hire a crane to break off one of the arms of the cross, thus leaving a gallows-like monstrosity.
In his letter, the mayor, James Bellar, complains of the "fear and terror caused" by "the terrorist supporters of F.F.R.F." He concludes the letter with "one word, and it is not a Town [sic] in Arizona": Phoenix. I think he means that the cross will rise up again. Unfortunately, with the current Catholic majority in the Supreme Court, this is not an impossibility.
