Jailed for burning cross on his own property

[Salty]

A man was jailed for intimidating his neighbors.

Should it be illegal - if done on your own property?


Mississippi man sentenced to prison for cross burning

 

[JonC]

Yes. The reason is it does is intimidating another.

I found out, for example, that you cannot sunbathe in the nude in your own front yard.....at least not in my neighborhood. It is more than frowned upon. They call the cops.

 

[Deacon]

I found out, for example, that you cannot sunbathe in the nude in your own front yard.....at least not in my neighborhood.

Hummmm…
So when exactly did you sun bath nude in your front yard?

Rob

 

[Scarlett O.]

You'd better believe it should be illegal.

I haven't seen a cross burning since 1965. I was four years old. My family was traveling through Mississippi to get home to Louisiana. There were white-robed white men in a pasture on one side of the road and an angry group of black men on the other side of the road.

It's imbedded in my 61-year-old brain like glue.

My parents were terrified and they transferred that to me. I didn't understand the terror.

I do now.

Frankly, I don't care where the KKK burns the cross. They are not Christians. They are not "lighting" the cross to draw attention to Jesus.

They are terrorists trying to frighten and threaten people.

I think they should get more time than that.

 

[JonC]

Hummmm…
So when exactly did you sun bath nude in your front yard?

Rob

Around noon. Sun is the best at that time.

 

[Bible Thumpin n Gun Totin]

In this case it looks like the man burned it on someone else's property, in which case he needs to be arrested for destruction of private property.

"A Mississippi man was sentenced to 42 months in prison for intimidating his Black neighbors by burning a cross in their front yard"

It should not be illegal to burn a cross on your own property anymore than it should be illegal to burn brush, or shoot firearms, or read a book, or preach.

While we're at it, all hate speech laws should be done away with unless we're going in a Theonomy direction. Otherwise all other hate speech are trash.

 

[Salty]

In this case it looks like the man burned it on someone else's property, in which case he needs to be arrested for destruction of private property. ...

When I first read the article -I thought the man had put the cross in his own yard - but when I read it again - it was in the neighbors yard. Thus I do agree with Bible...gun

 

[Centrist]

The Christian fellowship/pseudo-church I was with up in Rawlins Wyoming did stuff like that. But it was not racial by any means. We read verses, we'd write our sins down on paper, light the cross, then sing a few songs of repentance and forgiveness, and finally throw the wadded up sins into the fire and sing more songs. There was never anything racist there. The racist view of lighting the cross was from the movie "The Birth of a Nation" (1915). They also distorted the original history of the Ku Klux Klan. The original lighting of the cross is to rid us of the demons by casting them and or sins into into the light of our Lord and Savior. It had been a long time, so may I get something wrong here. But no, a true lighting of the cross is not racist.