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For the last five years or perhaps longer, every summer the Bible is read on our county courthouse lawn. It takes a whole weekend. It gives me the creeps. Every year I want to protest it. But I never do. I got myself all fired up yesterday thinking I would either write a letter to the local paper or present myself at a county supervisors’ meeting to share my opinion.

My opinion??

I don’t think it should be done on public land. Our county has dozens of churches, and a whole shitload of real estate. If people want to gather to read the Bible they can do it on their own land. I was going to suggest that churches going together to do it might add to the ecumenical spirit of local religion. I was also going to say reading the Bible on church owned property would also prevent any possible thought that the Government was supporting the religion. Bad idea, you know? If you don’t know it, then that’s too bad.

I decided today that I won’t to it. I’ll just stew privately - well except for what I wrote here. I’m too sensitive to want to draw that much attention to myself.

Damn it, though. I’m right and they’re wrong.

I thought I might try to write a poem about it. Perhaps have God watching from his tall steeples and perhaps blushing.

Wouldn’t happen in Canada.