(Source: Jack Douglas, Jr., Star-Telegram)
Tarrant County, TX - A woman has told county commissioners that the statue of a sleeping panther in front of the Tarrant County Administration building is violating the "Separation of Church and State." The reason being, that the statue is 'pagan' and her words quoted by Douglas,
"is an insult to Christians everywhere, and I respectfully request its removal from any local, state, county [or] federal property,"I suppose she is trying to make a point over the 10 Commandments statue in Alabamma. But in my opinion she is doing more harm than good, because it is a stretch to call this panther statue pagan. Douglas points out that the history of the sleeping panther in Fort Worth goes back to a statement in the 1880's made by a lawyer who said of the town,
"things were so quiet, he had seen a panther asleep on Main Street."I suppose we can look forward to a lot of this kind of stuff over the coming months. Some good, some bad.
