SPEAKOUT

A real shame

IT IS a shame to take down that cross when it's not hurting a thing. If people don't like God, they can move out of the United States. Wake up, people of the United States. Let's put God back into our hearts where he belongs like it used to be.

Let's keep God

We've got people here in the United States who want to get Christ and God completely out of everything. If we don't do something to stop this organization to get God out of everything, we are heading in a bad way. We need to do something to stop these people. Any time you see a cross it should remind you of Jesus Christ, your Savior. I hope that everyone gets together and fights this. We need to keep the cross in front of our eyes.

IT SEEMS to me the cross in question has as much to do with the history of Cape Girardeau and the settlement of the United States as it does with any religion. As for the Cape area member who wouldn't let his or her name published, if he or she has no backbone to even let us know who they are, why should the Missouri Department of Highways and Transportation pay any attention? Of course, if they take it to court they'll probably win. The liberals and minorities of this country have already managed to get way too much fine print added into our Constitution.

I'M CALLING about you group that wants the cross removed. I cannot believe that we have people in this country who are so afraid of God and his ability to rule the world that a single cross intimidates them so much they need it removed. That shows God's true power.

Leave the cross alone

LEAVE THE cross where it is. What has happened to our freedom of religion? Don't these people have anything better to do? I guess they want something done about our currency having "In God We Trust" on it also. Tell them to move to Russia.

I VERY seldom become incensed over an issue I read or hear about but the small group seeking to move a historic monument because it happens to honor early Christians to our area is so abhorrent to me that I must speak out.

AS IF we didn't have enough storm troopers from our big-brother government, we now have the self-appointed Gestapo of the Freedom From Religion Foundation poking their noses into our business and exposing their ignorance. Anyone but a fool knows that the Cape LaCroix cross is an historical monument. Annie Gayler, whose ignorance is only exceeded by her arrogance, apparently doesn't have anything useful to do and should be put to work picking up trash from the highway she's misusing. She and her organization should be treated as any other vermin: stepped on and sprayed with a toxic substance.

Just cut off the cross

I AGREE the cross on North Kingshighway violates the principles of church and state. Why don't they just cut off the cross, and that would leave it as a historical marker?

A disgusting story

I'M CALLING in response to the article about the group that wants the cross removed. I think this is very sad and very disgusting. I wish you wouldn't have even printed it in the paper. I don't know long this country thinks we can shake our fist in God's face, but he's going strike us one of these days.

I JUST read the article about the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation. What in the world has our society come to? These people have nothing better to do than whine about a 40-year-old harmless cross that sits in Cape Girardeau. We wonder why our country is overfull with crime, hatred and meanness. Nowadays, you can't even pull up to a local gas station without worrying about some gang member jumping in the floorboard of our back seat. And here these people are coming down here worrying about a cross on the side of North Kingshighway. Where will this mess ever end?

WHAT WAS here first, cross or the law? We throw out all symbols, not just morals, but history. The history of this country had religion in it, and now we have groups trying to bastardize it. To the member of this group in the Cape area, since you found the time to complain about a cross that is part of local history that I feel is harming no one, I now ask what are you doing about preventing crime in our area and what is your group's replacement solution to symbolize model character?

I'll take the cross

I WOULD like to say to the Wisconsin-based group that would like the cross moved to stay in Wisconsin and leave Missouri alone. Also I live on Cape LaCroix Road, and if they need a place to put that cross, I'd be glad to put in my property.

Becoming un-Godly

WE ARE most assuredly becoming an un-Godly people. First, someone wants to take the Christian stations taken off the air. Then I was shocked to read that a group from another state wants us to remove our cross. Where does it end? Christian people, when do we take a stand?

THIS IS for the group that doesn't believe in God or anything else. I think they should butt out of Cape, leave our cross alone and find something else to get up on their soap box about. I am so tired of every time I pick my paper up we've got these fanatics and that's all they do. Now if this bunch doesn't believe in God, then they don't believe in the Constitution that they're trying to use against us to do away with our cross, so I think it's time they butt out and shut up.

I'M CALLING about the Freedom From Religion Foundation. I think it's ridiculous that they remove the concrete cross that stands between Cape LaCroix and Kingshighway near Mt. Auburn Road. I think it's crazy for it to even be removed. It's not bothering nobody.

Stand up, Christians

I'M JUST reading in the paper about the group that wants the cross removed. It says the Freedom From Religion Foundation has 3,300 members. It's time all us Christians stood up. There are a lot more Christians than 3,300 in the United States nationwide to speak out against this. The state isn't forcing religion on anyone. We have a choice like the Constitution says. There is a separation of state and religion.

THIS IS to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. You atheists heathens are no threat to the nation if there's only 3,330 of you. So thank God for all the Christians.

Just sell the cross

CONCERNING the Wisconsin based group called Freedom from Religion Foundation that is concerned about the removal of a cross depicting the historical event of three French missionaries being here in the year 1699. Since it's on public property, and for some reason that's against some stupid law, a simple solution would be to sell the plot the cross is on to a private citizen, thus making it legal. Secondly, that group of atheists should go back to Wisconsin. Then they wouldn't have to look at the cross, a symbol of those who do believe there is a God.

Minority manipulation

I THINK this is ridiculous when a such a minority of atheists and agnostics can manipulate the majority of the country as they are gradually doing. I was reading an article in the Rutherford Magazine, which is a publication of the Rutherford Institute in Charlottesville, Va., which fights for religious freedom and the restoration of God and religion in public arena in our own country. In this article, they were quoting a lot our founding fathers about the Constitution and its problems with church and state. I just want to cite two of them. John Adams: "Our Constitution was designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other." And George Washington said in his 1796 farewell address to Congress: "Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Without the religions that we have traditionally had over 200-some-odd years, this country will go to hell in a wheelbarrow just like it has done for the last 30 years under social engineering.