DC mayor sued over 'Black Lives Matter' street painting

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WASHINGTON - A lawsuit is challenging Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser’s move to paint “Black Lives Matter” in giant yellow letters down the city’s 16th Street near the White House, alleging she is violating the First Amendment’s establishment clause by showing a preference to what it calls a “cult orthodoxy.”
The suit, filed in federal court Wednesday by street pastor Rich Penkoski, also complains in incendiary language that Bowser’s decision to change a street name to “Black Lives Matter Plaza” was done “to pay respect to the Black Lives Matter liturgy at the taxpayers expense.”

The lawsuit was first reported by The Washington Times.


Penkoski is identified as the head of the D.C. Chapter of the Warriors for Christ.

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Amen! Though I am against BLM but.. in any city.. I think a VOTE of what ALL the people in that city would like .. might be a better way to do it.

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The democrats are just caving left and right to mob intimidation. Put it to a vote, like you say. We still live in a democracy.
 
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So long as he's making what sound like religious arguments, he's going to lose. To paraphrase the great G.K. Chesterton, the modern world is not marked by its skepticism, but by the way it is dogmatic without realizing it. Those who are ushering in a new metaphysics/new religion will not admit that this is what they are doing -- either because they don't realize it themselves, or do not want to be so blunt as to admit it, or for some other reason -- and the average secular person who is neither versed in the hallmarks of religious thinking nor liable to think very critically about today's social movements is not going to recognize it, either. So this is going to lose, and probably pretty hard, too.

It doesn't mean that this is not in fact what they are doing, only that most may not see it. But I have very secular/anti-religion friends who seem to have bought off so completely on everything that comes with a #blm hashtag that if we were in a different time or place, they'd have already asked me to attend their baptism.
 
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I don't think it's fair that one group of people are deciding what statues can stand and what can be painted on a street. It's just another attempt to push communism onto this country.
 
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