In December 2001, Tuscola County commissioners at a Board meeting "shouted down" Anonka, an atheist who was complaining about a Nativity scene erected on the courthouse lawn. That was, to be quite frank. stupid and bigoted - and now a court has ordered the Board to apologize for their juvenile actions.

Bryce Hoffman writes for The Saginaw News:

[Anonka] was told to stop speaking before her time was up, and her comments never appeared in the official record of the meeting, said Jean M. Hansen, the Bloomfield Hills-based attorney who represents Anonka and her daughter, Tammra Jocham. [The court-ordered apology] reads: "We express regret that our statements made at the Dec. 11, 2001, meeting of the Tuscola County Board of Commissioners offended Anonka or caused her embarrassment or hardship. We understand that our citizens should be welcome to express their views on matters of public concern."

"It's over and I'm hoping I can get on with my life," Anonka said. "They took away almost three years of my life and put me in a lot of fear." Anonka has routinely clashed with Caro citizens and government officials. A mob toting Bibles once backed her into an alley, spit on her and threatened her, she said. "They told me that I'm going to die," she said. "It will be a bullet in the brain or a stab in the back. I won't know where, and I won't know when."

Even from this distance, I can just feel the Christian love oozing out of Tuscola County, Michigan. People want America to be a "Christian Nation" and they want to pass laws that allow the government to acknowledge the nation's "Christian Heritage." Well, take a look at what these same Christians do to express their heritage and religion all on their own.

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