Former Mayor who helped keep Ten Commandments monument on state property busted for shoplifting

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/9/1447669/-Former-Mayor-who-helped-keep-Ten-Commandments-monument-on-state-property-busted-for-shoplifting

You may remember back in 2001, when the ACLU sued to challenge a Ten Commandments monument erected at the Grand Junction City Hall, in Colorado. As with most insane religious stuff, it was clear to anyone with half a brain that the Ten Commandments monument was not going to be able to remain in the same fashion, unless a rag-tag group of religious zealots figured out a way to get around it. Enter the Grand Junction City Council and City Councilman/twice Mayor Reford Theobold:

City Councilman Reford Theobold said Grand Junction would immediately order granite to build five new monuments depicting important legal documents from British and U.S. history such as the Magna Carta.

City officials conceived the idea for the new $50,000 “Cornerstones of Law and Order” plaza after the ACLU threatened to sue the city over the Ten Commandments monument. There will also be a disclaimer that the city does not endorse any particular religion.

Listen, the man is religious and believes that the Ten Commandments are the word of God as He told Moses atop Mount Sinai. Maybe he thinks it was burned into the granite via fireball like in the Cecil B. DeMille/Charlton Heston film The Ten Commandments. Maybe Reford Theobold is a big bag of stinking hypocrisy?

[hobbit709]

1. So "Thou shalt not steal" didn't apply to him?

Willing to bet he's going to break the ones about bearing false witness and taking the lord's name in vain too.

[TexasProgresive]

3. Several don't apply to those of his ilk.

Prohibitions against stealing, lying, adultery and coveting are not for the high minded, SAVED, self-righteous RWCNJs. They are above the law, doncha know?

[Historic NY]

4. Especially when its your employer.

[GreatGazoo]

5. Because it says "thou" you see. Not him, THOU.

Maybe he wanted the 10 Commandments nearby because he keeps forgetting them.

[d_r]

12. authoritarians only follow rules

when they think someone is looking and they can get caught. its the whole externalized vs internalized sense of morality.

[Mendocino]

2. "I prayed for a

bike, didn't get it, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness". This rube will just use his christian get out of jail free card and all will be well in Grand Junction.

[Orrex]

6. Probably lead to his landslide reelection.

[lonestarnot]

7. so what did he rip off, panty liners?

[marble falls]

8. Jock itch cream. The small tube.

[lonestarnot]

9. Crab killer.

[druidity33]

11. candy bars and maps...

at a Cabela's...



what an idiot.

[lonestarnot]

13. What's he a Yogi Bear competitor?

[kairos12]

10. Revised: Thou Shall Not Get Caught Stealing

[justhanginon]

14. Evidently it is easier to try to keep monuments than to keep actual commandments. n/t