The city of Tega Cay in South Carolina literally had the word ‘Lord’ scrubbed from a memorial meant to honor fallen police officers.
The memorial, donated by a women’s civic group and meant to honor law enforcement members who gave their lives in service to the city, contained a prayer that mentions the ‘Lord’ three separate times.
The prayer reads (or read):
“Lord, I ask for courage. Courage to face and conquer my own fears, courage to take me where others will not go … Give me Lord, concern for others who trust me and compassion for those who need me. And please Lord, through it all, be at my side.”
Complaints allegedly started rolling in immediately. The city’s attorney argued that because the stone has no historical significance, they should remove the offending references and appease the handful of people who made phone calls.
Now, Tega Cay City Manager Charlie Funderburk argues, “There [are] just as many people upset now that it got removed over people upset it was there in the first place.”
“There is no win here at all,” he added.
Are you with the “Lord,” or against it? The word’s been removed from a fallen #memorial outside the Tega Cay #Police Department in #SC. Complaints about “#Lord,” on it caused city leaders to take it off. But now that it’s gone, complaints about the word’s removal are starting. pic.twitter.com/P9wz7iHI6E
— Amber Roberts (@AmberFOX46) July 23, 2019
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Liberals Aren’t Fans of God
Are you surprised at all that city’s across the nation have to fight this anti-religion nonsense constantly?
Liberals oppose the recognition of God in public spaces ad nauseam. As sure as the word ‘Lord’ has been removed from this memorial, it will crop up again in cities across the nation come Christmas time when songs are banned from schools, nativity scenes are banned from city squares, and a Charlie Brown Christmas is opposed for having a biblical reference.
The left fights to have the commandments removed from schools. They fight to have ‘In God we trust’ removed from our currency.
Hell, the American left even once voted three separate times to remove God from the Democrat party platform.
Most recently, Democrats have succeeded in removing the phrase “so help me God” from the oath administered to witnesses testifying before congressional committees.
Crazy Solution
As if scrubbing out each individual instance of the word ‘Lord’ from the prayer wasn’t ridiculous enough, city officials responded to an outcry over their actions by … removing the memorial altogether until they figure out a better solution.
“Tega Cay officials say that the monument will stay down while they try to find a ‘solution,'” the Epoch Times reported.
The city council acknowledged they dropped the ball on handling this matter.
“We attempted to find a compromise but failed as our community has further divided,” they said in a statement. “In an attempt to find a resolution, we have upset parties on both sides of this issue and for that we are truly sorry.”
After a week of further complaints, the city responded by making yet another epic mistake – they restored the memorial, complete with references to the Lord.
However, in another effort to compromise with those offended, they removed a Bible verse that was on the front of the stone monument. Matthew 5:9 appeared on the bottom corner, a reference to Jesus’ words in the New Testament: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
“By restoring the Police Officer’s Prayer on the back and not restoring the reference to the Bible Verse on the front of the monument, we can begin to understand what it means to compromise even when we completely disagree,” the city wrote on Facebook.
Let’s hope reason wins the day at some point in Tega Cay and they simply accept the memorial as is.
