Atheist Group Forces Grieving Mother To Remove Roadside Cross

[Chad32]

Personally, those roadside memorials disgust me. I see no valid reason for them being there.

There may actually be a practical use for having something along the road to indicate that people were in crashes there. Maybe not a religious symbol, but a sign or something.

Not that we don't already have signs warning of sharp turns and stuff.

[thesummerqueen]

Only when you're around babe...

Umm....okay?

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Not that we don't already have signs warning of sharp turns and stuff.

We have standardized road symbols for that. No need to appropriate it with your religious symbol. You could just be advertising, after all.

[Minimalist]

There may actually be a practical use for having something along the road to indicate that people were in crashes there.

Most crashes are not the road's fault. Some idiot is texting, talking, shaving or getting a blow job.

[Neo-Scholastic]

Eventually the person who puts it up moves on. Then the memorial starts to tatter, fall apart, and become an eyesore. Cross or no cross people shouldn't add to the litter in the streets.

[Jackalope]

I have no problem with such memorials, provided that they are erected by individuals not using public funds, aren't traffic hazards and are removed if they become an unmaintained eyesore.

If anything, they serve as practical reminders to pedestrians of dangerous sections of road. There's a dangerous blind curve on the back way to my country property - for some reason people insist on waking on the dangerous blind inside of the curve. Every so often, theres a new memorial representing another fatality.

[Chad32]

There may actually be a practical use for having something along the road to indicate that people were in crashes there.

Most crashes are not the road's fault. Some idiot is texting, talking, shaving or getting a blow job.

There's a road I used to live on that was appropriately named winding Road. Eventually they put some sharp turn signs on there to help prevent crashes, but there are no turns that are too sharp if you're going the speed limit. It was this one family of drunks tearing down the road way too fast that kept doing it. It's definitely not always the road's fault.

[Doubting Thomas]

I hate seeing all these little roadside memorials to people's momentary lapse of concentration or bad judgment which resulted in a traffic fatality. The thing that annoys me is had they survived, they'd be thanking God for a miracle.

You want to commemorate someone's existence, celebrate their life, not their death.

Jewish people must be really good drivers, because you never see any stars of David along side the roads.

[Tonus]

If it's a six-foot-tall cross on a road, just turn it into a street sign.

[Yahweh]

[Clueless Morgan]

If it's a six-foot-tall cross on a road, just turn it into a street sign.

Excellent suggestion. May I suggest: