City to atheist group: We don’t own the land with the cross. We used to, but we sold it to a church

Freedom from Religion Foundation – based in the People’s Not-so-Republic of Wisconsin – found somebody who was offended by a cross and decided to take action to protect the person’s religious freedom. Or something.

FFRF “received a complaint from an unidentified citizen of the community of 13,000 near the East Texas city of Beaumont.” The community is Port Neches.

“’The government’s permanent display of a Latin cross on public land is unconstitutional,’ the group wrote in a letter to Port Neches Mayor Glenn Johnson.”

Take down the cross, FFRF demanded.

Not so fast, said the mayor. Said the city attorney: “We found a section in the local government code that allows the sale of property to a religious organization, as long as that organization owns land within the municipality and there’s an agreement to revitalize that land.”

The First United Methodist Church of Port Neches bought the 400-square-foot plot and the cross.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/23/texas-city-hatches-real-estate-deal-with-church-to-cross-out-atheists-lawsuit.html?intcmp=hpbt3