[Vision2020] 10-17-04 AP: Ky. Hopeful Uses Jesus on Billboard Ad

[Robert Dickow]

The Lexington, KY City Council is liable to crucify this guy...
 
Bob Dickow, troublemaker

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Ky. Hopeful Uses Jesus on Billboard Ad


Associated Press


LEXINGTON, Ky. - A City Council candidate is protesting a billboard put up
by his incumbent opponent that proclaims "Elect Jesus Christ Savior" and
includes a box stating "Jacques Wigginton for Council."

Wigginton, a preacher, said the sign, which went up Thursday, was intended
not to promote his candidacy but to support the "Elect Jesus" campaign, a
local initiative he started to promote faith and community involvement. He
said he had the "Wigginton for Council" box printed as small as possible.

But Tom Blues, his opponent in the Lexington council race, said Wigginton
appears to be likening himself to Christ.

"He's certainly putting his name on the same level and in the same context
(as Jesus)," Blues said. "The implication is clear that if you elect Jesus,
then you'll elect Jacques. Not only is it sacrilegious ... it's a kind of
desperate, even hysterical sort of appeal."

The Rev. Cynthia Cain of the Unitarian Universalist Church said that
regardless of his intentions, Wigginton should not have mixed faith with
politics.

"As an elected official, he should definitely know that faith and politics
don't mix at that level," said Cain, former president of the Interfaith
Alliance of the Bluegrass.

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Question:  Will Paul Kimmell put Cult Master Douglas Wilson's image on his
next campaign billboards?

 


Wayne
 
Art Deco  (Wayne Fox)
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