There's an Episcopal church across the road from where I used to live. I had mixed feeling about living in such close proximity to a church. It was a very nice sandstone building which had a warm glow in dusk. The Anglican church is also the major protestant denomination in Australia. Although I've never been particularly interested in it, living next to one seemed to help with my periodic homesickness. On the other hand, I did not like being woken up by the church's choir and organ on Sunday mornings. And it was often very difficult to find street parking during summer and autumn on the weekends because of all the weddings held at the church. I mention all this because last weekend I walked by this church and noticed that its "pray for peace" signs had been defaced. These were were very tasteful lawn signs with a purple background, a white dove and the words, "pray for peace" along with the name of the church. Somebody had taken a black marker to these signs and blackened out the white dove. To me, this seemed like an attack on the values of this church and afront to my entire neighbourhood. It reminded me of this Carol Lay cartoon.
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