Pierson Neighbor Says Halloween Display 'Blasphemous'

A life-size Halloween decoration in a Pierson home depicting scarecrows in various poses has one neighbor angry, saying one of the straw men was made to look like Jesus Christ on the cross.

"It already was bordering on the obscene but . . . when I passed this property, I saw that these people had erected a cross and hung one of these straw men on it in mockery of Christ," said Robert Pagan, 47. "The entire front of this building is full of obscene, perverted and now blasphemous displays."

But the mother of the teenager who helped set up the project, which sits in the front lawn of her home on Emporia Road near the Emporia Baptist Church, said it wasn't done to resemble a crucifixion. Full Story

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