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Heaven only knows what , fled.lout, partly because "angels go far ~eyond a religious connota-
Wt~en it voted 1 Uouncilor Bob.Elhott put it.
on the City Park grotmds.' The ~ connotation? Not only is an angel a striking
' ~peaks ton certain:audience. The ~emblematic
should have caused greater alarm. City Park is
by every0ne'and should not be.used as a site to endorse any
¢ikind of religious advent. Perhaps the city did not pay for the statu.ee
'~ but who's going to pay for its m~ten~ce once it's.erected on public
land. Last time I checl/ed, ~t was. m the interest of the C~ty Council to
theauthor commissioned the'first Angel in serve all its residents~ But by sanction~ g this statue,.the council iS
sending a biased message to' its constit~{ents.
City, Utah,.and since then. SHAJ[~
rallying POint for abortion activists t~om~ither side of the issue -- corn
~...:j5 cerns that were acknowlgdged by the councilors. But thq conncil ci~?~:.
basically how the statue isor'
belief,' as the
world's sins and
Jesus, God, Crucifixion,
religious representation unfit for a Editorial writer Shajia Ahmad is a
felt, that the residents working behindthe proj Ul journalism and international-studies major.
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