Group claims religious display at Daley Plaza was vandalized An image of Jesus known as “The Divine Mercy” that is annually displayed in Chicago’s Daley Plaza around Easter is believed to have been vandalized for the first time in its 8-year history this week. Wednesday morning several holes were discovered punctured through the bottom of the 10-foot tall canvass around the image of Jesus’ feet, and the glass over four posters related to the image was shattered. “It looks like someone took a bat to the glass,” said Jocelyn Floyd, attorney for the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based socially conservative legal group that defends the rights of groups and individuals across the country to express their religious beliefs in public forums. Chicago Police News Affairs officer Thomas Sweeney said they have no report of police being called to the area for the incident. He also said there is no police report on file. Floyd said that she is waiting for the founder of “The Divine Mercy” project, who spearheads the annual display, to file the report. A sister display of a 19-foot-tall cross as well as a counter-display from the Freedom From Religion Foundation that reads “Keep State and Religion Separate” were left untouched, Floyd said, which makes her [...] ilinnews/group-claims-religious-display-at-daley-plaza-was-vandalized/
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:30:49 +0000
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