Pubdate: Wed, 23 Apr 2014
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
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Author: Jimmie George
Page: 16A

420 CROSS PHOTO OFFENSIVE

Re: "Joint celebrations on 4/20 - Pot holiday was once underground;
now it sees the lighters of day," Monday news story.

As I read my morning DMN, I ran across a story called "joint
celebrations." The story itself was disgusting in the fact that there
are that many potheads in America. More disgusting was the photo that
accompanied the story. The picture of the pothead known by the street
name "NJ Weedman" carrying a cross adorned with marijuana leaves is an
insult to Christians everywhere.

Easter Sunday is a day set aside to celebrate the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, not a date to celebrate getting high legally.

If you want to get high, go ahead. It's your choice. If you don't
believe the story of Jesus, that is also your right. But please don't
insult believers by making jokes about Christ on what Christians
believe to be a sacred day.

I have never pushed my beliefs on nonbelievers. I just pray for them.
And I know plenty of nonbelievers.

I guess my biggest question is this: Why do these people, like the
pothead in New Jersey and the ones getting high in Denver, deserve any
kind of public recognition?

Jimmie George, Farmersville
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