MONTREAL — A Montreal priest faces a $150 fine after city officials ruled an electronic billboard flashing biblical messages outside his church was a form of advertising.
The Rev. Charles-Eugene Apesteguy said the purpose of the sign is to "bring good news." He said the sign’s messages are not advertising.
Apesteguy’s Roman Catholic parish paid $5,000 for the second-hand electronic billboard. It was installed over the front door in hopes of grabbing the attention of passers-by.
Apesteguy said many people have thanked the church for the messages of hope.
Go out into the whole world and spread the good news, oops is that considered advertising? I wonder if you follow the quote attributed to St. Francis "and if necessary use words" could land you with a fine for spreading the Gospel by your actions? Though many of us might have to worry about false advertising charges when we don’t fully live the Gospel.
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What about all those churches that have signage with the removable lettering? They always have biblical quotes on those things, too.
This is silly, and I hope the city official gets a lot of phone calls expressing disapproval.
Silly, silly, silly.
Rich
Oh, Canada.
At least we haven’t reached that point down here in the Bible Belt yet. Wouldn’t surprise me if they have on the left coast.
Outrageous. This is nothing but atheist agression, again.
The weird thing is that this is the first I’ve heard about it. It doesn’t seem to be big news around where it happened. Maybe it’s being hushed up?
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