Sometimes, the punchlines write themselves

The ACLU has raised the seemingly obvious constitutional question about the "where Jesus is Lord" welcome signs a local village has owned and maintained for more than a decade. (click the pic for the whole story).

"Former Mayor Callie Mobley, who took office in the early 1980s, said she immediately pushed for the signs. The City Council approved them, and the city paid maybe $250, $350 tops for each, Mobley said. The reason for the signs was simple. "I believe in one God, one Baptism, and one Lord," she said. And never once did she hear any objections to the signs. "And they had all the opportunity in the world to complain, but all I got was compliments, Mobley said. "And I mean I got compliments. Compliments, compliments, compliments." In March 2000, Mobley pleaded guilty of income tax evasion during her federal corruption trial, where she and her husband stood accused of stealing $140,000 from the town."