The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus\u2019 name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com.<\/p>\n
The gold \u201cIHS\u201d monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day, CNSNews.com reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But remember how the press and sophisticated folk laughed when Attorney General John Ashcroft had a statue of a naked woman covered so that it wouldn\u2019t be in the background of one of his speeches?<\/p>\n
This reminds me of a line from Flannery O\u2019Connor, in her unforgettable short story \u201cThe Displaced Person\u201d: \u201cChrist in the conversation embarrassed her the way sex had her mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wasn\u2019t going to make a big deal out of this: The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus\u2019 name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com. The gold \u201cIHS\u201d monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-government","category-literature"],"yoast_head":"\n
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