{"id":567212,"date":"2016-12-13T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T21:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567212"},"modified":"2016-12-14T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:43:04","slug":"national-organization-taking-credit-for-longview-cross-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567212","title":{"rendered":"National Organization Taking Credit for Longview Cross Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Longview-Fire-Department-Cross.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/12\/Longview-Fire-Department-Cross-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-567213\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Freedom From Religion Foundation claims it is responsible for a cross being removed from a Longview fire station. According to the organization&#8217;s web site, a resident alerted them to the cross. They contacted the city last year about it. The group&#8217;s staff attorney, Sam Grover wrote to Longview Fire Chief J.P. Steelman, &#8220;It is inappropriate and unconstitutional for a government to display a Latin cross on its property because it conveys a preference of the city of Longview for religion over nonreligion and Christianity over all minority faiths.&#8221;  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When the cross went up again this year, city officials asked firefighters to remove it. Longview Spokesman Shawn Hara said, &#8220;displays that are religious of nature that are placed on public property face challenges, so our  practice is that we don&#8217;t do that.&#8221; But today, there is still a cross in front of the fire station. A family across the street from the fire station put one up. They said they did it  to show that they appreciate what the fire department does for the community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; The Freedom From Religion Foundation claims it is responsible for a cross being removed from a Longview fire station. According to the organization&#8217;s web site, a resident alerted them to the cross. They contacted the city last year about it. The group&#8217;s staff attorney, Sam Grover wrote to Longview Fire Chief J.P. Steelman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=567212\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Organization Taking Credit for Longview Cross Removal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":567213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:23:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567218,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567212\/revisions\/567218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/567213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}