12-18-2009, 10:38 PM
[url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580568,00.html?test=latestnews"]Christmas Display Showing Jesus Murdering Santa Under Fire in California[/url]
Quote:A California neighborhood reportedly is up in arms after a resident decorated his lawn with a depiction of Jesus shooting Santa Claus.
The controversial Christmas display shows Jesus pointing a double-barrel shotgun at Santa's dead body as Rudolph lays sprawled across the hood of a pickup truck nearby, WNCT reported.
Neighbors in Nipomo, Calif., called for the display to be removed, but its maker Ron Lake called [color="#FF0000"]it a work of art[/color] ââ¬â in which Santa represents the commercialization of Christmas, the station reported.
"It's an expression of my repressed creativity," <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> Lake told WNCT.
Police said that because Lake built the display on private property they cannot force him to take it down. Some residents plan to start a petition, the station reported.