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Indiana: hotbed of religious freedom battles
The Indianapolis Baptist Temple standoff (or, perhaps more accurately, standaround) isn't the only big religious liberty battle in The Hoosier State. Having barred a monment displaying the Ten Commandments from the Statehouse lawn, U.S. District Sarah Evans Barker was angry to find out that it had simply been moved to another county downstate. Barker said the county's action seemed to ask, "Now what are you going to do, judge?" What she's going to do is what she did on the state level. "You can reasonably expect that you'll be ordered to remove the monument," she told the county's commissioners. Meanwhile, Liz Anderson heads to court today in her highly publicized battle to wish people "Have a Blessed Day" at her office at USF Logistics. And not that it's a religious freedom issue, but Jay Scott Ballinger, a self-proclaimed "missionary of Lucifer" from Yorktown, Indiana, was sentenced to more than 42 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay $3.6 million in restitution for burning 26 churches (see more from ABCNews and the AP).

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November (Web-only) 2000, Vol. 44