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"I had to share this with the public. Notice what I will be putting on all Childress Police patrol units." -Chief Adrian Garcia

Atheists, ‘Go fly a kite,’ says Texas police chief

September 30, 2015

By Kelly Ledbetter, Christian Examiner

CHILDRESS, Texas (Christian Examiner) – Childress Police Chief Adrian Garcia has a way with words: efficient and direct.

So yesterday when he wrote a response to the Freedom from Religion Foundation letter he received about police vehicles bearing the words, “In God We Trust,” Garcia needed to use only four words — “Go fly a kite.”

“After carefully reading your letter I must deny your request in the removal of our Nations motto from our patrol units, and ask that you and the Freedom From Religion Foundation ‘go fly a kite.'” This was his entire one-sentence response.

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FIRST PERSON: The Fox in the Henhouse — Big Tech’s role in ‘regulating’ AI endangers children

By Gene Mills, special to the Baptist Message BATON ROUGE, La. (LBM) -- Big Tech is not your friend and does not share your family values. Now that I’ve said the impolite part out loud, let’s circle back to why that matters and what must be done about it. There are two significant and converging stories … Read More

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