Congressman Denny Rehberg Proposes Jesus Statue Land Swap

[The Straight Story]

Rehberg Proposes Jesus Statue Land Swap
FLATHEAD COUNTY

WHITEFISH, Mont. -- Congressman Denny Rehberg has proposed a land swap to keep a controversial statue from being moved off Big Mountain in Whitefish.

The statue of Jesus has sat on a piece of Forest Service land for more than 50 years. Now forest officials are considering pulling the statue after a group called the Freedom From Religion Foundation complained that it violates the separation of church and state.

Under the plan, Whitefish Mountain Resort would trade a similar plot of land to the forest in exchange for the land the statue sits on.

FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor says Rehberg’s proposal is political grandstanding, but Bill Glidden, Grand Knight of the Kalispell Knights of Columbus says the proposal makes sense.



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