My church: meeting with the Quincy Historical District Commission
The Massachusetts-based Patriot Ledger reports ...QUINCY - A plan to drape a large banner supporting same-sex marriage from the facade of the city’s historic Church of the Presidents has lost a crucial regulatory battle at city hall.And from yours truly ...The Quincy Historical District Commission, which raised objections about the banner’s size and proposed location streamed across perhaps the city’s most important landmark, shot down a request by the United First Parish Church to hang a 34-foot-by-4-foot sign reading ‘‘People of Faith for Marriage Equality’’ in front of the church. ...
Paul Wilczynski, one of nine parishioners at the meeting, said, ‘‘I’d hate to leave this room tonight feeling that our ability to send a faith-based message will be impeded by the fact that we’re in a historic building.’’
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 12:03 PM
2 Comments:
Paul, can you explain the church's decision to try to hang a banner that is so big it needs special permission? Does this mean you won't hang any banner at all?
The church wanted to make the sign big enough for everyone to see because of how important we consider the issue of marriage equality to be.
No matter what size the sign, we would have had to go before 2 municipal groups - the Historical Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals. We were scheduled to go before the ZBA Monday Tuesday evening, March 7.
As it turns out, negotiations resulted in getting permission to hang the sign as we originally designed it before the ZBA meeting. I expect to see a news article about it.
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