FFRF now after Mexican Fiesta in Milwaukee to cease Catholic Mass

An atheist group is complaining that Mexican Fiesta's discounted admission for attending its Sunday Mass on the Summerfest grounds violates laws barring discrimination based on religious affiliation.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison-based organization, says it will file a bias allegation with the state if Mexican Fiesta declines to alter its policy.

But the festival's president says that no one is required to attend Sunday's 10:15 a.m. Mass to get the $5 discounted admission ($13 is the price at the gates, which open at noon).

"Our policy has always been that patrons may enter the grounds and, if they wish, wait until the gates are open to Mexican Fiesta," Antonio Guajardo wrote to Patrick Elliott, an attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

"As victims of ongoing discrimination throughout the United States, Mexican Americans are acutely sensitive to issues of this nature and would not consider discriminating against others for any reason," Guajardo wrote in a letter released by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Elliott said the Mexican Fiesta response did not satisfy the group, because people who want the discount but don't want to go to a Catholic Mass have to wait around for an hour and a half for the gates to open.

The group's threat of a legal challenge drew this response from the official who will lead the Mass at the Marcus Amphitheater on the festival grounds.

"We lovingly invite the atheists to attend the Mass and experience the profound love of God," said Milwaukee Archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop Donald J. Hying. "If we all lived in the radiant love of Christ, these fights would cease."

It makes me think of Tolkien when you realize that this group cannot build up anything of their own, only tear down the beauty that has been created.  

I thought JS did a good job with this.  The statement at the end of this article is perfect.

The foundation says it has 1,400 members in Wisconsin and 19,000 nationally.

So the millions of Mexicans and Irish in Wisconsin apparently need to take their dirty peasant cultural faith and purify it with the help of our Committee of Public Safety.