Some consider a statue of a female pirate scantily dressed in Schuylkill county inappropriate.<\/p>\n
It has treasure and boots, tight fitting pants and some say not enough clothing on the top. The pirate statue sits in front of a antique store in Girardville and it’s ruffling some feathers, especially those of a Roman Catholic priest.<\/p>\n
“I believe that it’s indecent. I guess it would categorized as soft porn. If there is a definition of that I would call it soft porn,” said Father Edward Commolly.<\/p>\n
He believes the statue is a public assault.<\/p>\n
The statue has been moved back from the sidewalk, the owners said, because it’s windy but on the day of a recent protest the pirate was standing in full view.<\/p>\n
Father Commolly commanded the owners to remove it.<\/p>\n
“He pointed to the statue and very dictatorially and said, ‘I curse you. I curse this place. I want to see this destroyed. I want her destroyed,'” said pirate owner Peggy Kanigoski.<\/p>\n
“Nor did I curse in the sense of putting a curse on them. In fact I did quite the opposite. I blessed them,” Father Commolly said.<\/p>\n
Some people are surpised about the controversy.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s art. I don’t see nothing wrong with that,” said Randy Smith of Girardville.<\/p>\n
“I think there is worse on television, to tell you the truth. If they want to do anything they shouldn’t worry about a statue, they should start on television,” said Heidi Martin.<\/p>\n
The priest said he won’t let the matter drop. He might visit the statue and pray for it’s removal.<\/p>\n
The owners said it will remain, drawing potential customers to see their business on the busy main drag.<\/p>\n
Hard to know who said what here, though I am skeptical about Fr. Connoly (who also blogs<\/a>) said what he was accused of saying. Though I do think their might be better things for him to protest than this statue<\/a>. Though not being worse than what you see on TV is not much of a standard anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some consider a statue of a female pirate scantily dressed in Schuylkill county inappropriate. It has treasure and boots, tight fitting pants and some say not enough clothing on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}