Bucktown Louisiana resident, Vic Miorana, enjoys creating elaborate Halloween displays every year. He said he's been working on the display that's up now for a year.
“We have a little religious theme here," Miorana said, “We wanted to make people scared, to make them a little uncomfortable.”
Miorana said the display doesn't reflect the family's personal or religious beliefs. He said its 'just for fun.'
But some Bucktown neighbors were shocked when they saw the display, which depicts a beheaded Jesus flanked by a nun and priest. Jesus's head is in the hands of Satan.
Rachel Flanagan said her children first alerted her to the display.
“It’s appalling," she said. “Look, I’m all about Halloween. I decorate. We all have scary stuff. This just is crossing the line."
“In a word, it’s blasphemy," Peggy Keller said.
Keller and Flanagan aren't the only Metairie residents that want to see the decorations removed.
“I understand everybody has freedom of speech. That’s what we are all here for, that’s what makes this country great, but we have freedom of speech as well. I felt like we needed to express our opinion as well," Paula Hennessey said.
Code enforcement visited the property on Monday.
“We are not aware of any local ordinances that specifically address this type of situation; however, this neighborhood display is clearly offensive and certainly not in the spirit of a family-friendly Jefferson Parish Halloween," Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said in a statement to WWL-TV.
Miorana's next door neighbor, Frank Turan, said he didn't see anything wrong with the display. "Every year he goes way overboard on trying to make these displays. Everyone seems to like it, except a few people," Turan said.
Miorana said the display is nothing different than what you would see in a 'haunted house or average scary movie.'
“This is not real, and we have no interest in inciting violence. We have no bias against the church. We were both raised Catholic," Miorana said. “If this isn’t your particular cup of tea, maybe pick a different street to walk down on Halloween."
**This reminded me of Kathy Griffin's famous picture of a beheaded Trump.
She was completely cancelled and dropped from ALL of her sponsors - which left her without a job or a hope of a new job... because of such vulgarity. It ruined her life.
But true to the motive of evil, this blasphemous display will be allowed, SOLELY under the guise of it being "decorations" for Halloween.
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