Vandals egg house of local atheist

Published: 9/23/2007 3:00 AM

Source: Daily Herald

The home of a local outspoken atheist was vandalized overnight Friday, police said -- with eggs tossed at the house and cars, and crosses and religious words scrawled in chalk on the driveway.

A church bulletin also was stuck on the front door.

The incident comes days after Rob Sherman's daughter, Dawn, led a successful effort to have the song "God Bless America" yanked from Buffalo Grove High School's homecoming celebration. Dawn Sherman is a freshman on the student council.

The vandalism likely was the retaliatory work of youngsters, police Sgt. Mike Millett said -- since it came on the heels of the school incident and because one of the chalked words, "Jesus," was misspelled.

I am not that surprised about the misspelling of the word "Jesus", it is very common in Christian blogs, comments and forum entries to have a lot of spelling and grammar errors. It most assuredly does not point to a child doing it.

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