Daily Inter Lake - Comments Pour in on Jesus Statue

By Jim Mann, DailyInterLake.com

One way or another, more than 90,000 people have chimed in on the Big Mountain Jesus statue issue so far, according to the Flathead National Forest.

Thursday is the deadline for public comment on a pending Forest Service decision to renew a lease for a 25-by-25-foot parcel of federal land where the statue has been located since 1955. . . .

About 70,000 comments came from online supporters for a letter that was submitted to the Forest Service by the American Center for Law and Justice, advocating a lease renewal. . . .

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