The plaintiff was Barry Baker, the interim director for the Center for Phallic Worship. A rally was held five days later at a local church in Peebles, Ohio, where Barry Baker also lived, with 600 in attendance and standing room only. These signs have been posted in yards in 46 U.S. states and seven countries, including Japan and Switzerland. The ACTC story has become one of the many symbolic battles in the cultural war between the Religious Right and secular humanism. Such stories seep into the corporate consciousness of Christendom through such voices as James Dobson's Focus on the Family, and they cannot fail to evoke a sense of the increasingly rapid opposition to Judeo-Christian mores that has impacted this culture.
Caution is in order here.
One must not indulge in the temptation to assign guilt by association. We can't assume that the hard-line Dominionism of Gary North is shared by all conservative Christian leaders. There must be a line between radical Reconstructionist thinking that would insist on capital punishment for homosexuals and the more palatable conservative Christian thinking that would prefer the Ten Commandments to a phallus in the school yard. Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James version. Used by permission.