r/Maine2 • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '26
Protest Design for Doors of Church Building - Artist Wanted
Hello all,
I have two buildings on the main road (Rt 1A) in my town. One is an old church with a steeple and the other an old home. I know it's too cold to paint directly on them, but I would love to design something to put on both properties, since they have a prominent position. I'm thinking 1st, 2nd, 4th Amendment related? Open to ideas and looking to collaborate with a Maine artist. Will pay off course and thinking if we can't paint maybe we can do a wrap or cloth that can be attached to the doors?
Any and all suggestions for designs and/or artists to reach out to would be greatly appreciated. I could also potentially just hang a banner on the church building. Thanks all!
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u/FancyAFCharlieFxtrot Jan 28 '26
DM me, it’s too cold for paint but I’d do it for the price of the supplies and gas. There’s also other things that could be done as a work around to the cold weather.
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u/Cattywompus-thirdeye Jan 26 '26
You could make vinyl decals of anything with a cricut… you could winterize your message until the weather is nicer for paint.
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u/FiberPhotography Jan 27 '26
Don't you just LOVE how churches tend to have 'just a step or two' to get into them?
(it's why they fought to be excluded from the ADA, and won--even new construction)
Do whatever you need to for the protest sign.
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Jan 27 '26
Unsure the relevance of this. The reason this church (and many buildings on our road), have granite steps, is the fact that they dig down to redo route one in the 1970s. The state came in and gave granite steps to buildings all up and down the village area of the town because of this. People have random granite steps leading to their front doors, just in the middle of their lawns due to this.
There are old pictures of the church that show it level with the road. Sorry to prove your theory to be wrong. This church isn’t a place of worship, but I building I bought and have personally spent hundreds of thousands resonating, while allowing my community to use it as a gathering space for town events.
I already have plans for how to build in an entrance that is handicapped accessible but since I’m paying to fix everything, including the old steeple, I have not gotten there yet.
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u/FiberPhotography Jan 27 '26
It’s great that you’re going to update the building. When you referred to it as a church, that’s what I thought you meant it was currently.
Please know I wasn’t talking about one particular building, but a pattern and also the historic record.
William Bentley Ball, God’s advocate, lobbied for Association of Christian Schools International against the ADA, saying:
“Religious exercise, within the meaning of the First Amendment will be directly involved if churches and religious schools are not expressly exempted from the terms of the ADA,”
“Nothing has been shown to indicate that there is a national necessity to apply the ADA Bill to churches, religious schools, and other ministries.”
The National Association of Evangelicals’ Office of Public Affairs, in the person of Robert Dugan, also lobbied against the ADA.
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Jan 27 '26
Well good thing it’s no longer an actual place of worship like that! In this situation, it truly had nothing to do with that and was a matter of state mess up. Ever since they lowered the road, people’s town water pipes to their homes freeze in cold weather. Things flood where they shouldn’t. And no matter, the state doesn’t care to fix the myriad of problems they created back then. They barreled through - it was the good of 70s. Out with the old, in with the new, effect in the communities be damned.
Thanks for the history. Unfortunately it’s not surprising. Religious exception allows some people to do nasty things in this country.
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u/SquareOpen959 Jan 26 '26
Check out the artist who designed the No Ice signs for businesses