Rita Warren sets up her Jesus mannequin on the House side of the U.S. Capitol building on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call).
Capitol Hill’s staple religious activist known as “Jesus Lady” returned to her old stomping grounds Thursday, one month after she said she suffered a heart attack.
After hauling her signature life-size statue of the messiah, Rita Warren, a career protester in her late 80s, said she planned to air grievances to Capitol Police because they won’t let her drive onto the Hill’s plaza anymore.
A spokeswoman for Capitol Police said no meeting took place.
The new rule left her having to carry the cast figure from the barricade — a task made more arduous by her health problems.
Still, Warren vowed to press on in her divine fight to remind lawmakers of God. Warren is known for taking lawmakers to task from the East Front steps. She once challenged former Speaker John A. Boehner, via open letter, demanding the Ohio Republican once and for all address her plan to have actor Robert Powell recite the Sermon on the Mount scene from “Jesus of Nazareth” for lawmakers.
Her requests to meet with current Speaker Paul D. Ryan have so far been unanswered, she said.
Via Roll Call.
Quick, tell the RealDoll people there’s a market for jesus realdolls.
And get them in touch with Chuck Tingle, too.
I can see it now: Jesus Realdoll standing on a sup board.
Marcus:
Oh gods, no. The horror!
I imagine that if someone were to haul a life-sized statue of Muhammad to the capital steps, it’d be blown up in a controlled detonation as a suspected bomb. Possibly before it even arrives at the capital building.
(This is, of course, ignoring that a statue of Muhammad would annoy parts of the Muslim community; nor is there, as far as I know, any tradition of statues of Muhammad.)
That’s just a plain old mannequin, and I’m sure someone could probably dress a mannequin in a reasonable facsimile of Muhammad, whereupon it would promptly be blown up by cops, along with whoever brought it there.
Maybe just a darker beard instead of light brown and you would have a Mohamed (or Jesus or just about any other Abrahamic Religion Scripture Dude, except Pontius Pilatus).
Could we get a Realdoll version of Isis and Thor, maybe Bast, Freya…..
…I’ll be in my bunk. :0
Hmm, which would be better, getting banged by Thor or getting hammered with Thor.
I think I’d better stop.
Ice Swimmer @ 8:
You couldn’t do both? After reading Thor The Goddess of Thunder, no one rocks as much as Freya. I’ll take her over Thor any day. Besides, Thor always has those goats with him…