The use of religious symbolism in politics isn’t new ... appropriating religious practice and using race to separate sheep from goat in the service of power on earth, are a profoundly different ...

Like an apparition that happens to involve a forklift, a truck and a 22-hour drive, a bronze statue of a goat-headed-and-winged ... The 7 1/2-foot figure is a symbol of pluralism, legal equality ...