When it comes to being a lightning rod and protester, June Griffin is Colin Kaepernick, and vice versa.
Griffin, our boisterous Rhea County right-winger, has made headlines because she wants to stop a statue of Clarence Darrow from being erected in Dayton. You folks remember Darrow, right? He’s the 1920s lawyer who defended a teacher in the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial almost a century ago.
FILE – In this Dec. 4, 2016, file photo, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick warms up before an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears. Spike Lee said on Instagram Sunday, March 19, 2017, that it was “fishy” that Kaepernick, now a free agent, hadn’t been signed.” (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) 
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To be fair here, while I believe in the Lord and his great works in Creation, you could make an argument that the folks in the tourism industry in Dayton, a city that welcomes thousands of history buffs and sightseers every year, should be behind the Darrow monument on principle alone.
Of course, when it comes to debates of passion in the modern age, principle and perspective have long since been banished. But we’ll get to that in a moment.
No, whether you think Griffin’s far-right positions are 100 percent credible or crazy, we must all embrace her right to have a position.