NASCAR is one of the most popular sports in the country, but one church in Indianapolis taking a stand, banning one woman's wishes to give her husband a sports-themed headstone.
According to Yahoo.com, Shannon Carr paid $10,000 on a custom headstone that was shaped like a couch with the NASCAR logo, the logo of the Indianapolis Colts and a deer and a dog for her husband Jason, who dies in 2009. Rev. Jonathan Meyer, who priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church, said that the headstone did not meet the standards for the local cemetery in Indianapolis and that it would not be used in the graveyard.
From the report: "The Rev. Jonathan Meyer, priest at St. Joseph Catholic Church, notified the monument maker that the headstone didn't meet the cemetery's standards and couldn't be placed in the church's century-old graveyard, The Republic reported. But Carr says in her lawsuit that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis Properties Inc., which owns the cemetery, never produced any regulations for the plot until more than a year after she tried to have the headstone installed in 2010."
Meyer said that Carr knew that the church would not accept the stone before she purchased it, although the ruled were not adopted officially until after she paid for it. According to the report, the case falls out the court's jurisdiction and doesn't meet the requirements under the first amendment.
"Our culture breaks all the rules to make people feel good," he said. "Faithful Christians know rules and regulations are set up so there can be good for everyone" Meyer added.