Is a Servant of God Supposed to Have Good Taste?Tommi Avicolli Meccabyline‚ Jan. 11‚ 2007Estrella Benavides' neighbors in San Mateo, California think so. Benavides, a self-proclaimed "servant of God," has painted her roof and car with large-lettered messages from the Big Cheese in the sky. Rambling passages that speak to some of the burning issues of our day: Gays and lesbians, Fidel Castro and hurricane Katrina, among them. Her display has pitted her against her neighbors and against the law. She insists it's the will of God. The 48-year-old is no stranger to doing unpleasant things to please her heavenly master. She once clamped shut her mouth with two large pins to keep herself from breaking the religious fast he demanded of her. Apparently, God first started talking to her through a statue in her local church. |