Mobile Home Park Seeks To Require Resident To Remove Portrait of Virgin Mary

In Bradenton, Florida, a mobile home park, Bradenton Tropical Palms, has filed a demand for arbitration with the state's Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares and Mobile Homes in an attempt to require an 85-year old Catholic woman to remove a portrait of the Virgin Mary from the outside of her mobile home.  York Dispatch reports that the woman commissioned an artist to create the plywood painting which she installed to replace a window.  She contends that the park's enforcement attempt is anti-Catholic, and that she was targeted because of her religious beliefs. Management says she has failed to comply with park rules regarding her window replacement-- her filed paper work did not include a request for a change in appearance or design.