We have an asshat for a mayor.

Here's what Larry Langford had to say when explaining his reasons for wanting to demolish Legion Field (from today's Birmingham News):

As for Legion Field, Langford said people don't even know what a Legion is.

"It has historical significance? What is a Legion?" Langford asked.

He then cited a Bible verse, in Mark, where a man possessed by demons called himself Legion.

"My name is Legion: for we are many," the man says before Jesus exorcises him of evil spirits.

This is about as ridiculous as the time I saw Mr. T deliver a sermon on TBN in which he said that we're a nation full of devil worshippers because we yell "Go Devils!" at Duke basketball games, or the time that Kirk Cameron said that evolution can't be real because the ridges on bananas so perfectly fit the indentations created by our fingers that it's obvious that God created bananas to fit our hands.

Seriously.

My source: Some say Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford distorting city history to achieve goals