Pastor says He's Received Threats Over Mascot

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An evil spirit, or school spirit?  That's the debate going on in Warner Robins over a high school's mascot.  Alumni of warner robins high school consider the demon a tradition, but Donald Crosby has begun a petition against it and says that it forces his son to worship the devil.  

"You can tell them to bring it!" Crosby said referring to the backlash he's received.  "They think they've got more people backing them, I've got all of heaven backing me.  You should see the pride they have about the demon.  They're saying it's not worship, but they're fighting as hard for the demon as I'm fighting for Jesus!"

Crosby got national attention this week when he started a petition to remove the 60 year-old mascot, but not all of it has been good attention. He says people have called him a "negro", accused him of trying to get attention for his church, and even threatened his son.

But, not even that has stopped him from taking to the streets all over Macon and Warner Robins.  He's asking Christians to sign his petition to have all images of the demons inside Warner Robins High School taken down, painted over, or removed altogether.  So far, he says, more than 2,000 people have signed on.

Kim Plunkett has started her own petition on Facebook called 'Keep the Warner Robins Mascot.'  As of 12:30 pm Thursday, she says she had 2500 signatures and considers the demon both a family and city tradition.

"We're big on our school spirit, we're big on our football, we're big on our mascots," she said.  "When someone tries to take that from us, we're gonna fight."

It's a battle of wills that both sides are hell-bent on winning.