A Norfolk Superior Court judge yesterday issues a preliminary injunction that bars Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch for now from adorning a new police/fire building with statues of a winged Saint Michael crushing the head of a demon screaming in agony and Saint Florian dousing a fire with an oversized pitcher.

The injunction will last as long as a group of residents pursue their lawsuit against permanent installation of the statues, as a violation of the state constitution's bar against separation of church and state.

In his ruling, Judge William Sullivan blasted Koch for pursuing the statuary in secret, even as they were being bought with public money, and said the plaintiffs had a good chance of legal victory because the statues so obviously represent a Catholic view of the world, which he sai

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