The Attorney General does not hide his deep religious faith - one need only read his remarks at Bob Jones University to get some appreciation of that - and a lot of deeply religious people do believe in a heaven and a hell and the devil. And it’s possible that his aides were kidding, or overly sensitive, when they discussed covering the naked statue. That said, it's certainly possible that Ashcroft doesn't actually believe calico cats are signs of the devil, even though his aides said he does. I got this odd story from someone who was definitely in a position to know and then confirmed it with someone else, also in a position to know. I've written for a variety of magazines over the last 30 years, including a column in TIME for several years, and have some appreciation of the need not to publish allegations as true unless I've checked them out. (The Spirit of Justice statue is a female figure with one exposed breast.)Ī week later, Tobias' column explained where he had obtained the information about Ashcroft and calico cats from:
#Black calico cat full#
Unusual as this passage may sound, note that the parenthetical comment was written a full two months before ABC News reported that Attorney General Ashcroft had ordered the Spirit of Justice and Majesty of Law statues in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice be covered because he didn't like being photographed in front of them. (The advance team also spied a statue of a naked woman in the courtyard and discussed the possibility of its being covered for the visit, though that request was not ultimately made.) Their boss, they explained, believes calico cats are signs of the devil. They were worried there might be a calico cat. An advance team showed up at the American embassy in the Hague to check out the digs, saw cats in residence, and got nervous.
These colors can come in various shades of dilution, from soft grey to brown, ginger, cream, amber, red, and cinnamon - called dilute torties. Their mottled coats are as a result of what genetics call Lyonization.
Shortly after becoming Attorney General, John Ashcroft was headed abroad. Tortoiseshell Cats, often called torties for short, have a combination of two colors, normally black and orange.
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