Posted on 12/23/2025 1:56:09 AM PST by Olog-hai
A small town committee in South Carolina kept a Nativity display in a market parking lot in defiance of the mayor’s order that it be taken down.
The controversy began in Mullins, South Carolina, around Thanksgiving when Kimberly Byrd, head of the Mullins Beautification Committee, said her committee would decorate the town’s new marketplace “like a Hallmark movie” for the Christmas season, believing it would draw in business.
The group paid for the decorations out of their own pocket and included a Nativity scene, but Mayor Miko Pickett reportedly asked that it be removed, fearing it would offend residents of other faiths. …
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
:: Since the scene was place of city property then it was in violation ::
In violation of what?
ah the blonde hair appropriation trick
Why is this woman appropriating WHITE PEOPLE HAIR.
Democrat Mayor Pickett feared the Nativity would "offend
residents of other faiths".............. so she ordered it removed.
Well, da Mayor felt emboldened. After all, she just had her hair AND nails done.
1. The first amendment has been used in past Supreme Court rulings to override local actions that would "prohibit the free exercise thereof" of religious practices. This applies especially to public property, which is why you can for example stand in front of an abortion clinic, on a public sidewalk, and hand out flyers that cite the Christian Bible and Jesus Christ.
2. The display is paid for privately; there is no cost to the city.
3. A further question might be is it a permanent display or structure. We know it is only there for the Christmas and taken down afterward. So it's not as though the parking lot is being repurposed as a religious site.
4. Is this within the Mayor's powers?. Can she citing a city ordinance being violated? If so, she could order the Police Chief to take it down. In a small town in SC, good luck with that. But if there is no ordinance, then she is behaving as a self-appointed judge, and be ignored.
Yes, you’re missing the context of the non-existence of that phrase. Separation of church and state is not in the constitution or founding laws. It was taken from a personal letter sent to a specific religion because they feared the government would come after them. The left has run on this and been using these words to erase religion from society—pretty successfully i may add. Religion and government are to exist side by side. Not having one suppress the other.
I could look it up but my phone would close out this site. I think the small church was in Connecticut and the Founding Father I can’t recall at the moment.
she just had her hair AND nails done is wrong
“Hair and nails did”…that’s the proper Ebonics
Oops......me wrong.....you right.
Our Nation’s Founders defined separation of church and state
<><>primarily through the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause,
<><>a clause prohibiting a national religion,
<><>and the Free Exercise Clause, protecting individual belief,
<><>they created a “wall of separation” (Jefferson’s phrase)
<><>the aim was to shield religion from government control
<><>and to keep government from meddling in religious establishment,
<><>they wanted to ensure religious freedom wasn’t coerced
<><>and that the state remained secular.
It meant no government-sponsored church, no compelling citizens to worship, but allowed religion’s moral influence in culture, ............with the government focused on civil matters, not doctrine.
Amen!! ✝️✝️✝️
JESUS CHRIST IS LORD AND KING OF KINGS
JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD
JESUS CHRIST IS THE ONLY MESSIAH FROM GOD
....................................
AMEN. He’s my Savior, too! Thank You Lord Jesus!
Virtue signalling writ large.
You did. Show me where that is in the Constitution.
I’ll wait.
[Democrat Mayor Pickett]
Oh... she’s a Democrat...I’m shocked, I tell ya! 😉😜
When you elect the Godless and the Reprobate Goats 🐐🐐🐐
You reap the spirit of antichrist and give it more power
‘It means everything’: Mullins elects first Black, female mayor in history
Mayor-elect Miko Picket is breaking barriers after the most recent election
By Logan Schiciano
Published: Nov. 8, 2024 at 7:31 PM EST
MULLINS, S.C. (WMBF) - Miko Pickett will make history on Tuesday when she’s sworn in as the first-ever Black, female mayor of Mullins.
“It means everything. My sweet mother-in-law raised her seven kids in Jim Crow America,” she said. “It is a lot, but it’s a challenge that I take on proudly and that I’m very excited for.”
South Carolina mayor tries to ice town Nativity scene, nabs Becket’s highest (dis)honor
WASHINGTON – The most outrageous offender of this year’s Christmas and Hanukkah season, and Becket’s 2025 Ebenezer Award winner, is Mayor Miko Pickett of Mullins, South Carolina, who ordered the removal of a Nativity scene from public property.
Combining constitutional confusion with holiday scroogery, the mayor cited America’s tradition of separation of church and state. But the Supreme Court has explained time and again that our law does not require local officials to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
America’s law and best traditions protect the right of citizens to celebrate their religious heritage without a government-ordered grinch turning out the lights.
Mayor Pickett’s order targeted a three-by-four-foot Nativity scene placed near Mullins’ marketplace as part of the city’s Christmas decorations, which also included a snowman, wreaths, lights, and Santa Claus.
The display was organized and paid for out of pocket by the Mullins Beautification Committee, which had been preparing the area for the marketplace’s first Christmas season. According to city employees, the mayor said the Nativity scene made the city appear “not neutral” toward religion.
When that threatened to turn a festive celebration into a public controversy just weeks before Christmas, Committee chair Kimberly Byrd defied the mayor and kept the Nativity scene, earning this year’s Tiny Tim Toast for her courage.
“It takes a special kind of scroogery to rob the townspeople of Christmas joy by coming after a Nativity scene,” said Mark Rienzi, president of Becket. “During this season of hope and charity, we should be protecting our neighbors’ right to express their faith freely, not banishing them for it. May this Ebenezer Award helpgovernmental hearts everywhere grow three sizes next year.”
Each year, the Christmas and Hanukkah season inspires outrageous offenses against the free exercise of religion.
[Mayor Pickett’s order
TARGETED A THREE-BY-FOUR-FOOT NATIVITY SCENE]
Oh my goodness, that’s 12 square feet!!
The horror!! 😨😲😱😧🙀🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Our main 4 corners in a town of 14,000 has a life size nativity. It is installed by private donated time and owned by a private group. A brass plaque says so. The other three corner parks have: Christmas trees; a very large Santa; and Santa in a sleigh with 8 reindeer 20 feet in the air.
“Too bad. This is America. We celebrate Christmas.
“If *other faiths* don’t like it, they can leave.”
Something similar happened with us a couple years ago. Our quilting group made Christmas quilts for children in a hospital in Knoxville.
The group leader said the hospital requested that none of the quilts have a religious theme in any way. Santa, Grinch, snowflakes are fine, but definitely no Baby Jesus, etc. The very existence of a Christian-themed quilt might be offensive to others.
The kids and their parents could choose ANY one they wanted, but that wasn’t good enough. They might SEE something Christian. That was the end of my participation in the project.
Anyhow, I figured what you said, I.e., “If *other faiths* don’t like it, they can leave.”
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