I fail to understand how a Wisconsin-based advocacy group has standing in an issue involving a display on county-government property in Texas.
I’m not a Texan, but God bless Texas!
This is TX, not some pissbucket worthless republic del norte.
How smart can the Wisconsin yankees be if they can’t make a profit?
The folks in Athens, Texas should ‘invite’ the folks from Wisconsin down so they can try to take down the town’s nativity scene.
I’d be willing to pay $30 to watch the action on Pay-Per-View.
“The Supreme Court has ruled against nativity scenes on government property in the past”
I seemed to have missed that ruling..
When did that happen?
I see these people are still at it.
Must be nice that a nativity display is the biggest thing they have to worry about.
“I’m an old country boy, you come to my house looking for a fight, you’re going to get one,” said County Commissioner Joe Hall. “That’s from the bottom of my heart.”
OUTSTANDING response!!
“I ain’t gonna back down,” Hall said. “I haven’t and I won’t.”
I get the feeling his response ended with “and the horse you rode in on”...good for him!
As soon as I read the title I knew it would be those a-holes of Freedom from Religion. They have been muckraking in this state for a long time.
Every christian resident in Athens should put up a nativity
Scene on their front lawns, and ask residents of Wisconsin to do the same so that support is seen for proper Ethics, based on our Founding Fathers wishes, that America be based on The Law of God.
Tell the Wisconsin group to shove it up their smelly Obamas.
Use exact wording.
I interviewed for a job in Athens about 4 years ago. I was offered the job and started house hunting in December. One of the first things I noticed was the nativity scene on the square and I thought “this is going to be a great place to live.” And it is!
I work in Athens...and just love the nativity scene every year. Wisconsin should mind their own backyard and leave ours alone!
I like his grit.
“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.” —George Washington, circular letter of farewell to the Army, 1783
“It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.” —John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
“I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?” —Benjamin Franklin, Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention, 1787
What I don’t understand is that it is a county court house, not federal. Seems to me it would be a state issue to deal with. (see tag line)
I’m an avowed, lifelong atheist who has no objection at all to the placement of this nativity scene display.