Posted on 12/08/2018 5:33:24 PM PST by Maudeen
It wouldn't be Christmas without some local-government official banning the display of a Nativity scene on public property.
In this latest case, the church displaying the crèche had already received permission and had a 1984 Supreme Court ruling that such displays are legal as long as other non-religious or non-sectarian symbols are allowed.
But what if no one else cares to put up an alternate display of competing symbols?
According to these bureaucrats, the burden falls on the church ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
This was a letter to a private individual. How can it possibly be elevated to constitutional law?
Surely some judge somewhere could say there is no basis for banning such displays in the LAW.
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