Posted on 11/19/2022 6:22:29 PM PST by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, Nov 18, 2022 / 17:30 pm A contest called #SíALosNacimientos (Yes to Nativity Scenes) seeks to fill public property throughout Mexico with Nativity scenes in response to an attempt to ban them.
Promoted by the platform Verdades Claras y Falsas Máximas A.C. (Clear Truths and False Maxims), the contest proposes that Mexicans “place Nativity scenes on public property and send photographs to our social media.”
“The material will be received from Nov. 27, the First Sunday of Advent, to Dec. 11, the Third Sunday of Advent,” the platform explained to ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language sister news agency.
In addition, the contest includes a written category, where participants can submit “an essay of between 2,000 and 4,000 words arguing why Nativity scenes and religious symbols have a place on public property.”
Father Pablo Patrito, a priest of Crusaders of Christ the King, a priestly society of apostolic life, explained that “the State is there to guarantee the common good” whose foundation “is human dignity.”
“When the State goes against human dignity, it is attacking the common good. When the State promotes human dignity, it is also firmly establishing the common good,” he explained.
The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), the highest judicial body in Mexico, will discuss and vote in the coming days on a draft ruling that could prohibit setting up “signs that allude to a specific religious conviction” on public property.
The draft ruling, prepared by Justice Juan Luis González Alcántara Carrancá, addresses a series of legal challenges by the nongovernmental organization Kanan Human Rights.
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Mexico will have to compete with Massachusetts and their bathtub shrines.
I thought Mexico was a very religious country??!!
Property values will go down making your town look like a homeless camp.
the people are, the government not so much...
Mexico seems to be moving towards Santa Muerte.
This predates the Spanish take over of that territory.
More so than we are. They are a proud people of faith. Very similar to Tea Party, they don't like to be pushed around by what ever government happens to be in power at the moment.
This is why the Mexican government always has to tread lightly when dealing with the population, they have always been a revolutionary lot. More than willing to cast off any government that steps out of line.
Sadly corruption has always held them back just like the rest of Latin American, they don't just tolerate it they demand it.
Bathtub shrines are common all over eastern Massachusetts.
OK, I’ve been to MA exactly twice, and it just so happens the 2nd time was last June. I just did an image search on massachusetts bathtub shrine. I did not realize this was a thing!
It is a Portuguese thing up there.
The state is on the march
Ah, that makes sense.
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