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Actually, the Santa Monica case was Christians fighting because the city stopped allowing any Christmas decorations in a city park. The city held a lottery to determine who got spots, and the atheists displays were vandalized. The city also said it was costing too much time and money to set up the lottery and the grass at the park was being destroyed.
I heard a differnt story
the athiest sued the city because of the christian decorations...so the city set up a lottery. which the athiests BOUGHT all the permits, thus NOT ALLOWING the christian things to be displayed
I definitely think they should be. As should decorations for other holidays. Who cares? I'm not going to be offended if I see decorations from other religions. There is such a thing as being TOO politically correct.
Actually, it should be up to the individual state and/or local city to determine if it should be allowed. That is, if we actually want to follow the Constitution.
That's not correct. The Supreme Court interpreted the 14th Amendment to mean that all of the Constitutional prohibitions against the federal government or the Congress also apply to all state and local governments.
Christmas Day is a Federal/State Holiday in the United States, and is celebrated by 96% of Americans (80% of Americans are Christians).
Christmas is celebrated because of the birth of Christ 2,000 year's ago (Even according to the federal website over holidays).
Since we have 'separation of religion and state', should Christmas decorations be allowed and be put in public places, such as city parks, city halls, state buildings, federal buildings?
I noticed that the pictures you chose to start the thread seem to have a religious theme. Suppose the community decorations consist only of light strings, big snowflakes and tree ornament displays that are not religious in nature. That would have been a more neutral start to the thread. But, noooo!
the athiest sued the city because of the christian decorations...so the city set up a lottery. which the athiests BOUGHT all the permits, thus NOT ALLOWING the christian things to be displayed
They started the lottery to be fair. You can't buy a lottery, it is a random drawing. The atheists won 18 out of 23. Maybe more atheists applied thus improving their odds. Maybe Christians just got to complacent in their 60 years of preferential treatment and didn't apply in large numbers.
No it's not. Every normal human knows that Christmas is due to birth of Christ.
Yes, buying gifts is part of Christmas, and its origin has to do with Christmas if you read more about it.
What do you want retailers to do? Put up "Jesus Christ birthday coupon"
Christmas <-- Name says it all.
No they don't. Are you suggesting that everyone that celebrates Christmas because it is fun is not normal?
Says who? That's definitely not in the Constitution. That wasn't the intent of the founding fathers. They just didn't want the federal government telling us what religion we had to be or giving special treatment.
Who should we trust to interpret the Constitution?
It doesn't violate anything, read up about the first amendment. It's whiners that like to think that you can't have a religious symbol on public property. You sure can and it violates nothing.
When did you get appointed to overturn the Supreme Court?
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