Posted on 11/10/2020 6:21:17 PM PST by marshmallow
In Woodring v. Jackson County, Indiana, (SD IN, Nov. 3, 2020), an Indiana federal district court refused to stay its final judgment pending appeal in a case challenging the annual display of a creche on the county courthouse lawn. The court said in part:
Because the crèche straddles the sidewalk subdividing the lawn and the more-secular figures are placed on the periphery, the venerable magi and hallowed manger share center stage. Id. Since the primary focus of the display is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, a reasonable observer would believe that Jackson County was endorsing a particular religion, that is, Christianity......
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In 2020 it’s easy enough - make the manger scene all black figures and call it a protest and free speech.
Then let’s not have Christmas as a holiday, and make all government workers work on that day.
“...shall not prohibit the free exercise (of religion) therof...”
The part of the U.S. Constitution continuously and flagrantly violated by the courts.
Just ignore this court.
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