Is There a War on Christmas?
Dearborn joins other cities each year in displaying a manger scene in a public park.
The holiday decorations are up at City Hall Park in Dearborn: A sprawling, lit-up "Season's Greetings" welcomes drivers and pedestrians on Michigan Avenue in east downtown. And next to it, a Christmas nativity scene. Is it an OK display for the holiday season? In November, Santa Monica officials opted to forego their traditional Christmas display due to pushback from local athiests. Several area churches involved with the setup sued, but their case was dismissed in federal court on Nov. 30, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press. Also this month in Michigan, a Warren man won his court battle to be able to put up a nativity scene on Mound Road. According to Fox 2, it was something his family had done since the 1940s, until being stopped …
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haji
9:14 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
well said yellowman... i have no problem with ppl saying happy holidays, but if someone wants to say merry chistmas then so be it - and if someone has a problem with saying it then they just need to reply happy holidays back at them and just honor the spirit in which it was meant to be given - and just smile! If we can wish happy Eid to muslim ppl then we can wish merry christmas to christans and… more ›