There are at least two things you can count on when it comes to Americans and Christmastime. One is that they like to put up Nativity scenes. The other is that they don’t like being told what to do, especially by outsiders.
So you can imagine how the residents of an Indiana town feel about a Wisconsin-based atheist group demanding that they remove the Nativity scene they have displayed by the Franklin County Courthouse every holiday season for the past 50 years.
Never mind tradition. Forget the fact that most of the residents of Brookville, Indiana, like the Nativity scene and want it up. The Freedom From Religion Foundation is here to out-Grinch the Grinch with a patently absurd message: the Nativity scene violates the separation of church and state.
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