Connecticut bars Nativity display in state Capitol because it's 'religious,' lawsuit threat says

A Connecticut religious liberty group is challenging a state policy that barred it from displaying a Nativity scene inside the Capitol, arguing officials violated the First Amendment by prohibiting holiday displays solely because they were religious.

On Monday, First Liberty Institute sent a demand letter to Connecticut’s Joint Committee on Legislative Management on behalf of the Family Institute of Connecticut (FIC) after the organization was barred from exhibiting a small Nativity in the state Capitol building in December.

First Liberty Institute maintains that the Committee’s policy permits displays in the Capitol unless they are "religious in nature," and, in their letter with Jones Day, asks the Committee to remove the provision from its policy and allow the Nativity display this Christmas season. ---More...