Dear Loudoun County, Virgina, officials, no, a Christmas display that just has the Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (but no angels) will not pass Constitutional muster. No matter how offended you were as devout Christians that last years' compromise to open displays to everyone ended up with a bunch of non-Christian displays, it doesn't make it all better to simply … um, restrict it to a Christian display. In fact, it seems to be a huge step backward.
Listen, y'know how irked you were by those non-Christian displays. Other people get irked by the Christian displays. So either you let everyone get irked, or you don't let anyone get irked, but you don't practice backward logic and decide if anyone's going to get irked it might as well be the non-Christians because they're all probably going to hell anyway.
Really. I mean, did IQs in Loudoun Co. drop in the last year?
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You'd think after so many places have lost so many lawsuits on this issue that they'd learn by now that it's an everyone or no one issue. You either allow all of us to put up a display or none of us.
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The War on Christmas is Already Beginning
For years now, Loudoun County, Virginia officials have been trying to figure out how to handle holiday displays on public property — the county courthouse. Last Winter, they opened the floodgates and allowed all groups that wanted them to have displays. Of the 10 displays, most of them came from non-Christians This year, they’re not taking that chance. The Loudoun County Courts Grounds and Facilities Committee met earlier this week to discuss the issue. Committee member John Mileo argued that…
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