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• ‘Intimidation’: Atheists Demand That Texas Nativity Scene Be Torn Down Immediately

  December 8, 2011 at 6:30pm

  In reply to Captain Crunch.

  In 1870, President Grant signed a law making Christmas Day a federal holiday, a national day of celebration.

  The Supreme Court has heard this argument before. Read the case LYNCH v. DONNELLY, 465 U.S. 668 (1984) (http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=465&invol=668)

  (c) Our history is pervaded by official acknowledgment of the role of religion in American life, and equally pervasive is evidence of accommodation of all faiths and all forms of religious expression and hostility toward none.

  “President Washington and his successors proclaimed Thanksgiving, with all its religious overtones, a day of national celebration and Congress made it a National Holiday more than a century ago. Ch. 167, 16 Stat. 168. That holiday has not lost its theme of expressing thanks for Divine aid any more than has Christmas lost its religious significance.

  Executive Orders and other official announcements of Presidents and of the Congress have proclaimed both Christmas and Thanksgiving National Holidays in religious terms.

  … display of the creche is no more an advancement or endorsement of religion than the Congressional and Executive recognition of the origins of the Holiday itself as “Christ’s Mass,” or the exhibition of literally hundreds of religious paintings in governmentally supported museums.”

  Government cannot be ANTI-RELIGION – that is the law!