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Related: About this forumAtheist display ends lawsuit threat over Harrison County Nativity scene
BY ANITA LEE
GULFPORT -- The American Humanist Association is calling off a threatened lawsuit against Harrison County over a Nativity scene in the courthouse lobby because the county allowed an alternative display.
Just before lunch Tuesday, the county allowed the Mississippi Gulf Coast Humanist, Atheist and Freethinker Association to put up a sign at the location of its choosing. The group chose a spot next to the Nativity display county employees have put up for years.
The sign the humanists put up wishes everyone "Happy Holidays," says "Reason's Greetings" and includes a graphic showing the reason for the season is the tilt of the earth's axis ...
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/counties/harrison-county/article51089840.html
edhopper
(33,591 posts)Government endorsement of religion must be fought.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I think it might educate the populous. The sign will get a glance ....maybe. A nice display on what they believe is better I think.
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)What more do you want?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Yorktown
(2,884 posts)Because the Festivus pole just doesn't cut it.
struggle4progress
(118,297 posts)This is why I come here to DU!
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)for he shall ne'er stray from his own chosen path.
gospel of Nestor, 9:17