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PA Commmunity Battles Atheist Complaints with Display of Jesus’ Birth

PA Commmunity Battles Atheist Complaints with Display of Jesus’ Birth

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On Platform in Front of City Hall     Secularists battling against nativities is nothing new, but 2012 has brought some major victories for atheists. Consider Santa Monica, California, where a 60-year nativity tradition has been banned; other communities have backed down over fears that Christian themes will be legally challenged by…

Berkeley students seek Christmas ban on Salvation Army bell ringers

Berkeley students seek Christmas ban on Salvation Army bell ringers

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By Oliver Darcy, http://www.campusreform.org The student government at the University of California-Berkeley (CAL) passed a resolution last month that would ban Salvation Army bell ringers and their iconic red kettles from campus this Christmas because of the Christian organization’s alleged bias against homosexuality. The resolution, cleared on November 14, accuses the…

Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It’s Not ‘Tradition’ to Call It a Christmas Tree

Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It’s Not ‘Tradition’ to Call It a Christmas Tree

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By Jon Street CNSNews   Gov. Lincoln Chafee (I-R.I.) told CNSNews.com on Wednesday that his administration calls the decorated evergreen tree erected in the Rhode Island State House in December a “holiday tree”–rather than a “Christmas tree”–because that is what the tree is traditionally called. CNSNews.com spoke with Chafee following his…

Lawsuit threat cancels Christmas concert

Lawsuit threat cancels Christmas concert

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  By Rick Daysog | Hawaii News Now   HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A threatened lawsuit had put a halt to what’s become a Christmas tradition for members of the Moanalua High School orchestra. For the past six years, the award-winning group and volunteers from the New Hope Church have raised more than…

Christmas tree banned

Christmas tree banned

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Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall By Mariecar Mendoza, Staff Writer http://www.dailynews.com/   Residents in a Newhall senior apartment complex are protesting an order from management to remove their beloved Christmas tree from the community room because, they were told, it’s a religious symbol. On Tuesday,…