Christian Legal Group to Host Nativity Scenes Across U.S.
A Christian legal group has recently said that it will focus its efforts this Christmas season on ensuring that Christians have the right to religious freedom and free speech by setting up Nativity scenes in the U.S.
The Thomas More Society legal group has said this Christmas season, it will be sponsoring multiple Nativity scene displays across the United States in an effort to ensure that Christians can freely celebrate the holidays without censorship.
The sponsored Nativities will reportedly be set up at state capitols in Texas, Nebraska, Illinois, and Rhode Island, among other places.
"Anti-Christian, anti-Christmas rhetoric and Satanic expositions merely serve to provide sharp emphasis by means of their stark contrast with the positive, uplifting, hopeful and joyous message of Christmas," Tom Brejcha, Thomas More Society President and Chief Counsel, said in a statement posted to the Thomas More Society website.
"A message that bears secular as well as religious significance, as it highlights the hope and miracle of birth and new life, the inherent dignity of each and every human being, focusing our attention on the humble and lowly infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger amidst straw and animals, honored by shepherds and kings alike and heralded by choirs of angels," he added.
Atheist groups have already received criticism for setting up religiously offensive displays this holiday season.
The American Atheists group recently erected billboards in North Carolina and Colorado that feature Santa Claus telling Christians to "skip church this year," suggesting that it is possible to be a good person without believing in God.
Several residents have complained about the billboards, arguing that they are offensive to all religions during the holiday season, regardless if viewers celebrate Christmas or not.
