Huge cross lit up a Missouri town’s Christmas display for 20 years. No more, city says

That town is doing the right thing. Good for them:-)

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A huge cross may be coming down from a public park in Missouri after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent the city a complaint.

The telephone-pole sized cross has lit up every Christmas season for over 20 years as part of a “drive-through holiday light display” through Finley River Park in Ozark, the Christian County Headliner News reported. Ozark is a city of about 17,820 people in Christian County.

The cross is made from a permanent utility pole and lights, the newspaper reported, and it is one of dozens of displays in the public park.

In a statement posted to Facebook, the city said it received a complaint to take the cross down.


“While we respect the interests of those who have long enjoyed the holiday display in Finley River Park, we must acknowledge the Federal Constitution and its interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court,” the city said.

In twenty years every city in the US will have the daily call to prayer blasted over speakers.

Im sure all you little anti christers will perish together. You certainly will have company.

I'm tired of commie fucks telling me what I can and can't do. I'm not listening to them. Force march on the power and tell them how it is.

surround that cross with bikers or some vets and wait for the ONE complainer to come by and say some shit.

I don't understand how certain decorations can be banned.

Christmas itself is a christian holiday.
How can you officially celebrate Christmas at all?

They really should just call off Christmas all together if they want to be PCtards.

Your not even trying to hide the Nazi brownshirt tactics anymore. (Never really fooled anybody in the first place)

In twenty years every city in the US will have the daily call to prayer blasted over speakers.

This group right here is a HATE group.

FFRF

They are a non profit and use our tax dollars to bully small towns from using anything Christian.

Look at this satanic "Kids" Book.

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Freedom From Religion is a non profit.
They deserve to be stripped of this designation.
If enough Christians started a movement to get this groups designation removed, they would lose funding.
To think, tax dollars are being used to fund a non-profit that literally fucks me and my upbringing and heritage.

This group right here is a HATE group.

FFRF

They are a non profit and use our tax dollars to bully small towns from using anything Christian.

Look at this satanic "Kids" Book.

[link to shop.ffrf.org (secure)]

Freedom From Religion is a non profit.
They deserve to be stripped of this designation.
If enough Christians started a movement to get this groups designation removed, they would lose funding.
To think, tax dollars are being used to fund a non-profit that literally fucks me and my upbringing and heritage.

I don't mind myself, but the fairy tale does need to end or at least be recognized as a fairy tale.

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A huge cross may be coming down from a public park in Missouri after the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent the city a complaint.

The telephone-pole sized cross has lit up every Christmas season for over 20 years as part of a “drive-through holiday light display” through Finley River Park in Ozark, the Christian County Headliner News reported. Ozark is a city of about 17,820 people in Christian County.

The cross is made from a permanent utility pole and lights, the newspaper reported, and it is one of dozens of displays in the public park.

In a statement posted to Facebook, the city said it received a complaint to take the cross down.


“While we respect the interests of those who have long enjoyed the holiday display in Finley River Park, we must acknowledge the Federal Constitution and its interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court,” the city said.

“While we respect the interests of those who have long enjoyed the holiday display in Finley River Park, we must acknowledge the Federal Constitution and its interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court,” the city said.


The cross was unplugged by the city on Tuesday, KY3 reported, and now the city is “evaluating its options to keep it up or not.”

The statement says the letter “brought a concern” to the city’s attention, and the city “cannot ignore the First Amendment which protects freedom of speech, protects freedom of the press, protects the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and prohibits the government from making laws or taking actions that may promote or prohibit one religion over another.”

City staff decided a lawsuit over the huge cross is one the city would not win.

“It is the position of the City of Ozark that leaving a religious symbol on public property, in this case a cross, will result in a law suit that we will not win as the other communities throughout the U.S. and our own region have tried this and lost,” the statement says.

Nope, city reconsidered and will light the cross

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true, but for just once I'd like to see a story like this with the complainer being sent a letter stating "tough ***, you'll get over it".

In twenty years every city in the US will have the daily call to prayer blasted over speakers.

surround that cross with bikers or some vets and wait for the ONE complainer to come by and say some shit.

Isn’t the cross an Easter symbol?