First Battle of the 2009 Christmas Culture War is here

Michigan's Macomb County Road Commission orders removal of privately maintained Nativity scene at crossroads of city

October 27, 2009

Ask the Macomb County Road Commission to rescind their order removing a privately maintained Nativity scene set at the crossroads of the city. The Christmas culture wars for 2009 have begun and ground zero is the Detroit suburb of Warren, which for 63 years has hosted a privately maintained Nativity scene set at the crossroads of the city.

The Nativity display had been maintained by Warren city resident John Satawa and his family for most of the municipality's history until the Macomb County Road Commission this year ordered the display removed because they say it "clearly displays a religious message" in violation of the "separation of church and state."

The Road Commission informed Satawa of its decision upon receiving a letter in December 2008 from the Freedom from Religion Foundation, which purported to act on behalf of a complainant in the city of 134,000 residents, saying the display violated the Constitution. (See letter here)

The Thomas Moore Law Center has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Stawa against the Road Commission. Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Law Center, said that militant atheists attempt to do through the courts what the Taliban by force had done to Afghanistan: remove all the symbols of the country's national heritage.

The Nativity dates from 1945, just five years after the incorporation of the Village of Warren, which then boasted 582 inhabitants.

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Ask the Macomb County Road Commission to rescind their order removing a privately maintained Nativity scene set at the crossroads of the city.
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=============== COMMENTS ===============

11/14/2009 7:38:01 AM
Shameful that the author of this article didn't point out that there is no such language "seperation of church and state" in our Constitution. This is a lie, told often enough that most believe it, by the Liberal fanatics. Read the Constitution. Or listen to Dr. Mark Levin....a Constitution Attorney. Just bing or google "marklevinshow.com".

11/12/2009 6:06:41 PM
Christmas is not about shopping! The fact that you are harassing these companies to advertise Christmas is just emphasizing the commercialism of Christmas. Really - let's keep CHRIST in Christmas!

11/11/2009 11:57:36 AM
IF we really want to put "Christ back in Christmas", then I don't think the most Christian way to go about doing that is boycotting a secular business b/c they don't slap a word on their marketing campaign that will give us an excuse as Christians for focusing on greed and excess in the name of Christ. Instead we could start with not focusing on buying an insane, inordinate amount of gifts for everyone that has absolutely nothing to do with Christ or the celebration of Christmas. We could LOVE people and actually act like Christians...

11/10/2009 6:58:23 AM
It doesn't matter what day it is, it's the point.

11/4/2009 9:17:11 PM
I can nor support you in this fight. Yeshua (Jesus) was not born on Dec 25th. Most pagan gods (Tammuz in Babilon, Zeus in Greece, Mithra in Persia and Rome, Ra in Egipt etc) celebrated their births on that date. Jesus was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles. He was born on the 15th day of the seventh month in the year 3998 of the Biblical calendar, which that year corresponded with Sep,26 3BC. "The Word became flesh and dwelt (tabernacled, sukkoted)among us" John 1:14 Let's stop celebrating the pagan "holidays".

10/30/2009 11:32:46 AM
I think the whole of the US would go crazy if thy tried to do away with the day all together.. Keep Christ in Christmas

10/29/2009 9:56:24 AM
I also attempted to email. But it was returned as undeliverable for I am sure their email system is flooded or they have not the courage to receive emails. We should therefore just send a letter. The new world order must be stopped.

10/28/2009 3:56:42 AM
I sent the email(or tried to), but I got a notice in my email that it didn't go thru.

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