re: #8 KingKenrod

If a public place is designated for free speech displays, then religious groups have equal access for their speech - as long as the same rules (city permits, for instance) apply to everyone. Religious folks don’t lose their free speech rights just because they are on public property.

Yep. All the rules were followed, but the atheist and other tongue-in-cheek displays were vandalized. The Christian group that put up the nativity complained because they didn’t get to dominate the display, and they lost in the lottery.

Religion shouldn’t be privileged above other forms of speech. They couldn’t handle that.

They also then acted like assholes:

“The atheists won,” said William Becker, attorney for the Nativity group. He then went on to compare the city to Pontius Pilate, the judge at Jesus’ trial, saying: “It’s a shame about Christmas. Pontius Pilate was exactly the same kind of administrator.”