Zone1 South Carolina mayor bans nativity scenes in public

[HikerGuy83]

that is false -

separation of church and state: means neither may have a say in the others affairs ... or let the state preach from the church pulpit as it pleases.

Separation of Chruch and State is not a tennent of the Constitution.

The 1st Amendment says congress shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion. That means congress can not make the Luthern church the church of the United States.

That is how the constitution works. It applies to the federal government and it restricts their involvement (and interference).

After the Constitution was ratified, several states continued with state religions THAT WERE NEVER CHALLENGED IN COURT. They were eventually written out of the state constitutions, with the last one hanging around until the 1830's.

The term Separation or Wall of Separation was "coined" by Thomas Jefferson in an 1804 letter to the Danbury Baptists. Jefferson had no interest in telling states (or counties or cities) what they could and could not do. That is the concept of liberty and maximum freedom. But if you put up a nativity in your city and someone wants to put up a statue of satan in his business parking lot. You both can do it....unless you have idiots on the city council who don't understand how this works.

 

[HikerGuy83]

because desert dwellers have no morals and prefer the injustice as their special mission in life to impose themselves onto others.

You are completely clueless. Nobody cares what you want. You get what you are allowed under our laws.

 

[toobfreak]

that is false -

separation of church and state: means neither may have a say in the others affairs ... or let the state preach from the church pulpit as it pleases.

It means the State shall not impose on a citizen's religion; the State itself has no endemic religious "affairs" to impose upon nor does the State ever preach from the pulpit.

If what you said were true, tomorrow, the State could just switch all of its markings, plaques and buildings in DC having Christian markings, symbols and sayings over to Muslim, and you'd have no say in it.

My point being that "separation of Church and State" does not mean that the State shall be atheistic or non-religious, as demonstrated by our currency and many other things.

The State is merely an object, a thing, and a thing cannot practice religion nor have its religion violated.

 

[Anathema]

You want everyone to turn in their crosses & St Christopher medals ?

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No. Just cover them up in public. Wear whatever you want in private but I don’t need to see your religious attire in public.

That’s why I rarely wear anything that has a logo or message on it. There are no political signs on my lawn and no bumper stickers on my car.,

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You want everyone to turn in their crosses & St Christopher medals ?

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Just watch them try to take my Rosary.

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[norwegen]

Christmas is a federal holiday. Merry Christmas, federal government.

 

[protectionist]

No. Just cover them up in public. Wear whatever you want in private but I don’t need to see your religious attire in public.

That’s why I rarely wear anything that has a logo or message on it. There are no political signs on my lawn and no bumper stickers on my car.,

Suit yourself, but don't tell others what to say, or not say. Banning speech is going in the wrong direction. Should only be done when absolutely necessary.

 

[Anathema]

Suit yourself, but don't tell others what to say, or not say. Banning speech is going in the wrong direction. Should only be done when absolutely necessary.

My concern is my personal control. I see many of the messages and the first response that pops into my head is neither polite nor legal. I walk in public and almost immediately want to become a hermit for the rest of my existence. Especially knowing that if I wore my ideologies on my chest or my home or my car, I would be publicly shamed, canceled and otherwise abused.

This doesn’t happen when I find myself in communities or situations where those messages are not publicly displayed.

That’s why I do my best not to go out in public unless I truly have to.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That’s why I do my best not to go out in public unless I truly have to.

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Good idea.






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[Anathema]

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Good idea.

I do my best, but it’s not always possible. Which means when I do go out everyone is at risk simply because they cannot keep their opinions to themselves. I go out of my way not to pollute public spaces with my ideology, why can’t others just do the same?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

why can’t others just do the same?

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Because you want them to?







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[Anathema]

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Because you want them to?

No. Because it’s common courtesy. I go out of my way to try and not offend people in public, even when they are saying, doing, or wearing things that I find repulsive or disgraceful. Why can’t they have that same respect for me?

I’m not asking them to change their beliefs, just to shut tge hell up avoutvtf on public.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Why can’t they have that same respect for me?

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Because they'd have to be able to read your mind to know what's not offensive to you.







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[Blaster]

Why do they consider a Nativity scene to be harmful to the community?

 

[skye]

Why do nice people, who want to exhibit a Nativity scene in their town, elect an asshole like this mayor? I expect this same question to be asked in NYC in 2026.

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[SaxonJackson]

Wacky woke mayor of Mullins, South Carolina (where there's a Christian church on every corner), Miko Pickett, demanded the removal of a nativity scene as part of a marketplace Christmas decoration, because it violated "separation of church and state." (of which there is not a word of in the Constitution).

The Mullins Beautification Committee spent two weeks in late November getting everything ready for the marketplace's first Christmas season, paying for decorations out of their own pockets. They added one more item to complete the scene: a modest three-by-four-foot Nativity display showing the birth of Jesus Christ.

Woke mayor, supported by a few equally wokey city councilmembers, insisted the nativity scene must go. The Committee held firm and refused to remove the display. Good for them/

This seems to be another unpleasant doing of the left, as it digs its unapproval hole deeper & deeper every time they open their mouths.
Left-wing churches in Massachusetts and Illinois are staging "protest Nativities" showing ICE agents arresting the Holy Family — grotesque political stunts that use the birth of Christ to attack Trump's border enforcement.

In Ohio, city officials blocked a private citizen from setting up a live Nativity scene on public property, despite allowing other forms of public expression on the same veteran's green.

The attacks on Christian symbols accelerate every December while officials bend over backward accommodating every other religious tradition. You want a menorah in the town square? No problem. Kwanzaa display at city hall? Go right ahead. But put up a Nativity scene celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ in a town where churches sit on every corner? Suddenly government lawyers discover the "separation of church and state", that doesn't exist anywhere in the Constitution.

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In the meantime:

God? Out!
Christ? Out!
Christianity? Out!

Judaism? Come on in. Welcome. What can we do to make your more comfortable?

 

[Anathema]

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Because they'd have to be able to read your mind to know what's not offensive to you.

The. You just don’t wear anything either logos, ideology, politics or religion.

 

[otto105]

Yet, every one of these woke commies gladly takes CHRISTMAS off work with pay.

If they had any integrity, they would work that day, or refuse payment for staying home.

Get your ass off our public infrastructure fascist.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The. You just don’t wear anything either logos, ideology, politics or religion.

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Nope.

If you don't want to see what people wear, stay home.





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[Anathema]

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Nope.

If you don't want to see what people wear, stay home.

I do that as much as possible, in fact if I could get away with it I would never leave my house again. Unfortunately that is not currently a feasible lifestyle for me.

So every time I go out I just hope I can contain my temper enough not to shoot anyone before I get home