Wiccan Display at (Green Bay) City Hall Vandalized

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Green Bay police say at about 12:45 Monday morning, someone used a ladder to remove a Wiccan wreath from the awning over the entrance to City Hall.

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The Wiccan wreath was put up Friday, but police say now it's been taken down and vandalized.

A citizen saw what was happening and flagged down a patrol officer.

The ladder was left at the scene, and the wreath as found behind some bushes, damaged.

The suspect is a white man with an average build, who was wearing a gray parka-like coat with a gray hat that had earflaps. Initially he was reported to be a short man, but now police say he was between 5'10" and six feet tall.

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Green Bay vandalism leads to moratorium on religious displays at City Hall

Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

GREEN BAY — Mayor Jim Schmitt has declared a moratorium on any more religious displays atop a City Hall overhang until the City Council can take up the issue today.


With a pagan Wiccan wreath knocked off the roof by a vandal early Monday, a Christian nativity creche was the lone symbol left.


Schmitt said the wreath would not be reinstalled until the City Council weighed in on draft guidelines.


"We're trying to put guidelines in place," Schmitt said.


That drew cries of unfair treatment from two residents who brought their own symbols Monday in hopes of having them placed there.


"How is that fair to leave the manger up but not the non-Christian symbols?" said Taku Ronsman, who brought a peace display that she said represents the Unitarian Universalist faith.

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