Reply #9: This will show my age, but back when I was a kid in the 50's

[Mountainman]

there was never any discussion about the appropriateness of a nativity scene on public property. Also there wasn't much discussion about a woman's place in the home or about civil rights and many other things that people took for granted. Well not all people took them for granted. The people who were repressed by what we all took for granted began to speak up and that's why there is discussion today about these things. I think that the right wants to take us back to those days were anyone not in agreement with the majority should just shut the hell up and accept what we all take for granted.

This point here is that if we don't recognize our diversity than there will again be repression. A nativity scene on public property does not respect the beliefs of non Christians and for that reason and because I don't want to go back to the "good old days" I think we should not have a nativity scene on public property. Also there is so much more private property than public property that nativity scenes could be placed just about everywhere you look. Placing them on public property makes a statement that Christianity is the more accepted form of religious expression. I think that is wrong.