For years, legal battles have been waged over whether religious displays on public property are protected under the First Amendment or barred by it. But now atheists and other non-religious groups have taken their constitutional arguments one step further. Instead of opposing Nativity scenes on town greens and in city parks, they’re pushing to put up their own signs and banners in the same places.
The charge is being led by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), which has tangled with municipal governments and religious leaders from coast to coast. The latest skirmish is in Connecticut, where the foundation wants to put up a banner in a Shelton park stating, in part: “There are not gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell.”
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