FFRF objects to religious symbol at Ohio Capitol

[MellowDem]

5. I wouldn't object if other symbols were part of the display...

But they aren't.

As it was, Jews were gone after for their ethnicity, not their religious beliefs. You could be an atheist Jew, and that wouldn't spare you.

This is a public memorial using public funds to help build it, which means it needs to be more thoughtful than if it were a private memorial done by some religious organization.

One could present the Holocaust as being about religious beliefs, but it really wasn't, it was about ideas of race. One could also present the Holocaust as a purely Jewish tragedy. Lord knows that is exactly how it has been portrayed in a lot of movies about WW2, and still, it's not a very good account of what the Holocaust was. Using a giant Star of David only serves to perpetuate these misconceptions of the Holocaust and downplays the suffering of others,or worse yet, totally ignores them, not to mention robs the viewer of some good present day lessons from history by giving short shrift to it.

It feels like the state giving preference to one group in exclusion of others as a result.