It turns out that if you allow some people to have a display on the courthouse lawn, you have to allow everyone an equal chance at having a display. One person chose for his display Santa Claus on a cross. Outrageous! A concerned citizen removed it.
Loudoun Board Decides Against Banning Public Holiday Displays Including Skeleton SantaLEESBURG, Va. (WUSA) - Four members of the Loudoun county board of supervisors wanted to suspend the rules that allow public holiday displays like the crucified skeleton Santa that offended many residents. On Monday, Mary Czarnecki, a local grandmother found the approved display so offensive she took it down.
"It was predictable, it was easy to see coming. The Ku Klux Klan has put up crosses under this rubric of freedom of speech, and I shudder to think that we might get to that point," said Dulles Supervisor Stevens Miller. He proposed to suspend the rules for the displays, which would have banned them all this year, leaving up only a donated Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn. But it would have meant no nativity scene this year. The proposal failed 5-4.
"This is in keeping with the attack on religion rooted in the Leesburg courthouse. The atttack on the nativity is a year-round pursuit now among anti-religious zealots," said Sterling Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio.
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