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W.Va. city's Xmas scene has no Jesus
By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 1, 6:31 PM ET
ST. ALBANS, W.Va. - Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town.
The community's holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding
star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph.
The parks superintendent said Jesus was left out because of concerns about
the separation of church and state. But Mayor ***** Callaway said it was
done for purely technical reasons: "It's not easy to put a light-up
representation of a baby in a small manger scene, you know."
In recent years, some communities around the country have dropped nativity
scenes after the displays were challenged as unconstitutional. Some
communities have tried to head off legal problems by incorporating
nonreligious symbols, or symbols of more than one faith, to avoid the
appearance of endorsing one religion over another.
David Cunningham, parks superintendent in this town of 11,000, initially
insisted St. Albans' display was not even technically a manger scene
because he was concerned about possible lawsuits. But the mayor said such
anxieties were unwarranted.
"We have a manger scene," the mayor said.
Around the country, only a few skirmishes in what some conservatives have
called the "War on Christmas" have been reported this year so far.
Some retailers, including Wal-Mart, have returned to greeting customers
with "Merry Christmas" after coming under attack last year for saying
"Happy Holidays."
Two weeks ago, the Marine Reserves Toys for Tots program in Los Angeles
overcame concerns about accepting a donation of 4,000 talking Jesus dolls
that quote Bible verses by promising to make sure the dolls reach
Christian children.
Some people are still scratching their heads over what happened in
Chicago, where the movie studio behind "The Nativity Story" was dropped as
a sponsor of a Christmas festival for fear of offending non-Christians.
In Wheeling, baby Jesus is represented in a manger scene at Olgebay Park's
Winter Festival of Lights, which draws visitors from across the country.
"If anything, we get criticized for not having more examples of that type
of thing," said J.C. Douglas Dalby, president of the Wheeling Park
Commission.
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