A Christmas tradition: Battles over Christmas displays

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By Gail Sullivan December 24 at 6:14 AM


An angel ripped from a Satanic Temple display at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

It’s Christmas. You know what that means: the annual battle over public holiday displays.

In Florida, a woman was arrested yesterday for attacking the Satanic Temple’s diorama of an angel falling into a pit of fire on display in the Florida Capitol rotunda. Susan Hemeryck, 54, was charged with criminal mischief, the Associated Press reported. She told a police officer “she was sorry and had to take the satanic display.” She “reached forward and began to rip apart the display,” according to the affidavit.

“The angel’s dead,” John Porgal, regional director of American Atheists, said when he arrived to find the figurine lying on a table.

Pam Olsen, who organized the Christian displays, told the Associated Press that she doesn’t approve of vandalism: “I do not like the display. I think it’s rude and it’s sad that he put it up to protest the Nativity that means so much to millions of people; however, I don’t think anyone should ever vandalize anything. Free speech is free speech whether we like it or not.”

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1. That's funny.

I thought Americans held property/possessions as sacred.