Get ready folks, the Christmas season is about to begin.
According to a WTOP report, Loudoun County is bracing for a holiday display that is inevitably going to offend someone. At a cost to the taxpayers of $3,400 the county will offer a holiday display outside the local courthouse that is representative of the Christian, and Jewish religions, and an atheist group.
Last year, a peculiar display of a skeleton Santa Clause hanging from a cross was just too much for some people to handle. The display was defaced, and ultimately taken down after severe adverse public reaction.
It’s unknown whether the skeleton will be coming back this time around.
My take: I’m more puzzled about the odd looking skeleton Santa Clause than anything else. Is it meant to be anti-Christmas or anti-Christmas? Or maybe it could be a statement lamenting an apparent decline in Christian influence on American public life? Whatever the reasoning behind the display, it is not obvious what message the display is trying to convey. So how can that be offensive?
My Two Cents: During Christmas, it seems like it’s almost impossible to offend someone. Local governments need to just man up and do one of two things. Either honor the Christmas holiday by allowing religiously appropriate displays and put up with a lawsuit from some curmudgeon atheist group, or don’t display anything at all. Trying to make everyone happy with this multi-display stuff is really starting to get out of hand.
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