A nativity scene is back in place in a Michigan park after it was taken down in a round of "politically correct" actions.
City leaders in Menominee removed it following complaints by atheists with the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Menominee City Manager Tony Graff said the display was taken down quickly after it was put up. The city attorney said that the display was a "violation of our own policy."
Liberty Counsel, the nonprofit litigation organization offered pro bono defense to reinstate the city's Christmas tradition of putting up the Nativity in the park.
Christmas Victory: Nativity Scene Returned to City Park!https://t.co/W0T1ApoT4a
— Liberty Counsel (@libertycounsel) December 16, 2016
Liberty Counsel responded and told the city manager to restore the Nativity scene and add secular items to the display, and the city has complied.
"Publically-sponsored Nativity scenes on public property are constitutional, especially when the display includes other secular symbols of the holiday," said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel.
"We commend Menominee city officials for their courage to heed our counsel and reinstate the Nativity to its rightful place. We stand by the city and will offer legal counsel to any city facing threats from the FFRF or other individuals," he added.
As the Christmas season is in full swing, Liberty Counsel launched its fourteenth annual Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign, which pledges to be a "Friend" to companies and organizations that recognize Christmas and a "Foe" to people that censor it.
The group educates, and sometimes litigates, to ensure that Christians and the Christmas season are not violated.
Liberty Counsel also provides a memorandum to give guidance on publicly and privately sponsored religious holiday displays, religious holidays in public schools, and rights of the students when it comes to religious holidays.
The group also put out a Naughty and Nice List to show which retailers and organizations censor Christmas and those who embrace it.
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