Alderman Asks Mayor To Remove Nativity


	Alderman Asks Mayor To Remove Nativity

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12-21-2007 9:57 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3a8d79ab-12f2-43e9-945f-4fda506f09f6/F16E43F6-D279-41E6-9027-118606C41FF7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/APC0101/712210626/1003/APC01" href="http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/APC0101/712210626/1003/APC01" style="font-size: 11px;">www.postcrescent.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/APC0101/712210626/1003/APC01">An alderman who helped install a controversial nativity scene on a City Hall ledge, but later changed tack, has asked Mayor Jim Schmitt to order the display removed.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/APC0101/712210626/1003/APC01"><P><FONT size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">City Council Vice President Chris Wery submitted a letter to the mayor's office asking that the display come down to help restore peace over the issue and to give the city the chance to avoid a lawsuit and develop a policy for future displays.
</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071221/APC0101/712210626/1003/APC01"><P><FONT size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"I am hopeful in the spirit of the season, should the display be removed, that all talk of lawsuits will end," Wery wrote. "Neither side wants to divide our community."
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