Best excuse for Excluding Jesus from Christmas
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 Dick 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."
Since they chose to have a manger scene, what possible significance could there be to exclude the three main players? As far as I know, camels and palm trees are not indigenous to St. Albans. And what was the "guiding star" actually guiding?