COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting a pair of crosses displayed for Easter on an Ohio village’s municipal building.
The Wisconsin-based group has challenged the claim by the mayor of Stratton that it’s constitutional to display the crosses during holidays.
Mayor John Abdalla temporarily removed the crosses in January after the foundation threatened to sue, but he returned them to celebrate the Easter season. One of the crosses is Latin and the other Eastern Orthodox.
Abdalla told the Steubenville Herald-Star that such seasonal displays are permissible and that he planned to remove them at the end of April. Easter is this Sunday.
