Friday, December 11, 2009

Tenn. City Drops Bible Text Reading At Tree-Lighting Ceremony

MARYVILLE, TENN. -- Acknowledging it is "terrifying to stand and go against the courts," Samuel David Duck, a Maryville resident and father of two, did what city officials had decided not to do.

He read an account of the birth of Jesus Christ from the Bible at the city's tree-lighting celebration Monday night at the Greenbelt.

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