Growing Majority of State Capitols Will Have Christmas Nativity Scenes in December

A couple portrays Mary and Joseph during a live nativity scene in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 4, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

At least 31 of the nation’s 50 state capitols will have privately funded Christmas nativity scenes being displayed on their grounds during at least part of the holiday season, according to religious freedom lawyer Thomas Brejcha.

“The nativities are going up in more than half of the states and it’s based on a free-speech rationale that is very hard to defeat,” Brejcha, president of the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, told The Epoch Times on Nov. 20. “Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Illinois and Texas publicly said we were totally justified in doing so.”