Lawsuit filed against my hometown due to county judge’s discrimination.

My hometown has been pulling some shenanigans for the last year.  I’ll try to catch you up quickly.

Last year in my home town the local freethinkers asked to put up their own holiday display next to the nativity (which is on the courthouse lawn, as it is every year) – a banner reading “Happy Winter Solstice.”  They were denied.  Specifically, County Judge Mickey Pendergrass told them that even though it was nowhere in the city’s laws or regulations, no banners were allowed on the courthouse lawn.

Then, a couple weeks later, look what wound up on the courthouse lawn:

Oh that? That’s not a banner…it’s a message blanket.

It reads “do you have an hour of your time? MENTORING PROGRAM”.  Several other banners have been placed on the courthouse lawn over the last year.  So when County Judge Pendergrass said “no banners”, what he meant was no banners for those wishing people a happy something that isn’t Christmas.