Here's something else that I thought was highly insightful. As I said, at Christmas time the churches and the OP government set up and maintain all those Christmas displays that drove the ACLU nuts at city hall. But last month, city hall was the site of a big weekend Fall Festival, and they were playing up the halloween, devil, evil things motifs quite a bit. They were also selling beer at the concession stands.
A reporter for the Florida Times Union thought it would be a cool thing to go talk to some church leaders and get their take on city hall being used to "promote" drinking and halloween. The response from the church leaders was about unanimous in that they all pretty much said that city hall property belongs to everyone in the town, and everyone should be allowed to use it as long as what they're doing isn't illegal, dangerous, obscene, etc. I read those statements and I was like Wow! What a concept! Rather than deny access to everyone, provide access to everyone. Rather than deny access or use of public property out of fear that a few folks might get offended, allow everyone to use them and that way everyone gets equally offended. I think that at one time in our distant past, this "new" concept was called freedom to practice religion, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, or something like that. It's just been so long since I've actually seen the average folks get to really enjoy those rights that my memory is a bit hazy.
