The Board of Education of School District No. 5 here today voted approval of the display of Nativity scenes in public schools within its jurisdiction. The resolution was passed by a 3-2 margin after another Hyde Park school board, District 2, voted to approve the removal of a Nativity scene from a high school in its area.
Denying that the Nativity scene is a religious symbol, Stephen P. Smolenski, counsel for the District 5 Board, said that the scene “depicts the greatest historical event in the last 2,000 years and is a legal holiday by government proclamation.”
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