Friday, October 18, 2013

Deerfield Beach is wrestling with religious holiday displays - Sun Sentinel

Chaz Stevens, two-time High Noon in Lake Worth guest, is mentioned in this article about Deerfield Beach's holiday displays on city land. It seems to me that they are still trying to straddle the issue rather than address it. Here is where Chaz and his Festivus pole are mentioned in the article. Click title for link.
Last December in Deerfield, resident and blogger Chaz Stevens asked for and received permission to erect an 8-foot tall aluminum pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans.
It was a "Festivus" pole, the symbol of a secular, fictional holiday celebrated in December and created on the television show "Seinfeld."
He put it outside Fire Station No. 1, right next to the Nativity.
It was his way of standing up for the separation of church and state, he said, since the city hadn't responded to requests to take down the Nativity.
"If you can't beat them, join them," he said. "I fought stupidity with stupidity."