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Dallas Nativity scene owner debate delays public return
A proposed transfer of Dallas’s 30 year Nativity display to auto shop owner John Beaty stalls after the Board of Aldermen delayed the decision until March. Beaty stores the scene at home after offering to permanently possess it, while critics fear loss of public display space amid legal pressure from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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