Christian symbols have a win in Italy

We read:

"The Vatican has welcomed as "historic" a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that said displaying crucifixes in schools in Italy does not breach the rights of non-Catholics.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled that displaying crucifixes in schools in Italy did not breach the rights of non-Catholic families, overturning a previous decision.

The Strasbourg, France-based court initially ruled in November 2009 that displaying crucifixes in schools across Italy breached the rights of non-Catholics, drawing howls of anger from Church and political leaders in the staunchly Roman Catholic country.

In its new ruling, passed by 15 votes to two, the court said: "While the crucifix was above all a religious symbol, there was no evidence before the court that the display of such a symbol on classroom walls might have an influence on pupils."

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The court may have realized that Italians would have defied a ban anyway. Italians are very attached to their statuary.

Instead of "statuary", I originally wrote "graven images" above. My fundamentalist Presbyterian background does show at times.

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).