Has the Grinch Stolen Santa Monica’s Nativity Scenes?

Complaints about over-regulation led Santa Monica to be called “The People’s Republic,” although it’s too prosperous to deserve the label. Now it might lose another designation: “The City of the Christmas Story.” This year, Atheists forced a lottery for spaces in Palisades Park, where life-sized nativity scenes have been displayed for almost 60 years.

So, Santa Monica held a lottery. Out of 21 possible spaces, the Atheists won 18 and the Christians just 3. One other space went to Jews to put up a Menora. How have Christians reacted? Hunter Jameson is chair of the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee, composed of 13 churches and the Santa Monica Police Officers Association…