Three billboards protesting the Nativity scene at the Denver City and County Building will go up within the next few days and will remain up for four weeks, according to the Colorado Coalition of Reason.
“The Nativity scene is a religious icon and it’s on public property,” said Marvin Straus, who is spearheading the billboard campaign for COCORE.
In September 1986, following a fierce seven-year court battle, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that there was nothing unconstitutional about Denver’s display of life-size figures of Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus on the steps of the Denver City and County Building.
The first of the billboards, on Speer Boulevard, will go up Monday. The second two will go up Dec. 13. They will be at Stout and 20th streets and Welton and 22nd streets, according to Straus.
