However, instead of drawing lines in the sand and pushing personal agendas, as I suspect the parties involved will currently be predisposed to doing, I have seen 2 very good ideas for solving this issue.
It will be a test as to if the parties involved are really interested in 'the children' or if they merely want to push religious symbols into the public sphere.
The Northwestern today had this solution:
Our city should explore the role of being a facilitator on the issue as an alternative. We called people at Mercy Medical Center and Aurora Medical Center to see whether either would be receptive to hosting the statue, as many medical centers have an Angel of Hope. Both local hospitals are very receptive to acting as host for the Christmas Box Angel statue.
Also, local commentator Robert Nordlander copied me on a letter to the editor he submitted with this solution:
A monument celebrating childhood could include Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher. That would be appropriate. It would celebrate life and leave the issue of angelic entities in the realm of the human imagination whence it sprang.
Lets hope that we can have an open, non-dogmatic dialog about this. There are reasonable solutions that follow the law.
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