What’s so controversial about a baby in a manger? Plenty, if you ask the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).

The group filed a lawsuit against the City of Green Bay over last year’s Christmas display with a nativity scene at City Hall.  But the Liberty Counsel has claimed victory for Green Bay this week.

"The federal court gave the City of Green Bay an early Christmas present,” said Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law. “Freedom From Religion Foundation is a radical organization that seeks to cleanse religion from America. The fact is that America has a rich religious history, and Nativity scene displays are consistently constitutional."

Judge William Griesbach dismissed the FFRF's case, stating that the group does not have standing to bring the claims, which he described as "so fleeting and slight that they do not warrant pursuing in federal court."

Atheists have erected a Christmas-bashing sign in the Washington state Capitol building – with the governor’s blessing.

Governor Chris Gregoire is allowing “Freedom from Religion Foundation,” an anti-faith hate group, to install the sign that reads, in part: “There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”