First is the Weatherford Winter Solstice sign. Second is the Grand Prairie atheist book covers. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Winter Solstice sign, the Parker County courthouse allows a nativity scene to be put up on the lawn every Christmas. Dick Hogan tried to get the nativity scene removed. Instead of removing the nativity scene, the judge decided to make the courthouse lawn an open forum.
Any organization can put up a display on the courthouse lawn, as long as a permit has been awarded.
So, we had to do something for the first open forum season in December, 1998. The placing of the Winter Solstice sign has become a tradition for Metroplex Atheists during our Winter Solstice party. I encourage each one of you to come out to Dick Hogan's party barn for this year's Winter Solstice party. The second equal access project we've undertaken is the grand prairie ISD atheist book covers. At the beginning of last year's school year, a Christian woman by the name of Karen Weigman bought some Ten Commandment book covers from the Family Research Council and began handing them out to students as they entered into the schools.