Community members in favor of keeping a Nativity scene in Concord High School’s annual Christmas program are selling T-shirts that defend the religious portion of the holiday concert. The shirts were created after The Elkhart Truth reported that the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation had written a letter to the Concord Community Schools Superintendent calling the Nativity portion of the performance “illegal” and “inappropriate” and threatening legal action if it wasn't removed from this year's show. The foundation stepped in when a Concord resident filed a complaint about the live Nativity scene, in which students dress up as Joseph, Mary and the wise men while a biblical account of Jesus Christ’s birth is read by a narrator. About 200 shirts were for sale Saturday, at Bullard Farms Market. Organizers plan to continue selling shirts and yard signs at Elkhart Satellite on U.S. 33.
