{"id":84547,"date":"2026-07-19T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84547"},"modified":"2026-07-19T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:32:55","slug":"supreme-court-showdown-looms-over-st-michael-statue-blocked-from-public-safety-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/supreme-court-showdown-looms-over-st-michael-statue-blocked-from-public-safety-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Showdown Looms Over St Michael Statue Blocked From Public Safety Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1200\/675\/St-Michael-statue.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\" alt=\"St-Michael-statue\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">A legal battle over whether\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/northeast\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_1\">a Massachusetts city<\/a>\u00a0can install statues of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian outside its public safety headquarters could ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court, with attorneys on both sides arguing the case could shape the future of religious displays on government property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\" data-layout-index=\"5\">The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/becketfund.org\/media\/city-of-quincy-massachusetts-asks-states-high-court-to-allow-statues-honoring-firefighters-and-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_2\">is representing<\/a>\u00a0the city of Quincy, told Fox News Digital that they are imminently expecting a decision by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_media_article_main-content_article-body_6_3\">the Massachusetts Supreme Court<\/a>.\u00a0&#8220;The ACLU\u2019s position is anti-art and anti-history and we\u2019re confident the justices will reject it,&#8221; Joseph Davis, senior counsel at Becket and lead attorney for Quincy, told Fox News Digital in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: A legal battle over whether\u00a0a Massachusetts city\u00a0can install statues of St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}