The ACLU is asking Mayor Thomas Koch and Quincy City Council to cancel plans for statues of saints outside a new public ...

Numerous Confederate statues, monuments ... these were put out in public squares and in front of state buildings. There was another surge of Confederacy tribute years later as an outraged backlash ...

The Feb. 24 letter also argues that “placing larger-than-life statues of Catholic saints in front of a public building unequivocally advances one religion to the exclusion of all others.” ...