Christian history was made Tuesday as a Nativity scene was displayed at the U.S. Capitol for the first time.

The event on the southeastern steps was the result of a federal court ruling in May that said the Capitol steps were a public area, meaning that public expressions of faith could no more be banned than other forms of public expression, according to the Christian Post.

Rev. Patrick Mahoney, who went to court in 2022 to allow a religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ on Capitol grounds, said in his lawsuit that “the ‘People’s House,’ as the U.S. Capitol Building is so rightly called, must be a place where all Americans are afforded the right to come and peacefully celebrate and express their First Amendment rights.”

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