Another skirmish in the Christmas Wars: the Sixth Circuit has decided that a county’s denial of a permit to erect a creche on public property violated the Free Speech Clause. For decades, a fami… more →
CENTER FOR LAW AND RELIGION FORUMwrote 6 months ago: was christmas always a competitive sport? okay so the whole lights thing i guess started with clark … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Okay, here’s what happened. It’s the third of December and I am already aggravated at th … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Another skirmish in the Christmas Wars: the Sixth Circuit has decided that a county’s denial o … more →
wrote 1 year ago: First, let us all breathe a collective sigh of relief. We have survived another Christmas, my frien … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Welcome the Christ-child Jesus stood up to read… “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because h … more →
wrote 1 year ago: A story out of Pitman, New Jersey. It seems that a local chapter of the Knights of Columbus has hun … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I thought that by moving to India (btw, I moved to India) I might escape some of the ridiculousness … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Or puoi, figliuol, veder la corta buffa d’i ben che son commessi a la fortuna, per che l’umana gente … more →
wrote 1 year ago: From the UK, a news report about a different kind of Christmas War: Father’s finger bitten off … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Christmas Cartoon by John Trever, Albuquerque Journal Every year about this time, the stories start … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The Christmas Wars are really heating up, and December’s only just started. From Rhode Island, … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the pleasures of doing a website on law and religion is that the topic of church and state co … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The embattled governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, has announced that the tree decorated with bauble … more →
wrote 2 years ago: A Catholic nun with a gambling habit (no pun intended) pled not guilty to accusations that she embez … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Growing up, I was blessed with parents who taught me the differences between the three Christmases. … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Every year I say the same thing. Can we just get through Christmas without all the fighting? But no. … more →
wrote 4 years ago: I am not typically a holiday person. My socially phobic nature would have me out of costume at Hallo … more →
wrote 5 years ago: I wrote previously about our Christmas Wars with the Christian cleaners who clean our house. Since w … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Let me begin by saying that I am not some hyper-sensitive cry-wolf kind of person. But a clear case … more →