Here’s to all the Americans on both sides of this year’s unusually peppy fights over the allowability of religious symbols on public property. This annual battle, in which the ACLU strives once more to make itself as popular as the Grinch, is over the part of the First Amendment that says the government cannot sponsor religion. I always liked what Ann Richards said when informed there were demands that the large star on top of the state capitol come down. “Oh, I’d hate to see that happen,” she drawled. ‘This could be the only chance we’ll ever have to get three wise men in that building.
December 25, 2004 6:30 PM
