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CHRISTMAS WOULDN'T BE the same without the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, alias "The Grinch") waging its annual legal campaign to remove Nativity scenes or "creches" from Christmas displays. Numerous courtroom challenges and conflicting decisions have transformed the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment into a bewildering legal enigma. But the U.S. Supreme Court this year may substantially clarify the extent to which municipalities can promote the religious aspects of Christmas in the pending case of Lynch v Donnelly...
Mary school have not yet formulated a position on the new regulations and are waiting the outcome of the court case field in Minnesota by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Minnesota public interest Research Group (Minn. PIRG). The case challenges the constitutionality of the law on there courts...
...ACLU agrees that, first, the law punishes by legislation, not through the judicial process; second, the law focuses only on poor students who must apply for financial aid; and third, the law violates the constitutional guarantee of freedom against self-in-crimination because students are required to produce an acknowledgement letter from the Selective service verifying that they have registered, to obtain financial...
...blustering argument against First Amendment experts. Mayor Cianci has pointed out that in Providence a private organization has actually paid for the religious tableau standing before the city's headquarters. But this has not deterred local ACLU Executive Director Steven Brown, who stressed in an interview that "by providing a municipal site for the display, the government clearly projects a support for the beliefs symbolized," Brown added: "We are not seeking equal representation for other religions; we want to emphasize that no spiritual belief should be advertised with any official entanglement...
Despite the Massachusetts ACLU's stated indifference toward the case here, Cambridge should not be deterred either. Finding an Elks Club lodge or a nearby congregation to sponsor the Brattle Square creche would only go half way toward complying with the city's constitutional responsibility. Commenting on Cianci's maneuvering in Providence, Rhode Island Council of Churches President Richard Craig observed correctly that the church has no right "to muscle in on government property just to show that its influence is such that it can be done...