Word: che
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...highlights of the Christmas season is taking his wife and seven children to visit the Nativity scene in a downtown park. But in order to keep alive the family custom started by his grandfather, Lynch has had to form a private group to purchase the crèche from the city and take over the cost of maintaining it. A federal appeals court ruled last month that Pawtucket's city-funded crèche, and others like it, violate the First Amendment clause prohibiting the establishment of religion. It was the biggest victory to date for civil liberties groups...
...confrontations have focused on depictions of the Nativity. The government "may not participate in or promote the Christian celebration of Christmas," explained Judge Hugh Bownes in the Pawtucket case. "The crèche is purely a Christian religious symbol; this is the distinction between the crèche and Christmas as a holiday." Christmas trees, for example, are generally considered secular because of their origins in pagan rituals. Public school Christmas pageants have won court approval as long as the cultural significance outweighed the religious...
...American Civil Liberties Union, whose state affiliates have brought many of the legal challenges, stresses that it has no Grinch-like objection to Christmas. Says Glorian Schneider, head of the South Dakota A.C.L.U. and a vocal foe of the crèche at the capitol in Pierre: "People get the idea I'm a Communist. I have a Nativity scene in my home, and we have one in our church." Argued Attorney Jonathan Chase in an A.C.L.U.-backed federal suit against Denver: "It's not the city's business to keep Christ in Christmas. That...
...Christian Legal Society, adding that court attacks on Christmas scenes are "a trivialization of the Constitution." Henry Kinch, the current mayor of Pawtucket, agrees. "The A.C.L.U. wants to wring every bit of religion out of our daily life," he says. He will appeal the anti-crèche decision to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Kennedy's ten favorite books, eight were history and biography. He devoured the 407-page Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman in one evening. Eyeing China, J.F.K. called for two of Mao's books. Seeking insights into world trouble spots, he dug into Che Guevara's accounts of guerrilla...