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...their knockabout revue Good Evening, which ran almost continuously for five years, they constructed an imaginary restaurant buried deep in the Yorkshire moors. It was called the Frog and the Peach, and there were only two entrées on the menu: Frog à la pêche and Pêche à la frog...
Must the public exhibit of the Christmas crèche be interpreted as an attempt by the Government to establish religion [Dec. 20]? If civil libertarians succeed in stripping all public displays of their religious connotation, they will have trivialized a once richly symbolic feast...
...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...
...other local officials have settled instead for allowing private groups to set up crèches on government property. Such displays are now often accompanied by signs disclaiming any direct city role. Although the A.C.L.U. in Rhode Island last week decided to bring suit against one such crèche in Providence, other A.C.L.U. affiliates believe that the use of private funds eliminates the constitutional problem. "As long as public land is available to everyone and no public funds are used, we think religious displays are fine," says John Roberts, executive director of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union...