Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lies contained in the grossly unjust generalizations of the outspoken critics of the club system have angered and hurt final club members such as myself. We would have hoped that fellow Harvard students would display a little more broadmindedness and maturity in attacking something they consider wrong. Rather, we have seen moralistic club-bashing that is barely worthy of response...
...Appeals halted a seven-year custom in downtown Pittsburgh. The seasonal Nativity scene, erected by the Holy Name Society of the Pittsburgh diocese, was barred from the Allegheny County courthouse, where it had adorned the grand staircase of the building's rotunda. Also banned was an 18-ft. menorah displayed a block away at the front of the City-County building and sponsored by Chabad, the national organization of Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews. "The city viewed the display as a nice gesture consistent with the holiday spirit," laments George Specter, one of Pittsburgh's attorneys. But last week the Supreme Court...
...Pittsburgh dispute invites the high bench to revisit one of its most controversial and opaque rulings. In a 1984 case from Pawtucket, R.I., the Justices upheld the constitutionality of a town-supported creche in a display that included reindeer, Santa's house and candy-striped poles, saying the overall tableau had a "secular purpose" and "effect." Ever since, lower courts have struggled to apply what has come to be ridiculed as the "reindeer rule." At issue: how much secular camouflage is required to sneak a publicly sponsored Nativity scene past the First Amendment bar on an "establishment of religion...
...lower courts have been schizophrenic on the issue," says Colleen O'Connor of the A.C.L.U. So far, three federal appellate panels have held that creches not "subsumed by a larger display" of secular items are not permissible at city hall. But another federal court ruled that a creche can stand alone on land deemed to be a "public forum." In Chicago last month, a judge decided that no more than three religious symbols at a time may be exhibited at the Daley Center Plaza, and for no longer than 14 days. Complains Allegheny County attorney George Janocsko: "The cases...
...Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky of Chabad. "Putting up menorahs is a sharing of values with others." Beyond Pittsburgh, his 100,000-member organization has been building menorahs from Washington's Ellipse to San Francisco's Union Square, almost anywhere a reindeer might be lurking. But most Jewish groups oppose the displays. Says Sam Rabinove, legal director of the American Jewish Committee: "We're all in favor of menorahs and creches, but not in public buildings." Mainstream Christian groups agree. "We consider the display of a Christian religious symbol by a municipality to be an affront to persons of other faiths...