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Representatives from local churches and neighborhood groups told the three-member commission that Ruggles Pizza and Grendel's Den should not be allowed to serve liquor, arguing that the 39 establishments already selling liquor in the Square adequately satisfy public demand...
...case began when the Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church in Harvard Square decided not to let Grendel's, a local restaurant within 500 feet of the church, obtain a liquor license. The church did not explain why it was only challenging Grendel's, when 26 other restaurants within the legal radius also served alcohol. It also did not explain why Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics should wield such power over Cambridge's non-Armenian Catholics...
RAISE A TOAST to Grendel's! The earthy Harvard Square eaterie this week won the right to serve alcohol regardless of opposition from neighborhood clergymen. Pouncing on a failure to separate church from state, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a Massachusetts law which allows churches to veto liquor licenses for establishments within 500 feet of an altar...
Just around the corner from Grendel's, however, stands another example of municipal entanglement in religion that has received less attention than the restaurant ban, but which nonetheless should raise doubts in the minds of gift hunters hustling past it on their way to a merry holiday...
...long as anyone can remember, the city of Cambridge this month assembled a quaint wooden Nativity scene on the Brattle Square traffic island. Though most unassuming, the tiny plastic animals, pilgrim kings and baby Jesus violate the same constitutional principle raised when Grendel's had its day before the high court...