Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This issue would not be so important in the houses if it weren't such an important constitutional issue for our nation. Like the Winthrop House Committee, the U.S. Supreme Court has increasingly moved in the direction of identifying what previously were considered religious symbols as secular and cultural...
...result? The local creche turned into a ridiculous spectacle: a nativity scene dwarfed by an adjacent sign twice its size acclaiming the secular nature of government...
...Court further narrowed its definition of religious symbols in ACLU v. Allegheny County. Again ruling on a creche, the nation's highest court invoked what would later become known as the "reindeer test," holding that as long as a nativity scene included reindeer--associating it with the "secular" and "cultural" figure of Santa Claus--the scene could also be considered secular and cultural...
...students while funding a hundred-dollar Christmas tree. When asked for explanation, the newly elected committee co-chair, Kristen Galanek, said the committee made a distinction between the Hanukkah party, which "had the explicit purpose of being a religious party," and the Christmas tree, which was "kind of secular" and had "no religious element about...
...Winthrop House Committee wants to fund only secular social events in their House, it is within their purview to do so--although refusing to give aid to the wealth of religious expression on campus makes that decision open to question. However, the real problem is the characterization of the Christmas tree as "secular." The tree that is in the dining hall of Winthrop House is not a "holiday tree" or a "winter tree" or even a "secret elf tree." It is a Christmas tree, plain and simple. The particular image that the tree inspires for non-Christians...