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  • MANGER WARS --ACLU lawsuits helped create the Christian Right

    12/23/2004 6:33:50 AM PST · by OESY · 6 replies · 680+ views
    New York Post ^ | December 23, 2004 | COLLIN LEVEY
    Suing the jingle bells off everyone this side of the North Pole has tradition ally been the ACLU's favorite form of seasonal joy.... The civil-liberties group hasn't lost its passion for secularism, but this year's litigation news is being made by a different group of plaintiffs.... An ACLU legal bulletin claims that Supreme Court doctrine on the Establishment Clause forbids not only state practices that "aid one religion . . . or prefer one religion over another," but also those practices that "aid all religions" and thus endorse or prefer religion over nonreligion." That dubious reading has found some support...