Atheist group wants memorial crosses removed | A lawsuit filed by the American Atheists in U.S. District Court on Thursday seeks to remove steel crosses that dot roadways throughout Utah and memorialize Utah Highway Patrol troopers who have died in the line of duty (The Salt Lake Tribune, Ut.)
Atheist group demands removal of memorials (Associated Press)
Church and state:
State to monitor church operations | Government will monitor the mushrooming numbers of churches in Zambia to ensure that they operate within the confines of the law (The Times of Zambia)
Air Force's interim religion guides expected to be revised | The U.S. Air Force's interim guidelines on religious expression, which have drawn sharp criticism from evangelical Christian groups and members of Congress alike, probably will be revised, said Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff (Stars and Stripes)
Car tag proposal won't be blessing | "God Bless America" plates are far more likely to be another needless, expensive legal battle caused by those who cannot or will not understand the necessity of keeping government neutral in matters of religion (Editorial, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.)
Indiana invocation ruling:
Ministers divided over federal court's prayer ruling | Even those who support decision would have preferred reaching a compromise out of court (The Indianapolis Star)
Judge has stirred controversy before | Experts divided on prayer ruling; prior decisions included abortion, DNA cases (The Indianapolis Star)
Some disinclined to give House prayer | Judge placed limits on Indiana practice (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
Religious tolerance takes a hit | Federal judge should not have made himself a censor of religious leaders' prayers (Editorial, The Indianapolis Star)
Making a mush of faith | Court rules that naming Christ is going out of bounds with official prayer (Bob Caylor, The News-Sentinel, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
December dilemma:
Some retailers give the word 'Christmas' a nod | The word "Christmas," nearly absent in marketing by major retailers in recent years, has been quietly revived by some stores (USA Today)
Do they know it's Christmas? They'd better | Nova Scotia town bans use of other names (The Globe and Mail, Toronto)
Unhappy with 'holiday' | Religious groups decry wording as 'war on Christmas' (The Baltimore Sun)
Christmas is our present to the rest of the world, says Archbishop | The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, spelt out the meaning of Christmas last night. "Christmas is the Christian's Christmas present to everybody else," he said. "Christmas, for a Christian, tells us why people matter" (The Times, London)
'Eat yuletide, you atheistic bastard!'| The Christmas wars in America (with a special appearance by Nova Scotia!) (Jonah Goldberg, National Review Online)
Let's get real; the ACLU isn't out to steal anyone's merry Christmas | It is these Web-site Christians who are taking Christ out of the season (Fran Quigley, The News-Sentinel, Ft. Wayne, Ind.)
ACLU should display religious tolerance | It is thoroughly repugnant when the ACLU legally supports hate mongers in their use of public property, while legally opposing both Christians and Jews doing likewise with Christmas and the Festival of Lights (Thomas E. Dennelly, Newsday)
And a 'Merry Pluralism' to all | There is no effort to ban Christmas (Bill Wineke, Wisconsin State Journal)
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