Stealing Christmas

National | COURTS: The holiday season is lawsuit season for secularist grinches; religious-liberties groups fight for displays, and offer tips | Edward E. Plowman

How's that again? Holiday displays of the Jewish menorah and Islam's star and crescent are allowed in the some 1,200 public schools in New York City, but the creche, or nativity display, is not?

Not any longer if the Thomas More Law Center can help it. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Catholic civil-liberties group filed a lawsuit a year ago against the school system and several school officials. It acted on behalf of Andrea Skoros of Queens and her two elementary-school-age children upset at the policy banning the Christian symbol. The suit doesn't seek to prohibit the Jewish and Muslim exhibits, but to end discrimination against Christianity.

The case finally came before federal court in Brooklyn in mid-November for an initial hearing. The law center's Robert Muise, 38, an ex-Marine turned lawyer, asked Judge Charles P. Sifton to issue a preliminary injunction against the creche ban pending final judgment.

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November 29, 2003, Vol. 18, No. 46

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