On
February 2nd, Christian supremacists on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of
Appeals -- Judges Amy J. St. Eve and Diane P. Wood -- put the nails in religious freedom's coffin when the Court ruled 2-1
that a nativity scene on the Jackson County Courthouse lawn did not
violate the Establishment Clause. The case is Woodring v. Jackson County, Indiana (7th Cir. February 2, 2021).
The court held that the HISTORY of Christianity in America was sufficient to ignore the First Amendment's Establishment Clause mandate that government may not prefer one religion over another or religion over nonbelief (McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)).
The court descended lower than the candy cane exception -- which balanced religious symbols (nativity scene) with secular symbols (candy canes) to make everything hundy-dory.
Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are squirming in their graves to see the principle of separation of religion and government run over by judges unfaithful to the Constitution. R.I.P.
