re: #108 traderjoe9
Well actually I do know some Jews who feel “unsettled” or unhappy when they see Christmas trees, and the like (my first ex-wife was like that) but that doesn’t really change anything. For hundreds of years it was “acceptable” that a town or village or NYC (see,e.g. Rockefeller Center) would put up Christmas trees to celebrate the Holiday of Christmas. The issue of whether or not it was proper to do so, or legally permissible to do so, on public land (see, e.g., NOT Rockefeller Center!) is relatively new. And it has pissed off a lot of folks who don’t want to see their particular “celebrations” disallowed in their heretofore allowed places.
Nonetheless, the Constitution is the Constitution and the “advocating” of one religion over another is prohibited thereunder. Thus the no teaching of any religion in Public Schools. I do think things have sorta gotten out of hand insofar as Christmas trees go, but not with the teaching of ID in science classes in Public School.