High Court Declines to Hear Nativity Ban Dispute
ABP reports on the Supreme Court's decision not to review a holiday display case:
A year after a New York City mother's appeal, the Supreme Court declined Feb. 20 to review a policy banning nativity scenes but allowing other holiday-season displays in the nation's largest public school district.
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Some conservative Christian activists had hoped the Supreme Court would agree to hear the case. It would have given the justices their first opportunity to render a decision on governmental religious displays since Justice Samuel Alito replaced retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. O'Connor generally ruled in opposition to governmental religious displays, while Alito's record as an appeals-court judge and previous legal posts suggest he may be open to a looser interpretation of the First Amendment's ban on government endorsement of religion.