The Supreme Court’s “reindeer rule”

The Supreme Court’s “reindeer rule”

Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over nativity scenes. Specifically, communities across the country have battled and are battling over whether depictions of the biblical story of Jesus Christ’s birth belong in seasonal displays on public land. This crèche conflict continues despite two Supreme Court r…