Christmas came under sharp scrutiny last week at the U.S. Supreme Court, and some groups got coal in their stockings. In a ruling that confused more Americans than it enlightened, the Justices held that the annual display of a Jewish Hanukkah menorah next to a Christmas tree outside Pittsburgh's City- County building was constitutional; yet in the same decision, they concluded that a Catholic-sponsored creche depicting the Nativity in the county courthouse one block away was not. The tenuous principle governing the decision seemed to be the so-called reindeer rule, suggested in 1984 by the court's decision that a government-owned creche...
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