THE CHURCH-STATE HOLIDAY ISSUE
(Saturday) Terry Mattingly has a quick survey of the issue this week.

J. Brent Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs in Washington, asks the best question.

"Why not just put Nativity scenes on the front lawns of every single church in town?," he asked. "Why do people think they need to get the government involved, which shoves things into a constitutional zone where you have to start counting the number of reindeer and Santas around your Nativity scene so that everybody knows you're trying to be neutral? Why don't our churches just get together and handle this?"