School Should Use Common Sense in Christmas Program Debate

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David O'Hara was writing in response to a recent column in which I - inexplicably - referred to C.S. Lewis as a "cleric." But he didn't write to complain about my embarrassing error, but rather my suggestion that Lewis' notion of a two-tier marriage - civic and sacramental - might shed some light on the debate over same-sex marriage.

Both Lewis' 50-year-old essay and my application of it to the modern marriage controversy make "perfect sense," O'Hara said, in what was, intended or not, a perfect set-up line for what came next:

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School Should Use Common Sense in Christmas Program Debate

"How do you apply this kind of reasoning to the conundrum of Christmas carols and symbols in public schools, courthouses and other public spaces?"

He must have been reading about the New Jersey case in whic...

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