Just reported from the Associated Press:
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in Washington, DC this 2006 Christmas season.
This isn’t for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find three wise men or a virgin in the Nation’s capitol.
There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
Merry Christmas!!
(TMV thanks The Moderate Father Richard Gandelman for the email)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.