Twenty-nine residents of nearby Ossining went to court today in a second attempt to bar a nativity scene from school grounds at the Ossining High School. The residents claim, in a suit in the State Supreme Court, that erection of a creche during the Christman season violates the principle of separation of church and state.
Last December, a judge of the same court ruled against the petitioners on the grounds that the constitutional prohibition does not insist that “every vestige of the existence of God to be eradicated.” Today’s suit is being heard by another judge.
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