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New York ban on church use of space in schools upheld

For some years now, a number of religious congregations in New York City that were short of worship space have taken advantage of unoccupied public school buildings, and paid a fee to use such space for their services. Other community groups and organizations do similar things. A win-win, you would think. However, the City of New York has long been suing to prevent churches—and only the churches, mind you—from utilizing public school space in this way. Something to do, I guess, with the terrible danger to innocent kids of merely knowing that the space they’re sitting in might have been occupied the evening before by a person who professes belief in God. [Read more →]

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From section: Commentary, New York interest, News by Sean Curnyn

Steps and Missteps: Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry

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So, Newt Gingrich, in an interview with ABC News, asserted that he is “going to be the nominee.” It was probably true until he said it. This is “bad Newt:” way too much in love with his own cleverness for his own good. Sure: an outside observer could well look at the current match-up and say that it’s Newt’s race to lose, if everyone continues on form. But by flashing his cockiness, Newt is not continuing on form. He hasn’t come across cocky in the debates, but instead earnest and positive. His claim that he will be the nominee came by way of explaining why he isn’t going to switch to negative attacks on his fellow Republicans: their style of doing so has failed for them, while his style of being positive and substantive, and focusing on Obama, has worked. He didn’t need to explain it in these “inside baseball” terms. He ought just to have asserted that he was going to stick to his approach, without including the arrogant assertion that he was going to win. It is also, by the way, a foolish confidence to have. The momentum of a nomination race can change with the results of one primary. No one is in a position on December 1st of 2011 to assert that they will have the delegates come summer of 2012. Again, bad Newt. [Read more →]

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From section: 2012 CAMPAIGN, Commentary, Politics by Sean Curnyn

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