tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16851117786910046612011-04-21T10:47:33.529-07:00charlnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1685111778691004661.post-60562188153351809942007-05-06T21:11:00.000-07:002007-05-06T21:18:40.977-07:00From <a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/070506" rel="nofollow">renewamerica</a><br /><br />Romney: Mitt Romney, aka Mormon Mitt and Mitt the Mormon, Republican presidential hopeful, former Governor of Massachusetts and winner of the first debate of the declared Republican presidential aspirants.<br /><br />Reindeer: any of several large deer that have palmate antlers, best known generally for pulling Santa's sleigh on Christmas Eve and, by constitutional lawyers, for inspiring the "reindeer test."<br /><br />"Reindeer test": name given to the United States Supreme Court procedure for determining whether a Christmas display on public policy is constitutionally permissible (a free-standing creche is forbidden but if secular figures, like reindeer, accompany the creche, the scene is treated as sufficiently secular to permit the creche to stay).<br /><br />Religion: "the duty owed to God," as James Madison, Father of the Constitution, tersely put it.<br /><br />Proponent of constitutional fidelity and judicial restraint and Judicial Confirmation Network legal counsel Wendy Long has judged the "reindeer test" to be "silly."<br /><br />Now that's restraint!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/070506" rel="nofollow">more</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1685111778691004661-6056218815335180994?l=godandcon.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>charlnoreply@blogger.com0