David French: Christmas skirmishes and the offended observer

ADF Attorney David French writing at National Review Online / Bench Memos: “[L]et’s not forget that the secular Left created an entire litigation engine out the ‘offended observer.’ When religious symbols are taken from public land, those cases are launched through a unique standing rule that allows a person who’s merely offended at the sight of a religious symbol to literally make a federal case out of their fit of pique. As a general rule, we do not enjoy a right not to be offended (and it’s a good thing too; imagine a world where every perceived slight could launch litigation) — except when it comes to public religious displays.”