Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday known as the festival of lights. Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was a Jewish American poet and activist who used the image of America as a light to …
Christmas is a national U.S. holiday. Christians celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas Eve 1968– The crew of Apollo 8 read in turn from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the moon. Madalyn Murray O’Hair, founder of American Atheists, responded by suing the US government, alleging violations of the First Amendment. …
The case arose when a gay couple approached Jack Phillips, who is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, which is a bakery, and asked him to design and bake a cake for their wedding. He declined, saying that as a conservative Christian, he had religious convictions against same-sex marriage and he didn’t want to participate in …