Confusion continues regarding holiday displays that involve the government, however indirectly. In December 1995, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey, ruled that adding Frosty the Snowman and Santa with a sleigh to a nativity scene, a Christmas tree, and a menorah makes a city’s holiday display legal. Judge Dickinson Debevoise said that “ installing these symbols sufficiently demystified the holy” (Leavitt 1995:A3). Sociologists would regard these as efforts to make a legal distinction between what Durkheim called the sacred and the secular. At the heart of the conflict are the constitutional provisions of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” What do you think of the controversy surrounding the sacred and the secular?