Just in time for the holidays, the perennial debate over church and state has returned to the state Capitol.
Breaking with his Republican predecessor, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Friday declared the coniferous fixture to annually grace the Capitol rotunda a “holiday tree.” Gov. Scott Walker called it a “Christmas tree.”
And in a seemingly opposite declaration of their own, Assembly Republicans on Tuesday are set to proclaim the week of Thanksgiving as “National Bible Week,” a move that has already irritated proponents of secularism.