Jay Wexler, a professor of law at Boston University School of Law, humorist and novelist, takes readers on a church-state road trip with his book, "Our Non-Christian Nation: How Atheists, Satanists, Pagans, and Others Are Demanding Their Rightful Place in Public Life."

A seven-foot-tall statue of a goat-headed deity known as Baphomet was displayed temporarily at the capitol grounds in Little Rock, Ark., in late August to protest a permanent Ten Commandments monument located there.

It’s the first day of December, which normally means it would be time to gin things up on the “War on Christmas,” but, to be perfectly honest, I’m having some trouble mustering much enthusiasm this year.

I’m not the only one. The Religious Right seems to be losing interest as well.