Proving Ownership of The Blooming Grove Report In The Dumbest Way Possible

We have an old law from the 1990s to thank for confirming the publisher of The Blooming Grove Report. Can you guess which one?

Upon discovering the existence of The Blooming Grove Report — thanks to one of our Monroe Gazette readers — I reached out to the NYC American Civil Liberties Union (NYCACLU), the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), and Americans United for the Separation of the Church of State(AU), the Anti-Defamation League, People for the American Way, and the Church of Satan.

🎶 One of these things is not like the other … 🎶

The Anti-Defamation League wrote me back to acknowledge getting the email, but then I never heard from them again. That’s too bad. The ADL were huge supporters of the Separation of Church and State. So much so, that they participated in the Supreme Court case against Kiryas Joel in 1994. The ADL sided with Louis Grumet, former Executive Direction of the New York State School Boards Association, saying that the Kiryas Joel school district is a violation of the federal constitution’s establishment clause.

Grumet and the ADL were right then, and they were right now. Something t…