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Christmas banning thread of 2006

Postby Class316 on Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:57 pm

It's been a tradition, here's a start:

NYC bans Christmas displays, allows Jewish and Muslim displays

In a dispute over display of holiday symbols, New York City schools are allowing Jewish menorahs and Islamic crescents but barring Christian nativity scenes, alleging the depiction of the birth of Christ does not represent a historical event.

In pleadings with a federal court in defense of the ban, New York City lawyers asserted the "suggestion that a cr裨e is a historically accurate representation of an event with secular significance is wholly disingenuous."

The Jewish and Islamic symbols are allowed, the district says, because they have a secular dimension, but the Christian symbols are "purely religious."

Robert J. Muise, who will challenge the school policy at a federal court hearing tomorrow in Brooklyn, told WorldNetDaily be believes most Americans don't see it that way.

"The birth of Jesus is a historical event which serves as the basis for celebration of Christmas," Muise stated. "It's of importance for both Christians and non-Christians."


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=35544

Supreme Court won't review NYC Xmas ban

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review an appeals court decision upholding New York City's ban on Nativity scenes in public schools.

Some parents argued the ban is unfair because displays of Muslim and Jewish symbols are allowed, Scotusblog.com reported.

In recent years, the court has found that government entities can only display Christian symbols at Christmas if they are part of a display that includes neutral symbols like Santa Claus or symbols of other religions.


http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/2006 ... -1559r.htm

Somebody tell me how a Menorah or a Muslim moon qualifies as "historical" :evil:
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Postby Class316 on Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:30 pm

'Nativity' Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair

CHICAGO - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.

New Line Cinema, which said it was dropped, had planned to play a loop of the new film on televisions at the event. The decision had both the studio and a prominent Christian group shaking their heads.

"The last time I checked, the first six letters of Christmas still spell out Christ," said Paul Braoudakis, spokesman for the Barrington, Ill.-based Willow Creek Association, a group of more than 11,000 churches of various denominations. "It's tantamount to celebrating Lincoln's birthday without talking about Abraham Lincoln."


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Postby Silverhaze on Thu Nov 30, 2006 2:13 pm

Luckily we seem to be avoiding this pathetic paranoia over here. Either that or its just not being reported.

Shocking!!

Worst thing about it is that its rarely the minorities that have the problem. Its paranoid white people so scared of offending a minority they would rather upset the majority instead!
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Postby Class316 on Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:53 pm

Vienna in an uproar over St. Nick ban

VIENNA, Austria -- St. Nick, nein! A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots.

And it's creating a political ruckus, with opposition parties accusing City Hall of kowtowing to a growing Muslim population by showing Europe's Santa the kindergarten door.

Municipal officials insist their decision is prompted more by psychology than political correctness.


http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/reli ... 30.article

Vienna authorities backtrack on Santa ban

Vienna­ After a huge public outcry Vienna's education authorities backtracked Thursday on banning St Nikolaus, a local version of Santa Claus, from visiting the city's kindergartens for fears that his appearance would scare the children. Earlier this week the office of Vienna's education councillor Grete Laska announced that Nikolaus was not welcome any more, as his appearance would traumatise children.


Massive protests and public ridicule followed the decision until on Thursday Laska backtracked and said the ban was off. "There will be Nikolaus celebrations in the kindergarten," she told local newspaper Oesterreich.


http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Vienna_au ... 02006.html
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Postby Silverhaze on Fri Dec 01, 2006 11:52 am

Yeah cos I can clearly remember being scared shitless by Father Christmas when I was a kid! :roll:
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Postby were on Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:25 pm

dirty old man..act childish,eating milk and cookies, giving toys to young girls and boys...

can you say michael jackson? :shock:
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Postby Class316 on Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:36 pm

Rabbi threatens lawsuit, Christmas tree yanked

SEATAC, Wash. - All nine Christmas trees have been removed from the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport instead of adding a giant Jewish menorah to the holiday display as a rabbi had requested.

Maintenance workers boxed up the trees during the graveyard shift early Saturday, when airport bosses believed few people would notice.

"We decided to take the trees down because we didn't want to be exclusive," said airport spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt. "We're trying to be thoughtful and respectful, and will review policies after the first of the year."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_ ... tmas_trees

The tradition had reportedly lasted for over 25 years, with a tree placed over each of the 15 airport entrances. However, all the trees have been removed, literally overnight, after the complaint or complaints, reportedly originating with an unidentified Seattle rabbi in conjunction with the Central Organization for Jewish Learning, who reportedly threatened a lawsuit "if the airport did not erect an eight-foot menorah to balance the message of the Christmas trees."


http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=28799

Here's a leftist article celebrating the abolishment of Christmas:

An international airport is a crossroads of humanity; you see folks from every corner of the globe. It’s imperative that American international airports don’t contain any jingoistic billboards or anything that may offend someone from another culture.

We should seek to welcome foreign visitors — not assault them with religious displays they may find offensive.

Christmas is all about shopping anyway, and most international airports have retail outlets. Stores and shopping centers are the very essence of the Christmas season. For the holiday season airports should decorate their stores with ribbons and leave it at that.


http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/10/chr ... thank-god/

I want to go to Saudi Arabia during Ramadan and say I'm offended by Islamic symbols at the airport. I wonder how well that would go over!
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Postby Class316 on Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:06 pm

Seattle airport bringing back Christmas trees

SEATAC, Washington (AP) -- Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Pat Davis, president of the Port of Seattle commission, which directs airport operations, said late Monday that maintenance staff would restore the 14 plastic holiday trees, festooned with red ribbons and bows, that were removed over the weekend because of a rabbi's complaint that holiday decor did not include a menorah.

Airport managers believed that if they allowed the addition of an 8-foot-tall menorah to the display, as Seattle Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky had requested, they would also have to display symbols of other religions and cultures, which was not something airport workers had time for during the busiest travel season of the year, Airport Director Mark Reis said earlier Monday.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/airpor ... index.html
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Postby Class316 on Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:46 pm

Dobbs: A tree grows in Seattle

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Merry Christmas! That's right, Merry Christmas. Whether you're Christian, Jewish, Muslim, agnostic, pagan, barbarian or whatever, Merry Christmas!

It's what most of us say in this country come this time of year. It's about who we are, where we are and where we've been. And all the namby-pamby, little sensitive darlings among us who can't handle this verbal assault on their delicate senses should immediately begin seeking emergency psychiatric care.

This week we were treated to the spectacle of an easily offended and highly offensive rabbi who walked into an airport, gazed upon Christmas trees all around him and suddenly was overwhelmed with an immense, and apparently irresistible, urge to sue the management of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport because nowhere among all the Christmas trees was a single menorah. Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement of Seattle even delivered to the airport's management a draft of a lawsuit he would file if they didn't sprinkle menorahs around the Christmas trees.

Political correctness in this country reached an entirely new level of absurdity some years ago. But occasionally, and the situation at Sea-Tac is just such an occasion, we exceed ourselves. The militant fundamentalist rabbi so flummoxed Sea-Tac management with his threat and their perceived obligation to be "politically correct" that, rather than think rationally or simply tell him to stuff it, they started hacking away at all those artificial Christmas trees and quickly descended into a public relations nightmare in which they managed to offend reason, cultural values and the vast majority of Americans.

As CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin told me, "The Supreme Court has held since 1984, the famous 'Reindeer Rule,' that if a symbol of Christmas is mostly secular, like a reindeer or a Christmas tree or Santa Claus, that is not a violation of the separation of church and state."


http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/12/Dobbs.Dec13/index.html
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Postby Class316 on Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:25 am

UK: Tots told - dont sing about Jesus

A TODDLERS' group in Wood Green was warned it must drop its Christian title and stop singing songs about Jesus - or face having its funding axed by Haringey Council.

Council officers protested when they were advised the group was to change its name to The Polish and Eastern European Christian Family Centre - and, following further investigation, organisers were told to stop singing a song about loving Jesus.

Gosia Shannon, organiser of the group, was warned that funding by the council could be stopped unless its activities were in future "strictly of a non-religious nature".


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i h8 jews.

Postby xt0rt on Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:42 am

kthx.
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Christmas tree banned from courthouse lobby

Postby DonCatoli on Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:51 am

More zionizim at play, even on non-religious symbols. I bet she has Hanukkah garbage plastered everywhere

The PM called the move stupid.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2006/12/14/christmas-tree.html?ref=rss

A Toronto judge has banished a Christmas tree from the lobby of a provincial courthouse, saying the "Christian symbol" might alienate people of other faiths.

Judge Marion Cohen ordered that a small artificial tree on display in the Ontario Court of Justice at 311 Jarvis St. be placed in a back hallway, out of sight of the entrance.

She wrote in a note to staff that she didn't think it was appropriate that when people entered the courthouse, the "first thing they see is a Christian symbol."

The tree's presence suggests to non-Christians that they are "not part of this institution," she said, according to the Toronto Sun.
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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty called it an "unfortunate" incident.

"I think it reflects a mistaken understanding of what we're trying to do here," said McGuinty.

He said the province is working hard to build a pluralistic multicultural society and that means celebrating all traditions, not asking some to abandon them.

"It doesn't offend anyone when we celebrate Diwali at Queen's Park or celebrate Hanukkah at Queen's Park," he said. "It's part of who we are."

Cohen has refused to publicly speak on the matter.

A spokesman for the Ministry of the Attorney General stated that as the local administrative judge, Cohen has the right to rule on such issues in the courthouse.
Tree not a religious symbol

Meanwhile, Dr. Robert Buckman, president emeritus of the Humanist Association of Canada, argues that the Christmas tree is not even a religious symbol.

"This is a simple, secular symbol of a festival period," he said. "It's like the pumpkin in Halloween. The pumpkin is actually reminiscent, apparently, of trying to scare ghosts and lighting jack-o'-lanterns and spirits coming into the house and all.

"But no one says you can't put a pumpkin on your porch unless you believe in goblins."
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Postby Class316 on Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:21 am

Decorations banned because they depress jobless

SCROOGE bosses have banned Christmas decorations from the Job Centre in Bexleyheath.

The decision has affected around 17 centres across south London, and also includes Job Centre and Jobcentre Plus offices in Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley.

Staff say they were told in a meeting to keep baubles and tinsel out of the front offices where customers are.


http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/newsb ... obless.php
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Postby Silverhaze on Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:13 pm

Hahahaha I never heard such a thing!!!!!!!!! :lol:

Nobody thought it might give them an extra kick up the arse to get off their lazy fucking backsides and get a frikkin job??

Pisses me right off, I walk past Croydon job centre when I go to lunch sometimes and I've lost count of the amount of times I see some well.....(I dont need to say who) pull up in a flashy car, park it outside on the yellow no parking lines and run into the place to grab their DSS cheque so they can stick it in the bank with the rest of the drug money and buy a new HDTV with ornate fake gold trim.
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Postby xt0rt on Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:01 am

the US may be getting more and more PC, but it's nothing like the UK from what i gather. bunch of socialist pussies.
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Postby Silverhaze on Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:06 pm

Aye you may right but at least our kids dont get shot in school. :D
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