Posted on 12/11/2003 11:21:33 AM PST by Apolitical
A student at Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis emailed me to say that a 12-foot decorated Christmas tree disappeared from her school atrium on December 2. Students received an email from the Dean for External Affairs, explaining:
"The tree came down because there were members of the law school community who thought it was divisive and inappropriate. The school will be putting up another holiday decoration to replace it---I think today--if at all possible. There were individuals who believed that the tree sent the wrong message to the law school community and would make some people feel excluded."
Law Professor Florence Wagman Roisman first complained about the tree, telling a local newspaper, "This is unacceptable at a place that presents itself as inclusive of all people." Now, the Indiana University School of Law atrium features a politically correct "Indiana Winter scene" devoid of Christmas-specific symbols. The setting includes fake snow, two small, bare trees, and poinsettia plants.
For university diversity administrators, t'is the season for PC winter celebrations. And, you better watch out, the legal Grinches are coming to town in search of Christmas cheer on public property.
In Tipton, Iowa, the lawn of the Cedar County Courthouse has been decorated with a nativity scene each December for years. But now, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed an official complaint against the county, alleging that the nativity display violates the First Amendment.
Several years ago, the City of Troy, Michigan gave in to similar challenges to its annual Christmas displays. Last week, City Councilman David Lambert introduced a resolution to restore his city's nativity scene, but it failed by a vote of 5 to 2.
Not far from Troy, in Caro, Michigan, Wiccan activists are staging protests against the city's nativity display. Fortunately, when the witches filed a lawsuit last year to have the display dismantled, the case was thrown out.
In Baldwin City, Kansas, it was Santa Claus who was thrown out of an elementary school last week. The ACLU has filed a complaint against the Baldwin City schools for allowing a Santa Claus impersonator to visit young students and share with them the true story of Christmas......
(Excerpt) Read more at iconoclast.ca ...
Supreme Court Jesterces in training no doubt...
Santa will go when the war against obesity starts in earnest. Santa also has another flaw, he is a pipe smoker. -Tom
"Join us as we celebrate the holiday season on Friday, December 5 at 7 p.m. at the Howard Avenue Park in front of the Prevention of Blindness Shop. Santa Claus will arrive on a KVFD fire truck to light an evergreen tree, donated by St. Paul's United Methodist Men and Sewell's Farm in Taneytown. Following Santa's visit, enjoy holiday music sung by members of Kensington Arts Theatre. Stand by a warm fire and enjoy delicious cookies, hot chocolate and cider."
They still don't want to call it "Christmas", which is OK I guess, since Kensington has a very large Jewish population.
The only way to counter this is for people to develop an "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE" attitude, and start expressing how badly we are offended by this disrespectful treatment of our religion.
Just stand up to the PC Nazis, refuse to go along with it. Go out of your way to wish people "Merry Christmas" at work and in school. When they try to stifle you, stand up to them. The reason they get away with this is that they declare policy, and we back down and grumble to ourselves. Maybe it's time to let them know that Christians get offended too, and that this has to stop.
I was being presumptuous here. I know that we aren't all Christians. I would hope our Jewish brethren could also be persuaded to support a desire to see this shameful treatment of the Christianity, just as we, for the most part, support them in their desire for respect and fair treatment.
I was being presumptuous here. I know that we aren't all Christians. I would hope our Jewish brethren could also be persuaded to support a desire to see this shameful treatment of the Christianity put to an end, just as we, for the most part, support them in their desire for respect and fair treatment.
This is being pushed because of the liberal's hatred of anything traditional.
But they would have no problems whatsoever having a female impersonator to visit young students and share with them the true story of his perversion. Ya gotta love the ACLU!
Yesterday as I was standing in line at the post office to get my Christmas stamps, the sounds of real Christmas carols wafted throughout the lobby . . . sounds of Silent Night, Joy to the World, etc. One of the postal clerks had a small CD player at her station, and she was playing the music. The line was looooooong, yet no one objected ... no one seemed offended. It was like the "old days" when everyone seemed to be full of Christmas cheer.
This is the same post office where, last year, another clerk congratulated me for requesting religious Christmas stamps. He told me then that he tried to make a point of saying "Merry Christmas" to customers and not just "happy holidays" (even though he said he had been instructed by his boss NOT to say Merry Christmas).
I will not mention the exact post office in case the PC police are monitoring this post.)
Oh, for crying out freakin' loud.
People have got to be getting sick of all this nonsense.
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