How long before Santa is tossed out of shopping malls and department stores? His presence might confuse impressionable young children.
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To: Apolitical
The tree came down because there were members of the law school community who thought it was divisive and inappropriate. Supreme Court Jesterces in training no doubt...
2 posted on
12/11/2003 11:28:30 AM PST by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: Apolitical
How long before Santa is tossed out of shopping malls and department stores? His presence might confuse impressionable young children. Santa will go when the war against obesity starts in earnest. Santa also has another flaw, he is a pipe smoker. -Tom
3 posted on
12/11/2003 11:30:40 AM PST by
Capt. Tom
(Anything done in moderation shows a lack of interest. - Capt. Tom)
To: Apolitical
But it does appear that the City Of Kensington, Maryland learned its lesson from a couple years back:
"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.
4 posted on
12/11/2003 11:34:03 AM PST by
angkor
To: Apolitical
The backlash about this issue is building. How much longer will people allow the leftwing elites to get away with treating Christmas as if it's a dirty word? They always seem to trot out this mysterious group of people who 'might be offended", do they even exist? Do they have some tenured radicals on the payroll that can always be counted on to be "offended" by the things the average American reveres' like God and the flag?. It surely isn't a majority of people, not in most places anyway.
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.
5 posted on
12/11/2003 11:37:02 AM PST by
Kenton
(This space for rent)
To: Apolitical
Just who ARE these people who feel excluded? Why don't they speak up? Its always some a$$hole saying someone "might" feel excluded or threatened or shat upon by the depiction of a Christmas display.
6 posted on
12/11/2003 11:37:06 AM PST by
Adder
To: Apolitical
bump
7 posted on
12/11/2003 11:37:31 AM PST by
VOA
To: Apolitical
Wait till they find out about Santa violating Federal Elf labor laws.
8 posted on
12/11/2003 11:38:43 AM PST by
kb2614
(".....We've done nothing and were all out of ideas!!")
To: Apolitical
These same law school leftists who brand a Christmas tree as "..not being inclusive of all people." seem to have no problem giving race based preferences in admission to their hallowed institutions. What hypocracy!
To: Apolitical
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...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!
To: Apolitical
The joke's on the university. Ain't nothing Christian about a "Christmas tree". It's a pagan symbol, pure and simple. They were confused by its name. Not surprising for an institution of "higher learning".
If they used their brains a bit, they'd eliminate Santa Claus, because Santa Claus is a form of "Saint Nicholas" which would send their heads spinning in anti-Christian hate.
15 posted on
12/11/2003 11:50:57 AM PST by
BooksForTheRight.com
(Christmas tree is a pagan symbol, not Christian)
To: Apolitical
An encouraging word from the Left Coast:
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.)
16 posted on
12/11/2003 11:51:00 AM PST by
RightField
(The older you get . . . the older "old" is !)
To: Apolitical
"The school will be putting up another holiday decoration to replace it..."
Perhaps a voodoo doll or maybe a pentagram?
17 posted on
12/11/2003 11:53:49 AM PST by
Lee Heggy
("Never tell a lie--except for practice." M. Twain)
To: Apolitical
"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." Oh, for crying out freakin' loud.
People have got to be getting sick of all this nonsense.
19 posted on
12/11/2003 12:07:25 PM PST by
Allegra
To: Apolitical
22 posted on
12/11/2003 12:13:55 PM PST by
Pyro7480
("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: Apolitical
I'm glad to see this article calls them grinches. I've been wondering for some time why they aren't called that.
To: Apolitical
Bastards.. $%$# Grinches trying to kill Christmas really piss me off and I'm not even Christian.
I want my &%$#* country back!
To: Apolitical
26 posted on
12/11/2003 12:31:08 PM PST by
wisconsinconservative
("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")
To: Apolitical
How long before Santa is tossed out of shopping malls and department stores?Soon I hope. I need a new business idea and I'd be delighted to pander to all the un pc people out there. The market is huge.
I'll have a Santa giving gifts to baby Jesus. Tacky as tacky! LOL
28 posted on
12/11/2003 1:18:33 PM PST by
Protagoras
(Vote Republican, we're not as bad as the other guys.)
To: Apolitical
I'm an atheist and I still don't understand the problem these people have with Christmas.
To: Apolitical
INTREP - PC
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