Posted on 12/03/2004 6:04:36 AM PST by presidio9
Governor Schwarzenegger lit the state Christmas tree and ended a secular practice of calling it a "holiday tree."
The governor made no mention of the name change that was in honor of the late Senator William "Pete" Knight. Schwarzenegger said at Knight's funeral in May that he would change the name back to Christmas tree.
Knight had lobbied unsuccessfully to change the name after Governor Davis decided to call it a holiday tree.
During the 73rd annual lighting, Schwarzenegger took on the role of "Triminator" as he helped a disabled girl trim the tree with the final ornament.
The governor and first lady Maria Shriver then flipped a switch to light five thousand multicolored bulbs before a crowd of about one thousand onlookers.
One small step for man....one giant leap for mankind...
Way to go Arnold!!
Yes, calling it a "Christmas tree" is in violation of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..."
Awesome..thanks Governator.
I really hope the ACLU takes on Arnold over this.
GO Arnie!
THIS will bring out the Arnie bashers! Lol.
Isn't it supposed to be called a Holiday Tree that symbolizes what some faith experienced groups call a holiday to recognize the birth of a homeless child to homeless parents some 2000 years ago.
What's up with this Christmas thing? Sounds religious and probably very exclusionary. /sarcasm
By the end of the day he decided Christmas wasn't such a bad word after all.
Little by little we are bringing our traditions back to our public squares.
Terminator IV..........Rise of the Christians! :O)
And dozens of ACLU cockroaches scurried for the shadows
Communisim cannot prevail where there is Christianity. There is a long term plan here and it is time to push back.
The liberal communist left. There can be only One God. The state. As long as people have faith in a God other than the government they have no control.
As a CA resident kudo's to Arnie. IT IS CHRISTMAS FOR GOODNESS SAKE, so therefore it is a Christmas Tree and frankly if people don't like this holiday we celebrate than they can just leave!!! or go home and celebrate your own way everyone else can celebrate there way they want except for anything to do with Christ, Jesus or GOD. So Kudo's Arnie for giving CA back the Christmas Tree and can someone tell me what exactly is a Holiday Tree??***!!!
Uhhh, that would be Satan.
Thank you Arnold for doing it right. This will not be forgotten.
Hooray!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
For his next publicity stunt, maybe Ahhhnold could take a magic marker, and put the three crosses back on the Los Angeles (City of the Angels) seal?
Good move by the Governator!
Thank you, king (hmmm, king :]). A very merry and blessed Christmas to you and yours, and many, many more.
Absolutely beautiful! What a nice way to start my day. Thank you!
Rather than call it Political Correctness, which implies that it is correct, I choose to call it Liberal Internationalist Speech Protocol (L.I.S.P). Or Liberal Speech Orthodoxy, which has a nice Stalinist ring to it. Of course we have our own orthodoxies, and it won't be long until someone comes on this thread and says "This is nice but Schwarzenegger has made pro-choice statements in the past so he's really a RINO and not our kind of conservative.
Merry Christmas has been a violation of LISP for a long time. What's new this winter seems to me to be the attempt to make it illegal and/or eradicate it completely, as if it never existed.
Tony Snow wants to go sing Christmas Carols in front of the ACLU office. I say that to make the required impression we need to go to the Capitol Rotunda and do it.
Been this way for, oh.....2000 years or so.
Right you are, see my post #22. Maybe Ahhhnold is better than Davis, at least symbolically.
Don't blame me, I voted for McClintock! (He'd have had crosses, and an angel on top)
Merry Christmas!
MY civil disobedience strategy for this one includes everyone getting an LA County seal, with crosses, and putting on the windows of their cars.
Where is the line between the unwritten rule regarding separation of church and state and the clear statement of the Constitution that free exercise of religion shall not be abridged? It seems to be lost. It needs to be found.
Calling a Christmas tree a Christmas tree is a "stunt?"
Not new. You're hearing about the same number of instances where some people or places try to be "inclusive" (resulting in being "exclusive") and the citizens protesting.
There is no "maybe" about it and it is more than symbolically.
~sheesh~
And it flies in the face of the attempt of the West to deny its cultural history (as in the EU Constitution).
Really? You mean Denver is now going to have a Christmas parade? I hadn't heard.
We need some wins against the ACLU. Right now I believe most of us don't believe there is any way to beat them given the unholy alliance between them, the 'rats, the rest of the leew'yehs and the judiciary.
Yes, it's Christmas after all.
Good for him. I was thinking that if the liberals get their way we should just ban Christmas totally. No more holiday gift giving, no more retailer profits, no more breaks from school and no more over time for working on Dec. 25. I'd like to see them try and do that. It is the logical conclusion to their efforts. If a move was afoot to ban Christmas then I am sure there would be a lot of resistance and Christmas would be come back into vogue with a roar. It would show what total asses these people are.
Ahnold rules.
Maybe this is the beginning of a trend, thank goodness.
That's how it comes off, anyway.
BTW, I didn't suggest an alliance with the ACLU, holy or unholy. I based my above comments on your other posts including this curious chastisement seemingly directed my way when it was not warranted.
Let's not forget Festivus...
Yeah well...I'm going to roll it next Halloween and put up a big sign that says "Holiday Tree."
Why do these people act as if Christmas is the only holiday or holiday season? If it's a holiday tree then it has to be up year round cause Martin Luther King Day deserves the holiday tree, and labor day, and Easter, and New Year's Day, etc...who do these clowns think they are fooling calling it a Holiday Tree?
That is simplistic. Lol. Is he then responsible for all the anti-Christ stuff?
I thought we all had, uhhh, free will.
You know, nobody lobbies to change the name of the Menorah to a Holiday Candelabra. And yet, I see them in the town squares of many of city....
According to the article, Mayor John Hickenlooper caved to public pressure which resisted his PC replacement of "Christmas" with "Holidays."
Looks like the "perpetually disgruntled" are the ones who won the fight.
Ahnold rules; ACLU drools.
A trend? That WOULD be a nice CHRISTmas present.
That was what I said.
The ACLU folks are the same types who cry over the so-called "poor economy". Maybe the lackluster sales figures for the first weekend of Christmas(!!!) shopping is a natural consequence of the war-like stance being taken against any mention of the word "Christmas" of "Jesus". The mean-spirited actions of the secularists are having bad consequences not only on the nations' moral values but on the economy as well.
Amend: I said the citizens objected.
That is different than the perpetually disgruntled contingent.
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