well they weren't, but i'll make SURE they are now...Seriously? They always have to find a way to attack Christianity, don’t they. /rhetorical
Headline “Palm Sunday causing Global Warming during Sequester”. Bush’s fault.
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Mrs. Wexler’s little Jay Jay REALLY needs to find a hobby or something.
Hey Wexler! Go hump a donkey!
Are they fair trade/dolphin safe? Do they offer partner benefits for same sex couples? The pravda media wants to know!
I think this is a false report (consider the source!).
I happen to KNOW that most American Churches get their palms from several farms in South Florida. They are grown and harvested under careful conditions, as evidenced by the uniformity and health of the fronds used by churches (Catholic and Protestant) across America. If this article were true, the palms distributed would be various sizes, not green and healthy-looking like the palms we see. Thge harvest can only be done once a year anyway, so how could this be hurting the environment?
These family-owned and operated farms were featured on several TV documentaries, provide employment for harvesters during the off-season, and are a source of agricultural income for my state.
Not to mention they are a part of Christian Cultural life, which is, I suspect, the whole reason for this article in the first place.
well they weren't, but i'll make SURE they are now...Get a life, Slate.
Oh, forgot, you’re liberals.
Please, leave the thinking to grownups.
Or as the saying goes, "With fronds like these, who needs enemas."
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Who gives a fig.
Crypto Marxists
Oh good grief.
If it was part of a Muslim celebration you wouldn’t hear a word.
“Most likely they have been imported...”
Fakse They come from the Coachella Valley of California.
The same place that replaced the Date Palm Trees of Morocco when they had their wilt disease.
From the pile it higher and deeper crowd. This is without a doubt one of the biggest loads of BS I have read this year.
I live in the low desert of Southern California. It is the date palm capital of the US, and the only source of dates in the US. In addition, we have numerous other varieties of palm tries. Our Summer temperatures can reach 120 degrees, and all of these palm trees are in direct sunlight. Yet all of our palm trees thrive. In fact, the palm trees in our residential communities have to be pruned every year. Even if one removed every single frond from a palm tree, within a couple of months, new fronds would be growing rather quickly.
This is simply one more anti-Catholic rant by the religion haters of this world.
Give me a break! Fragile?! Not hardly. Things grow very fast in the rainforest.