Nativity scenes cause uproar

Washington Times ^ | 12/19/03 | Joyce Howard Price

[kattracks]

As in every holiday season, efforts have been made this year to take Christ out of Christmas in schools and at other public events.

A Nativity scene was removed from a showcase in Simmons Elementary School in Horsham, Pa.

"The administration removed it because it was too overt in its religious significance," said a spokeswoman for the Hatboro-Horsham School District.

[evolved_rage]

"There was not a peep until a Jewish man decided to put up a Nativity scene in honor of his deceased Christian wife. Then, the ACLU announced it was getting involved," said mayoral spokeswoman Robin Schutt.

I think I'll work on a holdiday display of a thorn bush lit by small burning effigies of ACLU lawyers.

[Eva]

Geez, my husband used live in Horsham.

[jwalsh07]

Mr. Kendzior sad the Meriden library director thought the paintings she wanted left out "would create problems with the establishment clause of the Constitution."

She's referring to the Marxist Constitution which forbids religion in public. Small mistake, understandable if regrettable.

[Ground0]

I'm reminded of friends who celebrate by hanging a spent.45 casing on a branching twig.....A cartrige in a bare tree.

Now who could be offended by that?

[AAABEST]

Kat.

Ever think about updating your formatting? On a monitor it reads better with no indents and a full space between paragraphs.

You're typing classic, which is proper but not as good when viewed on a monitor.

[vpintheak]

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON! As much as people love to deny it, it is the truth.

[easonc52]

I think I'll work on a holdiday display of a thorn bush lit by small burning effigies of ACLU lawyers.

I'm with you on that...

Some of my most memorable experiences as a child were my dad driving us around at Christmas time appreciating all the displays.

At that time, it never entered my mind that there would be a day when people would have so many political hangups around such a simple and beautiful sharing...

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ahem! Your link please?!

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - SECULARIZATION OF AMERICA ALERT!

[little jeremiah]

LOL! How about effigies of ACLU lawyers standing in electic flames, holding little Constitutions in one hand and a pretend little lighted match in the other? And a large ZOT suspended above their heads, about to pounce.

[cherry]

I am going to go to the religious store tomorrow and find something to put out by my mailbox that expresses what Christmas really is....I don't know what it will be....maybe just a banner that says "Jesus is the reason for the season"......

[tjwmason]

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON! As much as people love to deny it, it is the truth.

Whenever somebody sends me a card with 'Season's Greetings' on it, I reflect on the fact that the 'season' merely means cold wet weather, and dark nights. Without Christ, the season is utterly ghastly, with Him, it is the crowning of the year.

"Et Verbum caro factum est et habitabit in nobis; et vidimus gloriam eius gloiram quasi Unigenti a Patre, plenum gratiae et veritatis."

[joesbucks]

There are all kinds of things happening this season, including the birth of Christ. There's Hannuka, the end of the winter solstace (sp), a new year and other event's that begin renewal. Thus Season's Greetings.

[livius]

If it's any consolation, I just got back from Spain, where it is traditional to display "Belenes" (creches or Nativity scenes) in public and private places. But in recent years, it has seemed to me that the Belén was being pushed out by the Christmas tree or some other semi-secular symbol, such as bells.

However, this year, for some reason, everybody in Spain seems to have put up a Nativity scene. Department stores, private individuals, city halls, etc. It was great to see!

[StonyBurk]

1956 Websters-Holiday:{holy +day} a religous feast day.
Christmas{Christ +Mass}An annual church festival ,kept on Dec.25 in memory of the birth of Christ.As christ is the reason for the holiday season removal of a Nativity for
purported overt religious symbolism is a removal of the
reason for the holiday and we are no better off than the
Russian Christians under Soviet Communism.

[Guillermo]

Crosses are banned....but, if you put a Cross in a bottle of piss, then it's OK.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I'm reminded of friends who celebrate by hanging a spent.45 casing on a branching twig.....A cartrige in a bare tree."

Technically, if it's a spent casing, it's no longer a, "cartridge." (I know, nothing's sacred anymore.)

[OpusatFR]

I'm outraged that while I am told to respect the outward manifestations and practices of other religions, my religion is deemed ~too offensive~ to be displayed in the public venue.

Just who has determined that Christianity is an offense?

[AnAmericanMother]

"All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est.

This night there is a child yborn
That sprange out of Jesse's thorn;
We must sing and say thereforn

All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est.

Jesus is the childes name,
And Mary mild is his dame;
All our sorrow shall turn to game:

All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est.

It fell upon a high midnight:
The starres shone both fair and bright;
The angels sang with all their might,

All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est.

Now kneel we down on our knee
And pray we to the Trinity
Our help, our succour for to be;

All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est;
Verbum caro, Verbum caro, Verbum caro factum est."