[stainlessbanner]

I thought this was about Christmas, FL.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Here we go again.

Blue State morals at work, and just waiting for the Red State backlash to occur.

[PeterFinn]

"Then-Vice Mayor Isaac Salver..."

A bigoted, racist Jew? Say it isn't so?

[Jokelahoma]

Just another example of "ABC" thinking in the Blue states... "Anybody But Christians".

[Edgerunner]

Positive Action at last! Keep goin'!!!!!!!
(what does Jewish and Islamic symbols have to do with Christmas?)
Ramadan=Islam (moon-god crescent time)
Hanukkah=Jewish (star of David time)
Christmas=Christian (Cross,mangier,etc time)

[steplock]

We KNOW that the aclu is actively fighting against the city's discriminatory policies! Right?? NO????

[Calvarys_Soldier]

Ah yes, a higher power with moral absolutes...the old arch enemy of the Liberal.

[EagleUSA]

I hope these leftist, anti-ethics-and-morals fools keep it up. Each time they try to suppress Christianity and its values, they put another nail in their long overdue anti-American coffins....

[milford421]

Thank you for posting this. I sent a letter to Thomas Moore, thanking them for defending my religious freedoms.

Does anyone have any information on stores that have not "caved" and have not removed all vestiges of Christmas?

I am boycotting Macy's, Target, and would like a list of stores that are tolerant of my Christian faith.

[truthseeker04]

The anti-Christian bigots in Bay Harbor have a lot of chutzpah. Isaac Salver apparently only has a problem with Christian holiday decorations in public. The CPA doesn't seem to find menorah displays in the public domain to be "trivial", however. Consider this:

"Chabad at University of Miami brought its world-famous public menorah-lighting ceremony to the UM campus for the second consecutive year."

Isaac Salver, a councilman from the Town of Bay Harbor Islands, helped students arrange for officials of South Florida cities to join in the celebration and issue proclamations acknowledging the great work that Chabad has contributed to UM and surrounding communities.

Bay Harbor Islands, Coral Gables, Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens, Pinecrest, and South Miami participated.

Contact info:
BAY HARBOR ISLANDS
9665 Bay Harbor Terrace
Bay Harbor Islands, FL 33154

townhall@bayhaboislands.org

Mayor: Isaac Salver (305) 866-6241
Vice Mayor: Peter G. Lynch (305) 866-6241
Councilmember: George Reycraft (305) 866-6241
Councilmember: Jill Rosenstein-Serfaty (305) 866-6241
Councilmember: Ileene S. Wallace (305) 866-6241
Councilmember: Kenneth Weinstein (305) 866-6241
Councilmember: Robert Yaffe (305) 866-6241

[truthseeker04]

More direct contact info and pictures of the bigots.
http://www.bayharborislands.org/webpage/Text/towncouncil.htm

[ZULU]

"the town has adorned the lampposts lining its main street with menorahs and stars of David "

Those are "Holiday Candlesticks" not Menorahs, and "Holiday Stars", not Stars of David. The Christians just have to refer to the Creche as a "Holiday Stable".

[truthseeker04]

Was the mayor trying to have her thrown out of her apartment for complaining about the alleged discrimination? If so, she might have course for more legal action against him.

"It all started last December, when the 53-year-old Bay Harbor Islands resident sent a complaint to the town council. Snowdon called the six Menorahs and six Stars of David that line the main street during Hanukkah, one-sided.

By comparison, she said, the red and green poinsettias on the Kane Concourse are just plants. Snowdon demanded that the symbols reflecting only one religion come down immediately." "Living in this culturally diverse community, Bay Harbor and also Miami-Dade County, I am not certain what message our town is trying to send out to visitors and residents that travel the Kane Concourse during this holiday season," she wrote.

The letter raised the ire of Vice Mayor Isaac Salver, who is Jewish. Salver admitted that he called Snowdon's landlord and complained to the landlord's parents and the rabbi of the local synagogue.

"I just thought it might be important for a Holocaust survivor to know what's going on in our town," Salver said, referring to his efforts to alert the landlord's parents.