[pissant]

Kudos to the Mayor. Democrat or Republican, I don't care. It was the absolutely correct decision. For those who want to bitch and moan, I suggest you tell your employers that you do not celebrate Christmas and work that day w/o extra pay.

Cheers!

[lawdude]

Doesn't the celebration of Hanukkah discriminate against Christians?

When some minority slug proclaims his/her outrage at being discriminated against and gets something set aside, howse about the vast majority that are discriminated by that?

Don't we live by MAJORITY rule? Not to denigrate the minorities but they should NOT dictate to the majority.

We have devolved now to where not only can the majority not step on the "rights" of the minority but the minority CAN step on the rights of the majority!

[bigsigh]

I think the city should spend all the tax money they want on a parade for a Christian holiday and let the Jews and others move to another city or shut up. What's wrong with them?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

OK, if anybody knows of any businesses in Encinitas that do mail order, I'm inclined to buy my Christmas presents from them.... Please advise :-).

[Tax-chick]

there is a Christian holiday called Christmas that is about Santa Claus and reindeer and snowmen and getting together with family and friends and having parades and all this stuff

Gosh, silly me thinking that Christmas was about the birth of the Son of God incarnate.

I'm sorry, but if "Christmas" is about reindeer and Santa Claus - are reindeer even native to the U.S.? - then it might as will be Winter Solstice or Festivus.

[4mycountry]

He said he will not change the name back.

Good for him!

[avile]

As an Orthodox Jew, I am sick an tired of marginal Jews pissing off Gentiles in the name of "Judaism".

The vast majority of Jewish Jews don't try to erase Christmas. It is secularists _Jew and Gentile that do it . Unfortunatley when gentiles do they don't pretend they are doing it for religious reasons - they usually admit they are secular.
Unfortunately Jewish libs like that pseudo rabbi end up alienating philo semites with their crap.
Reform Rabbis are not rabbis.
they know less Torah than high school Yeshiva students , and since high school Yeshiva students are not rabbis neither are those whores.

[mewzilla]

Makes me think of this thread:

Merry Christmas Is NOT Offensive: Rabbi Urges Respect For Christian Holiday Alert

[Hacksaw]

Logically, one would think that the "community groups" and the Jewish groups would object to the holiday of Christmas as well. Since they obviously don't, why would they try to hijack a parade? Some people just can't be happy unless they are a stick in the mud. A High Five to the mayor for telling them go pound sand through his act.

[Hacksaw]

The number of community organizations applying to participate this year has dropped from last year's 95 to 82, Hazeltine said.

That's a hell of a boycott there!

[montag813]

Rabbi David Frank of Temple Solel said many of the 800 households in his congregation will not attend. "It makes it very difficult, obviously, to participate in this specifically Christian observance," Frank said.

As a Jew I say that "Rabbi" Frank is a bigoted schmuck. Why can't he participate? God forbid he have a Channukah Parade later on. If he did he would be surprised to find how many Christian neighbors would come out to support it. I am willing to bet $1,000 that this jerk is a so-called Rabbi of a Reform congregation. Once again we see the Deformed "Jews" fomenting conflict with Christians. These left-wing JINOs have really gone too far.

[Delphinium]

So,people can go see the parade in peace without all those creeps.

[Amelia]

"...holiday called Christmas that is about Santa Claus and reindeer and snowmen and getting together with family and friends and having parades and all this stuff,"

And that has absolutely WHAT to do with Jesus Christ and his birthday?

[AmericanVictory]

Hmmm! Back when I was single I once had a blind date with a bernese mountain dog. Who'da thunk there was a bunch of them, and they have a club?

[XR7]

Seattle has started calling the annual Christmas Parade the POST-THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE!!!

Inane political correctness run totally amuck.

The Sammamish High School drill team marches down Fourth Avenue in downtown
Seattle during the annual Bon-Macy's post-Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade
features balloon floats and inflatables, area bands and 400 costumed characters.