Posted on 11/30/2005 9:03:40 AM PST by jagusafr
Hastert Wants 'Christmas,' Tree Together Nov 29 9:46 PM US/Eastern Email this story
WASHINGTON
If it's a spruce tree adorned with 10,000 lights and 5,000 ornaments displayed on the Capitol grounds in December, it's a Christmas tree and that's what it should be called, says House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
Hastert, R-Ill., in a letter to the Architect of the Capitol, recommended that the annual Capitol Holiday Tree, as it has been called the past several years, be renamed the Capitol Christmas Tree.
"I strongly urge that we return to this tradition and join the White House, countless other public institutions and millions of American families in celebrating the holiday season with a Christmas tree," Hastert wrote to Architect Alan Hantman.
His office said the tree began to be referred to as the Holiday Tree in the 1990s. Spokesman Ron Bonjean said the reasons were unclear.
On Dec. 8 Hastert will flip the switch to light the tree, a 65-foot Engelmann Spruce from the Santa Fe National Forest in New Mexico. On Tuesday workmen were erecting the tree on the West Front of the Capitol.
"Happy Holidays"!
:-)
LOL!!
If you had looked at the sidebar, you would have found the previous posting of this story.
Look, I can barely get something posted! I probably started before the other guy!
"Learn not the way of the heathen ... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not"
Jer. 10:2-4
LOL!! I know just what you mean.
The odd thing is the PC-police make a big deal out of saying "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" when the term "holiday" is basically the joining of the words "Holy Day".
How about anti-Christian, whiney liberal, PC bulls$h!t?
The irony is that the tree was originally a pagan symbol that was incorporated by Christians not all that long ago. I read somewhere that the 17th Century Puritans would not allow Christmas trees at first because they saw it as worshipping nature and not Jesus.
This story inspires me to wish everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Happy Hannukwanzmas!
I believe the holiday you were searching for was RamaHannuKwanzMas.
For those business that insist on selling "holiday" trees, we should give them a visit a few days before Memorial Day and ask to purchase a "holiday" tree. The look on the clerk's face would be a hoot.
Good one!
Please do not use this thread to bash Jewish people. Chanukah is a legitimate religious observance that occurs near Christmas each year.
Many rabbis have spoken out against the effort to diminish Christmas and Christians in American public life.
Christians in this country have given Jews the best and safest place to live that they have ever had. In turn, they have been among the best-behaved and productive people in our society.
See, now ya got me thinkin'...this may be a fun spring!
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