[PeteB570]

Nice story, thanks for posting it.

[baseballmom]

snip..Still, Zientarski issued a call to arms to everyone on his e-mail list to defend Christmas. "Call your stores and encourage them to say, 'Merry Christmas' (and Happy Hannukah too)," he wrote. "Look for those Nativity scenes! We should all be proud to be Christians who believe in the Lord, Our Savior, and we should encourage ALL faiths to be people of 'faith,' not 'holidays' and the secular."

Exactly. Enough already of the secularization of Christmas and Hanukah.

[NYer]

Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[Brooklyn Kid]

lol. Kaiman's insane. the unreligious blessing by a priest. lol.

[vimto]

the Rev. Nick Zientarski invoked the name of Jesus Christ...

Has the man taken leave of his senses? Doesn't he care about others sensibilities? What century does he live in? What on earth is he doing taking hard earned freedoms and abusing them? Where is a KORAN when you need one? Someone, stop me, the sarcasm virus is taking me over.....aaaaaghh!

[milford421]

Happened to me last evening. Wished a storekeeper a Merry Christmas. He told me he was Jewish. I then wished him a Happy Hanukah, he wished me Merry Christmas.

Simple enough.

The only challenge I've directly received was by the muslim male who told me I couldn't say Merry Christmas to him or anyone else because "this is America and you're not allowed to do that"...

So who really is behind getting rid of Christmas and Hanukah?

[Dallas59]

I am so glad people fought back. Thank God Kerry was not elected.

[xcamel]

Sets up and interesting possible scenario...If suddenly tens of thousands of "egregious and shameful acknoledgents of a religious basis for Christmas" began to happen, the ACLU would implode.

Death by a thousand [nativity] cuts, as it were.

[Mathews]

"I have to tell you that Manhasset is in an uproar" over Kaiman's remarks, said Christine Roberts, who is Jewish and attended the ceremony with her two sons. "It really was the wrong thing to say at the wrong time. "

What in the heck did she expect? It was a CHRISTmas Tree Lighting.

[JohnLongIsland]

it's not the same nassau county i moved into twenty-five years ago.

[kitkat]

This country is beginning to wake up. The demand for religious freedom in stirring. Keep it up! Write or phone your stores, local government, etc., and keep the wave going. WE MUST SPEAK UP or lose our religious freedom rights.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The reaction also has stunned and humbled Kaiman. 'I overreacted and handled the situation poorly,' he acknowledged in an interview yesterday. Kaiman said he had arrived at the park expecting a more nonsectarian holiday event because it is sponsored by the Manhasset Park District, the town and the local Chamber of Commerce."

Wow. It's a Christmas Miracle. The dope realized his mistake and made good on it.

Maybe there is hope for the secularists out there? *Long Pause* Nah. ;)

[franky]

I wonder if O'Reilly will comment about it on his show. He lives in Manhasset.

[varon]

Kaiman, who is Jewish, said that his reaction to the blessing had nothing to do with his own faith, but related to his concern the town might be perceived as sponsoring a sectarian religious event. (My emphasis)

Perceived by whom and what would the punishment be?

It seems people are obeying a dictate issued by some invisible entity to eradicate Christmas from public places, events and speech? I am really curious just who do these people answer to or do they not even know themselves? Bunch of brainwashed zombies.

It frightens me in knowing how easily an enemy could get control of our public consciousness.