Posted on 12/18/2005 8:46:42 PM PST by FeeinTennessee
University Administrator Declares Christmas 'Forbidden' By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Correspondent December 16, 2005
(CNSNews.com) - An administrator at California State University, Sacramento has banned decorations pertaining to Christmas and the 4th of July, among other holidays, from her office because they represent "religious discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity."
"Time has come to recognize that religious discrimination, as well as ethnic insensitivity to certain holidays, is forbidden," Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities, stated in the directive she e-mailed to members of her staff on Dec. 9.
Cybercast News Service obtained the directive from the non-profit Catholic League, which "defends the right of Catholics ... to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination," according to its website. The content of the e-mail was confirmed by the university.
The memo specifically names Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine's Day, the 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day and Easter as the most offensive holidays, but Sonntag adds that they are "off the top of the list," implying that there may be others.
She wrote that the ban was being implemented "in order to avoid offending someone else" because Sacramento State is "a secular university and we are a public service area that has a diverse employee and student populations [sic] even in our private offices."
Sonntag noted that she is "the worst offender and celebrant," and apologized "if this offends anyone, but it is time to start the new year differently."
A Nov. 28 profile of Sonntag in the university's faculty and staff newsletter stated that she and her office "Have been the cornerstone of equality and progress here on campus."
But the university associate vice president for public affairs, Frank Whitlatch, distanced the university from Sonntag's policy, saying in a prepared statement that it "was well-intentioned but strays from the established practice."
He stated that the university "has no guidelines prohibiting holiday decorations," aside from the responsibility of supervisors, "to ensure that employees do not spend an unreasonable amount of work time decorating."
Whitlatch echoed Sonntag's sentiments that Sacramento State "is a public entity ... and employees do not endorse specific religious beliefs while on the job."
Catholic League president Bill Donohue called the policy a violation of free speech rights. "It never occurs to these secular supremacists that it is their aversion to anything religious - or patriotic - that accounts for their desire to muzzle free speech."
A receptionist in Sonntag's office told Cybercast News Service that Sonntage was on vacation. The office's assistant director, Teresa Mendick, did not return calls requesting comment for this article.
She looks like Patty Murray's twin sister.
Forbidden, eh? Got her own little dictatorship going?
Nothing wrong with the Humanities, as I've had plenty of profs in that arena way back when who were staunchly conservative. Unless your the type who would like to see all universities everywhere burned to the ground? (which coincidentally is how many of the Nazis felt).
The First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF"
I'm sorry, wouldn't banning most of these holidays violate the highlighted section? Or can we also throw out the constitution for "racial insensitivity"?
Hopefully she will go the way of her sister in arms Susan (White Race Cancer) Sontag soon enuff.
same ol crap
I emailed the ugly,fat,dumb idiot and stated that I am ashamed to say I graduated from Sac State... with sub-humans like her on the staff.
one has to wonder how folks with such obvious pathological disorders get hired.
Sonntag refused to answer any questions regarding this matter.
"I was told by Sonntag that I could not use the computers that are designated for disabled students because they are all in one room and I would bother the other students," said Shaw. "I can't do research on the Internet and I can't turn in assignment that instructors want turned in by email."
http://www.csus.edu/hornet/archive/fall98/number12/news04.html
Leave her alone. She's still in Christmas vacation.
What's the address? Let's all send a Christmas card. No "Season's greetings", no way: "MERRY CHRISTMAS".
If only Lex Luthor would have succeded in dropping California into the ocean...(confusing reality & fiction again...)
Please note, this is not the same as "giving you the clap" :)
If you are yourself the Jewish owner of the business, I redouble my applause.
Oh, and Happy Hannukah.
I may have mispelled that. Please take note of the early hour :)
"If you are yourself the Jewish owner of the business, I redouble my applause."
"Oh, and Happy Hannukah"
I am, and many thanks. I have absolutely had it with these fascist control-freaks pretending to promote "diversity" and "tolerance" while they actually do the opposite. They are turning our society into a collection of warring tribes, each with its own place in the pecking order of victimhood and you-know-who at the bottom of the food chain.
I think the call for a "Jewish History Month" was the last straw. This came on the same day that the distinguished actor Morgan Freeman condemned Black History month as "ridiculous" and "divisive." He is right, we are rapidly running out of months. In the meantime, what happened to "One nation under God?" Banned by multi-cultists because they take it as an "establishment of religion." How bizarre, and authoritarian.
Thanks (..also to whoever else put it up) for the email address to write her.
I'd say it's OK to rock up for class, wearing a burka, a veil or a turban.
California State Uneiversity, eh? Do they actually know who is funding that place?
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