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University Adminstrator declares Christmas "forbidden"
CNSnews.com ^ | 12-16-05 | Nathan Burchfiel

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; antitheist; campuscommies; campusradicals; christmas; csu; godhaters; jesushaters; jesusiscoming; moralabsolutes; ninthcircleofhell; patriciasonntag; pcidiocy; psychoticbroad; sonntag; stuckinsin; terroristwithin; waronchristmas
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To: stinkerpot65

She looks like Patty Murray's twin sister.


101 posted on 12/18/2005 10:54:57 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: FeeinTennessee

Forbidden, eh? Got her own little dictatorship going?


102 posted on 12/18/2005 10:57:16 PM PST by Just Lori (End the leftist occupation of America!)
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To: John Will

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).


103 posted on 12/18/2005 10:57:52 PM PST by Windsong (Jesus Saves, but Buddha makes incremental backups)
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To: FeeinTennessee


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"?


104 posted on 12/18/2005 11:04:49 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: msf92497
"Patricia Sonntag, director of the Office of Services to Students with Disabilities,"

Her disability is obvious.

I'd say more, except it would get me banned (again).




Is being brainless a disability?? If it is, Sonntag is disabled, MENTALLY.
105 posted on 12/18/2005 11:08:39 PM PST by antiunion person (Don't let anyone separate you from your hard earned money.)
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Hopefully she will go the way of her sister in arms Susan (White Race Cancer) Sontag soon enuff.

same ol crap


106 posted on 12/18/2005 11:12:00 PM PST by wardaddy (They took most of my Dixie heritage......they'll have to take Christmas from my cold dead hands)
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To: wardaddy

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.


107 posted on 12/18/2005 11:31:47 PM PST by clooney4824
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To: clooney4824

one has to wonder how folks with such obvious pathological disorders get hired.


108 posted on 12/18/2005 11:38:11 PM PST by wardaddy (They took most of my Dixie heritage......they'll have to take Christmas from my cold dead hands)
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To: clooney4824

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


109 posted on 12/18/2005 11:39:34 PM PST by njpa (http://www.csus.edu/hornet/archive/fall98/number12/news04.html)
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To: FeeinTennessee
Who could be this anti-American?!

Who could be this dense?!
110 posted on 12/19/2005 12:46:08 AM PST by caveat emptor
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To: FeeinTennessee
A receptionist in Sonntag's office told Cybercast News Service that Sonntage was on vacation.

Leave her alone. She's still in Christmas vacation.

111 posted on 12/19/2005 1:11:29 AM PST by paudio (Is it OK to say Merry Christmas to you...?)
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To: All

What's the address? Let's all send a Christmas card. No "Season's greetings", no way: "MERRY CHRISTMAS".


112 posted on 12/19/2005 2:10:06 AM PST by Bazooka (Just say what you think. They hate our guts anyway.)
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To: FeeinTennessee

If only Lex Luthor would have succeded in dropping California into the ocean...(confusing reality & fiction again...)


113 posted on 12/19/2005 2:37:57 AM PST by Darth Dan
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To: atomic conspiracy
I applaud you.

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.

114 posted on 12/19/2005 2:45:59 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Global warming? Bring It On....)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Oh, and Happy Hannukah.


115 posted on 12/19/2005 2:46:53 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Global warming? Bring It On....)
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To: ExGeeEye

I may have mispelled that. Please take note of the early hour :)


116 posted on 12/19/2005 2:50:49 AM PST by ExGeeEye (Global warming? Bring It On....)
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To: ExGeeEye

"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.


117 posted on 12/19/2005 5:14:54 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Islamo-terrorists: Strike force of the MSM)
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To: demlosers

Thanks (..also to whoever else put it up) for the email address to write her.


118 posted on 12/19/2005 12:00:51 PM PST by FeeinTennessee (http://hometown.aol.com/feereports/feepolitics.html)
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To: All

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?


119 posted on 12/27/2005 5:56:59 PM PST by Bazooka (Just say what you think. They hate our guts anyway.)
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