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.
If you were to establish, say, the Baptist church as an official U.S. religion, but didn't require people to believe it, just to practice it, there would still be a problem. Instead, we are establishing atheism. We don't require people to believe it, just to practice it. They think it's "neutrality" but it's not.
Either that or she has an aversion to burnt weinies and beer with watermellon for dessert.
Here's her email address:
Program Director: Patricia M. Sonntag, psonntag@csus.edu
From: http://www.csus.edu/sswd/staff.html
I like your tag line. Apropos especially for this thread.
I'm sure we can all figure out her "reasoning" as to why everything is offensive:
Christmas = Evil monotheistic holiday being imposed on the majority of Christians who are too stupid to realize they are being controlled by the Pope and Jerry Falwell.
Thanksgiving = Celebration of American genocide against the Native Americans. And that giving thanks to God business is too exclusivist.
Halloween = Breeders allowing their children to have fun -- very offensive.
Valentine's Day = Heterosexist, homophobic male domination of women.
4th of July = First American imperialist war of aggression.
Saint Patrick's Day = Something Catholic -- we can't allow that! And Irish people are too white to deserve a holiday.
Easter = Affirmation of life -- what could be more offensive?
It's her office, its her choice.
94% of the US believes in God, however, to not offend the 6% who do not believe in God, the government has taken to position they will discriminate against the 94%. They could care less is you are offended, as you are to show religious tolerance, and turn the other cheek.
This is why the retailers have taken their crazy anti-Christmas campaigns today. Great marketing ploy!-- Offend 94% of your customer, while pleasing the other 6%. I could never make it as a marketing exec, because I am not smart enough to come up with asinine ideas such as this. (sarcasm)
Hey Patty........write this down.........you're a drooling idiot who doesn't deserve to wash my dishes. Think it's time you hightail it to some 'superior' Third World s**thole where you can revel in your stupidity; you sure as hell are neither wanted nor needed here.
So am I to assume she'll be hard at work on those days instead of taking the day off??
The only thing more hateful than the majority terrorizing the minority through brutal force, is allowing the minority to terrorize the majority through no mechanism whatsoever other than their own insanity.
Are you unable to see that the only moral force supporting you is the tenuous one that somehow, being handicapped, gives you a moral soap bubble that is about to burst... ?
LOL!!!
I forbid you to celebrate a holiday!
Who do these freakish Libby's think they are!
Well. That explains everything. Anti-life abortion reject, near as I can tell. Mad as a hatter too.
I do believe, that the only persons in history to use the word "forbidden" with a straight face are those like Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Emperor Bokassa, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse and seriously mentally disturbed very tiny folk, some with obscure small positions of authority...
I predict that, if challenged, this sad excuse for a real person will self-destruct within months.
Good riddance!
It's conceivable that this memo is a sarcastic reaction to some multi-cult power-freak taking offense at her Christmas decorations but, knowing the sub-human stupidity and drunken power lust of academic administrators first-hand, I suspect that it is authentic.
Time to chop off her head and stuff it with worms.
'We hold ...that all men are created EQUAL;....'
Ahhh:'...all MEN are created equal;......'
Must be it.
Libs are just miserable people - and they want everyone to be just as miserable as they are.They're all just like the Grinch - they just don't get it!
And I forbid any further donations, grants, etc. to California State University.
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