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Posted on 12/23/2005 8:05:34 PM PST by Coleus
(AgapePress) - The Catholic League is criticizing an administrator at California State University - Sacramento who informed her department that decorations for holidays such as Christmas and the Fourth of July are now banned from the office because they "represent discrimination" and "ethnic insensitivity."
The Catholic League recently obtained the memo sent out by the school's Director of the Office of Services to Students With Disabilities, Patricia Sonntag. Sacramento State verified that the holiday decorating ban exists in Sonntag's department; however, the university called her memo "well intentioned, but misguided."
But Kiera McCaffrey, communication director for the Catholic League, feels Sonntag has a phony view of tolerance. "What's really cute is ... the end of her memo telling people that they better not have up any decorations -- you know, you can't have up that flag on the Fourth of July -- it says, 'I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but it's time to start the new year differently,'" McCaffrey says. "So she's acknowledging that people are going to be offended by this, while at the same time saying that this policy is being implemented in order to avoid offending people."
The Catholic League spokeswoman calls the ban on holiday decorations "just ridiculous all the way through." And, she points out, the memo informing Sonntag's staff of the policy change did not stop at one or two popular holiday observances, but declared that "in order to avoid offending others, they would not display any sort of decorations for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentines, the Fourth of July, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter."
Moreover, the traditional celebrations Sonntag has deemed off limits are "just off the top of the list, so there could be any number of other holidays included in this ban," McCaffrey adds. She notes that Sacramento State officials have acknowledged the administrator's ban, but have distanced themselves from its administrator's memo.
“Let the Provost at Sacramento State, Ric Brown, know how you feel. He can be reached at ricb@csus.edu.”
Program Director: Patricia M. Sonntag, psonntag@csus.edu
I already wrote him and got a form letter back once this year....
No doubt this government school admits minorities/women before white males. Of course no discrimination in **that**...
She needs some happy pills >>
most liberals do, they are a very unhappy lot.
They constitute Europe's smallest minority group, and are regularly subjected to continuing persecution by folks in Patricia Sonntag's own ethnic group.
I'd suggest the impulse behind her effort to supprese Christmas decorations has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas, but rather the desire burning in her heart to mount a genocidal campaign against reindeer herders.
(NOTE: I said "decorations", not "practices")
The administrator mistakenly presumes that her personal code of marxism extends throughout her 'kingdom'...pretty stupid, and that's just for starters.
How people like this EVER get into educational systems is completely beyond me.
I can IMAGINE how they do, just saying, they should be weeded out of education long before they ever get to any and all levels of influence.
What this woman is saying is that ALL "national holidays" represent "ethnic insensitivity" and therefore, what's she advocating and trying to implement is her own anti-American use of public resources (the school, the pupils, her salary, her tools and utensils, etc.).
This woman is crazy or else she's advocating terrorism (the "America is ethnically insensitive" approach)...she isn't limiting her craziness to just Christmas but to all holidays (Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, etc.).
A sick person, she is.
"well-intentioned,but misguided"
NO, JUST STUPID
later read/ping.
I can hardly wait for her pronouncements concerning Cinco de Mayo.
La Raza will raise the roof, then burn what's left of it, down around her ears if she bans; everyone else will quietly whinge, if she doesn't.
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St. Patrick's day is the height of insensitivity, if you belong to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
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