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'Nativity' booted from Ill. holiday fair
AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/27/06 | Don Babwin - ap

Posted on 11/27/2006 8:50:45 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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A nativity scene set up by a private group as part of a Christmas festival is seen Monday, Nov. 27, 2006, in Chicago. Worried that ads being shown on television screens for New Line Cinema's 'The Nativity Story' would offend non-Christians browsing in the traditional German Christkindlmarket in the heart of downtown, the city asked the German American Chamber of Commerce to reconsider the movie studio's sponsorship of the festival. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)


1 posted on 11/27/2006 8:50:47 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

I have to agree, letting the movie studio use the nativitiy scene to advertise a movie is kinda tacky.


2 posted on 11/27/2006 8:56:42 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: NormsRevenge
The city does not want to appear to endorse one religion over another, said Cindy Gatziolis

Can't be celebrating Christ's birth at Christmas, now can we? How come all the other religions get to hijack and/or destroy ours? (Hate crime alert)

3 posted on 11/27/2006 8:58:10 PM PST by madison10 (If my people, who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray...I will heal their land.)
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To: NormsRevenge; theothercheek; kiriath_jearim; Gadfly-At-Large; pryncessraych; aroostook war; ...

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If you want on (or off) this Catholic and Pro-Life ping list, let me know!


4 posted on 11/27/2006 8:58:30 PM PST by narses (St Thomas says "lex injusta non obligat.")
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To: NormsRevenge
...'The Nativity Story' would offend non-Christians browsing in the traditional German Christkindlmarket...

If non-Christians would be that easily offended by the Nativity story, then why would they be browsing in a Christmas festival that has "Christ" in its name and that already has a Nativity scene???

5 posted on 11/27/2006 9:00:43 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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To: NormsRevenge

At the end of the Thanksgiving Mass, we sang "America the Beautiful" as we have always done over the years. I was thinking of the possibility that, in the future, it may no longer be sung publicly in order not to "offend" certain individuals in our society.


6 posted on 11/27/2006 9:01:32 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Thank you! I thought I had lost my mind!

As for this...

...because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians. ...

What the HELL are they celebrating?

7 posted on 11/27/2006 9:04:09 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

I'll just scratch ya of my Christmas shopping list..

There!

:-)


8 posted on 11/27/2006 9:05:47 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Cornyn / Kyl in '08)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

Christkindlmarket Chicago
A German American Holiday Festival

Chicago's largest open-air Christmas festival was first held on Pioneer Court in 1996. Inspired by the famous German Christmas Market in Nuremberg, which dates back to 1545, Christkindlmarket brings a cherished German and European tradition with international flair and local color to Chicago. By special invitation of Mayor Richard M. Daley, Christkindlmarket moved to Daley Plaza in 1997. Christkindlmarket Chicago and the City of Chicago with the Mayor’s Office of Special Events have since shared a great partnership based on mutual cooperation.

Since 1999 Christkindlmarket’s Grand Opening is a special highlight during the celebration of the City of Chicago Annual Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony which always takes place on the First Friday after Thanksgiving Day. The Christkindl, the Christmas Fairy, is a cherished highlight during the Holiday Tree Lighting. The Christmas Fairy proclaims the opening of Christkindlmarket Chicago. The Christkindl is a holiday icon of the Christkindlesmarkt Nuremberg, Germany, Chicago’s sister market.

Popular from the very beginning, the two-week long Christmas extravaganza attracted more than 300,000 visitors in the first year. In 1997, Christkindlmarket Chicago became a four-week long event and the number of visitors quickly rose to 750,000.

Today, Christkindlmarket Chicago is the largest and most renowned Christmas/holiday market in the US attracting more than 1 million visitors from around the Chicagoland area, both coasts and around the world.


http://www.christkindlmarket.com/


9 posted on 11/27/2006 9:05:54 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: NormsRevenge

btt


10 posted on 11/27/2006 9:05:57 PM PST by Ciexyz (Satisfied owner of a 2007 Toyota Corolla.)
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To: Howlin

Thanks!


11 posted on 11/27/2006 9:08:49 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Cornyn / Kyl in '08)
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To: NormsRevenge
God forbid people actually find true joy and happiness in a world filled with miserable scrooges.

The truth is Satan knows his time is short, before he is locked up forever. He is getting very nervous and agitated.

12 posted on 11/27/2006 9:09:55 PM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.)
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'..because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians. ..."

These government thugs must be Nazi's....I HATE Illinois Nazi's!


13 posted on 11/27/2006 9:10:37 PM PST by Lawdoc (Pray for our troops and our President, and for honest dems.)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

Amen, brother............amen.


14 posted on 11/27/2006 9:13:24 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath; RightOnline

Again, what are "non-Christians" celebrating anyway?

I don't go to Yom Kippur events, nor do I attend Muslim whatever they have and demand they STOP because their beliefs might offend mine.

What am I missing here???


15 posted on 11/27/2006 9:17:43 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: NormsRevenge

When was anything banned or was asked not to do something because it might offend Christians? Really goes to show who the intolerant ones are. They are the ones who don't want atheists, or muskies offended.


16 posted on 11/27/2006 9:30:01 PM PST by taxesareforever (Never forget Matt Maupin)
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To: Howlin

Not to offend, but the ACLU does reflect Jewish thinking. Ironically the more they assimilate to liberal values, the less Jewish they become.


17 posted on 11/27/2006 9:33:48 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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Well, I should have probably left the Jews out of that question. It seems to me that it's the atheists and "others," not necessarily the Jews.

Thanks for pointing that out. (I'm very confused about why the Jews vote Democratic year in and year out.)


18 posted on 11/27/2006 9:36:39 PM PST by Howlin (Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
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To: NormsRevenge
Religion in America: Church and State [Brit Hume Special]
19 posted on 11/27/2006 9:38:45 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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Santa Claus, Indiana

Santa Claus is located just 7 miles south of Interstate 64 in Southern Indiana. According to legend, this small community, originally founded by German immigrants in the late 1840s, got its name on Christmas Eve in 1852.

20 posted on 11/27/2006 9:45:36 PM PST by Buddy B (MSgt Retired-USAF)
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