Posted on 12/11/2006 8:14:08 AM PST by beaversmom
I think you are right.
Good grief! People can be so self-absorbed and taken with their own importance.
Yes they would. And Sea-Tac would lose. For better or worse the case law on this has been settled for years. If a public agency wants exclusively Christian displays during the Christian season, to the exclusion of others, they're out of luck.
But because religious artifacts may not be displayed in public any more, and people are religious artifacts to me, it is time to ban all people.
Everywhere.
That is not a direct quote, and he claims he made no such demand.
Yeah, OK. This is the equivalent of BJ Bill Clinton saying he "mistakenly" inhaled. The lawyer had every intention of threatening a lawsuit.
If his intentions were so PURE, why did he hire a lawyer? That's suspect, to me!
If SeaTac takes down all displays of anything, they don't lose. If the menorahs go up, somebody will sue. Probably the ACLU. Even with the SCOTUS ruling, they'll sue. The lawsuit itself is the weapon, not the verdict.
not where I was going. denying the right to display the menorah while displaying trees is the problem. that is what the court addressed in regards to trees and menorahs.
Thank you for the email address. I just sent him a message.... "Merry Christmas, Grinch."
For anyone who missed it, his email is rabbi@chaiseattle.com
Good one.
**" Please allow *this* Jew to go on record that this rabbi AND his lawyer are idiots."**
And please allow this Jew to add that the title of Rabbi OUGHT to indicate wisdom, sanctity, and holiness, not this kind of shameful arrogance.
The Port Authority's decision to bar the Menorah was illegal. The Holiday Trees (Sea-Tacs description, not mine) are irrelevant. Other than if a public agency is going to display a Christmas Tree, they're stuck with including a Menorah, or other religious symbols, if requested. Even if they call it a Holiday Tree.
Merry Christmas to you too.
I object to the word "clergy" and "clergyman" in this article. Those words developed and have been used up until the last 30 years or so to denote Christian ministers or priests, not Jewish rabbis or Moslem imams, or any other group's leader.
Just as you wouldn't call a Presbyterian minister a "priest" or a Catholic priest, a "rabbi" we shouldn't use "clergyman" for rabbi or some other non-Christian group.
It's remarkable. A normal person reading the piece and then the comments can only come to one of three conclusions. One, many don't read but jump to comment. Two, many are illiterate. Or, three, some find any reason to bash Jews.
It is very likely that appealing to such as the airport authority requires the help of a lawyer. This dragged on for years. It is possible in the heat of an discussion the lawyer threatened a suit about the lack of Menorah (there is nothing on the record to indicate, and this comment states, that he ever threatened a suit about the trees)
Then the airport authority when bananas and removed the trees.
The Rabbi is apologetic for whatever part he played in the airport authority losing its mind. Which reasonable person would contemplate the authority acting this way?
There is an identical issue in my home town. It continues to be argued and the Menorah is still missing and the Christmas tree is still present year after year. Mayor is Jewish.
Whatever happened, in this article, Medved is writing of the Rabbi's contrition for any pain caused even inadvertently by his actions.
But yet, in many of the responses we somehow fail to see the Christian forgiveness and charity that is so pronounced and celebrated around such trees. Why is that? I'll be charitable in the spirit of the season, I'll blame illiteracy.
At least you didn't say you were offended by the term. If that had been the case, I would direct you to hire a lawyer.
Because this is long settled case law. The court would have ordered Sea-Tac to display a Menorah. Obviously Sea-Tac didn't want to do that.
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