[Albion Wilde]

I have no intention to offend you, and certainly respect and honor the many Jews who served honorably in WWII. I do point out that American Christians did not sit on their hands nor side with the Germans due to ethnicity, in spite of the minority of bigots who may have expressed these opinions. I have also heard my share of anti-Christian prejudice by those who conflate Hitler and the German people with Christ and Christians, or who call Bush "Hitler" for waging a war of liberation for oppressed people elsewhere.

And I know that freeing the Jews from the camps was not the primary purpose of our involvement in WWII, just as freeing the slaves was a secondary purpose of the American Civil War. But I continue to feel that anti-Christian prejudice expressed by American Jews is particularly offensive, if for no other reason than that we share a history of oppression in many cases (many of the founding American Christians came from sects that were persecuted in Europe), and we also share the divine challenge to revere the Ten Commandments. Yet if you check the names of the ACLU lawyers involved in many of the anti-Commandments and other religion-issue lawsuits, you may find as I have a disproportionate number of Jewish surnames. Whether they are religiously Jewish I do not know, but it seems unlikely, given the ideological disparity.

I am troubled, as are many religious Jews, by the many demographic reports involving the recent elections that continue to indicate that most Jews are secular, liberal and Democrat, and even uncaring about Israel or supportive of Palestinian aggression, regardless of the illogic of these positions. Having grown up in a largely Jewish area, I feel a sense of family with the Jews and Israel supporters in FR, and am glad we are here together.

What's clear to me is that Jews and Christians should be allies in the U.S. and in the world, not antagonists, and certainly not antagonists over religious expression in the U.S.

[Alouette]

demographic reports involving the recent elections that continue to indicate that most Jews are secular, liberal and Democrat

Jews who are religious, conservative and Republican have large families, while the secular, liberal, Democrats tend to contracept, abort and gay.

So tell me what direction those "demographic trends" are going?

[Plains Drifter]

WHY?

[Mamzelle]

re: In fact, another local rabbi and close personal friend, Daniel Lapin, has begun soliciting Jewish signatures on a petition to demand the return of the trees – and we will gladly recruit Jewish volunteers to provide free labor if that would help get the job done.)))

Poor Rabbi Lapin!! He's always stuck playing cleanup. He's the greatest.

[APRPEH]

its an interesting point you are making. The public Menorah's campaign initiated by Chabad-Lubavitch years ago was focused on Jews seeing these things and to strengthen them in their observance. Seeing these things in public is a reminder. it is specifically those Jews you associate with the ACLU who need this menorah display. as a gesture of good will lets start a Freeper campaign to purchase advertising on billboards all over the US that are around or next to ACLU offices to promote Judaism so that all those Jewish libs will be focused in on their sins..

[APRPEH]

and in addition to the campaign:

someone please explain to me why all the good conservatives here at FR have not been at the forefront to begin building a campaign of religious free expression in public which includes everyone. instead of turning this event into a shouting match, we could have turned it into a positive, unifying, conservative effort to promote the rights of individuals vs. dumb bureaucrats.