Christmas Trees Back on Some Airline Counters at Seattle Airport(Take That!)

FOX NEWS.COM ^ | December 11, 2006 | staff

[doug from upland]

Medved explained that the Menorah is a purely religious symbol. The Christmas tree is not.

[Gator113]

Uh, there was this priest, rabbi and an atheist that walk into a bar.... So the hooker says .... Oh never mind..."Hey barkeep, bring me another round"... ;>)

[gogogodzilla]

You smoking crack?

Who made the decision to remove the trees?

The Rabbi wanted a menorah up... not the trees down.

So, of course, to you... it makes sense to blame the Jew for the stupidity of the Gentile. Things really haven't changed much in the last 500 years.

Russian pogroms against the Jews when a Russian committed a crime. Polish pogroms against the Jews when a Pole committed a crime.

And now, mass anger against the Jew for the nigh criminal stupidity of the non-Jew director.

What are you, stuck on stupid?

:-P

[irishtenor]

I have. Quite a few. None of them, including the Rabbi in question, wanted the trees removed. They just wanted to be included, that's all.

[Mamzelle]

Lawyer. There was a lawyer.

[jerry639]

I for one am fed completely up with people who are looking to be insulted or hurt by traditions we have had in this country for hundreds of years.

Here is another individual that is also fed up with it. I don't look up the history of holidays. Just celebrate them as my family did back when I was growing up. Don't see how it hurts or insults anyone else.

[Lancey Howard]

Yeah, you're smoking crack.
Not into that. Goodbye.

[rzeznikj at stout]

...evenso, there is nothing to prevent the display of religious symbols. The only thing that's stopping the airport is political correctness.

End result: nobody can display anything out of a perceived fear of offending somebody. So everybody suffers. It's insane, really.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof

[kellynla]

earth to flyboy.

THE RABBI IS THE ONE WHO RETAINED A LAWYER AND FILED A LAWSUIT!
and the Port Authority removed the trees rather than be involved in a HUGE LAWSUIT!

gezzzzz...and I thought all you flyboys were smart! LMAO

now go find somebody else to "dog" from thread to thread other than me! pullllllezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[gogogodzilla]

So?

That the only way to get a bureaucrat to to anything...

[Mamzelle]

He doesn't like to notice that Rabbi hired lawyer to hold Christmas trees hostage...then got his stupid bluff called and ended up rightfully getting the blame...

[gogogodzilla]

Earth to nutcase...

THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO LAWSUIT HAD A MENORAH BEEN ALLOWED UP!

So, of course, the nutball of a director chose to take down the trees.

For which you blame the Rabbi.

And yeah, us flyboys are smart... it's too bad you don't have the ability to notice it.

:-P

[hole_n_one]

THE RABBI IS THE ONE WHO RETAINED A LAWYER AND FILED A LAWSUIT!

For the sake of accuracy, a lawsuit has yet to be filed, it was merely threatened.

[gcruse]

Why pick on atheists? As long our taxes aren't paying for your piety, who cares?

[Mamzelle]

If you and Betancourt played poker, I'm betting that you'd lose. The Rabbi sure did.

[Suzy Quzy]

If ther's a Nativity scene, there must be a Menorah....both being the RELIGIOUS symbols of the season.

[HOTTIEBOY]

Yes.The war on Christmas!

They want a war, we'll give it to them.

This speaks volumes that the complacent Christians have just about had enough. We've been quiet and stepped back tried not to hurt anyones feeeeeelings. You can only push someone so far....

[RJL]

Please tell me you realize that "holiday" is a contraction for "holy day".

Yeah, a contraction is a shortened form of a word.

You see "Holy day" has seven letters and the contraction "holiday" has seven letters...

Ahhh... nevermind.

[Tailback]

I agree, I'm a Protestant Christian but I'd pitch in money to buy a nice Menorah if a co-worker was Jewish and asked for some reciprocity. I'd be more than happy to have a Menorah side by side with a Christmas tree.

This story is about removing religion from the Holidays.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

You'd HATE the US Constitution then.