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. The rabbi was and is a jerk. He spent the day on TV demonstrating the fact.
I couldn't agree more.
It seems like everything the Democrats and their allies in the athiest ACLU do in pursuit of their agenda to turn America into a French-style, secular-socialist welfare state revolves around belittling and destroying American traditions and the traditional family unit.
It is a "culture war", alright. It is most definitely war. And incidents like this one, instigated this time by some lawsuit-happy rabbi, do just a little bit more to wake up the American public.
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.
Not quite. You might want to read this."The Puritans banned Christmas in New England. Even as late as 1851, a Cleveland minister nearly lost his job because he allowed a tree in his church. Schools in Boston stayed open on Christmas Day through 1870, and sometimes expelled students who stayed home."
From what I've read, Christmas trees were a German custom, and pretty much imited to German immigrants and their descendents in America until about 1850.