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Full-Size Christmas Trees to Return to Seattle Airport [all trees going back up!]
Fox News Online ^ | 12/12/06 | AP

Posted on 12/11/2006 10:13:29 PM PST by TheBigB

SEATAC, Wash. — The Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Port of Seattle officials had ordered the trees taken down over the weekend after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if a menorah wasn't also displayed at the airport.

Airport officials say they took that action out of concern that if they allowed the addition of a menorah, they would also have to display symbols of other religions and cultures, which was not something airport workers had time for during the busiest travel season of the year.

Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky says he never asked that the trees be taken down, and the threat of a lawsuit was withdrawn.

With the threat of the lawsuit gone, airport spokesman Bob Parker says all 14 trees will go back up -- hopefully by tomorrow morning.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: airport; antichristian; bahumbug; bigotry; christmas; culturewar; freep; freeping; hannukah; menorah; merrychristmas; onepercent; portofseattle; rabid; scrooge; seatac; seattle; suecrazy; suescenareo; waronchristmas; xmas
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To: RushCrush

Is that the same place where they didn't want to show trailers for the Nativity?


301 posted on 12/12/2006 2:10:17 PM PST by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: devolve

Very cute devolve. I never know if there is some hidden meaning or Snoopy and Charlie just want a hot dog!!


302 posted on 12/12/2006 2:11:27 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: Lady Jag

Hi LJ. Maxine knows what to say and how to say it, lol.


303 posted on 12/12/2006 2:15:51 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

"Sea-Tac always called them "Holiday Trees" "

All of this for a Jew candleholder! Or, at least that's what WE always call them.


304 posted on 12/12/2006 2:18:29 PM PST by rippingmyhairout (Some things that make you go "hmmmmmm")
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To: TheBigB; Maynerd; Bobsvainbabblings; moneypenny; Kaylee Frye; Clintonfatigued; wallcrawlr; ...

WA State ping...JFK


305 posted on 12/12/2006 2:18:51 PM PST by BADROTOFINGER (Life sucks. Get a helmet.)
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To: GovernmentIsTheProblem
You can benefit by just enjoying the day....the music, the food, the festivities.

Or you can be scrooge and look at it as just another day.

It's totally up to you:-)

306 posted on 12/12/2006 2:21:41 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: livius
He knew perfectly well. The group he is part of, the Lubavitchers, goes around suing different places to put up menorahs every year, and they usually win. I doubt he paid for that lawyer himself.

Sounds like you have a problem with Jews wanting to display their faith and religious icons in public places...
307 posted on 12/12/2006 2:40:21 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative. Woe befalls any who forget that.)
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To: livius

What lawsuit?

The threatened lawsuit would have only kicked in if the director didn't allow Chabad to put up a menorah.

Or are you saying that placing Jewish religious icons in a public place should be verboten, and only Christian ones allowed?

Imagine what would have happened if the director had seen the demand, shrugged, and said, "Okay, go ahead and put up a menorah."

A lawsuit? The removal of the Christmas trees? Hmmmm, no, none of that would have happened.

But then, we'd have a menorah in the Seattle airport.

And the director... and those that support his decision... seem to have a problem with that.


308 posted on 12/12/2006 2:46:45 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative. Woe befalls any who forget that.)
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To: #1CTYankee

They're the Muslim '30-60 days after Ramadan' Trees.

And to think, so many Americans are sucked each year into buying Islamic icons and placing them into their homes.


309 posted on 12/12/2006 2:56:49 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative. Woe befalls any who forget that.)
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To: potlatch


Nathan's hotdogs are good hotdogs.

Snoopy and Charlie Brown love Nathan's hotdogs.


310 posted on 12/12/2006 3:00:17 PM PST by devolve ( ....terminate_liberal_media_&_neocoms)
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To: devolve

No deep dark secrets there huh?


311 posted on 12/12/2006 3:02:20 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: conservative blonde

So why are so many Christians getting so ticked off that some non-religious, non-Christian, non-holiday specific, plastic trees where removed from the Seattle airport?


312 posted on 12/12/2006 3:13:07 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative. Woe befalls any who forget that.)
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To: Alouette

Alouette, there is an extremely vocal group of people here who value rigidity and stupidity over reason. And they have really come out of the woodwork over this issue.

The problem has been fixed but they still want to flog the rabbi through the fleet. They're a bunch of freaking retards and they're poisoning the well.

This is making me physically ill. :(


313 posted on 12/12/2006 3:21:00 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: gogogodzilla

The director said she didn't want to play cultural anthropologist - and I think she was right. The Muslims, the wiccans and everybody else in the universe would have been right along behind the Lubavitchers...

That said, a "Christmas" tree is simply a symbol of the traditional American winter holiday and is not a religious symbol - many Christian groups reject Christmas trees, and Catholics outside of the northern European countries object to them because they regard them as merely commercial symbols, promoted by American and British merchandisers.

A menorah is a religious symbol; no American sees anything in it except a reference to a religion. Personally, that doesn't bother me. But if we are going to prevent Christians from putting up overtly Christian symbols - a creche, a cross, etc. - then Jews (or Muslims or any other group) should also not be able to put up a religious symbol.


314 posted on 12/12/2006 3:22:43 PM PST by livius
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To: EveningStar
there is an extremely vocal group of people here who value rigidity and stupidity over reason.




315 posted on 12/12/2006 3:26:46 PM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 104-105)
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To: livius

A menorah is a religious symbol; no American sees anything in it except a reference to a religion. Personally, that doesn't bother me. But if we are going to prevent Christians from putting up overtly Christian symbols - a creche, a cross, etc. - then Jews (or Muslims or any other group) should also not be able to put up a religious symbol.

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Ever occur to you that had Christians backed the placement of a menorah (instead of going bat-sh@t crazy over it), it would have opened the door for other religious icons, such as a manger?


316 posted on 12/12/2006 3:27:39 PM PST by gogogodzilla (Republicans only win if they are conservative. Woe befalls any who forget that.)
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To: livius; gogogodzilla
The director said she didn't want to play cultural anthropologist - and I think she was right. The Muslims, the wiccans and everybody else in the universe would have been right along behind the Lubavitchers...

This is pathological horse manure. Ramadan has already ended and the Wiccans? Get real.
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317 posted on 12/12/2006 3:30:21 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Alouette

:)


318 posted on 12/12/2006 3:31:32 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: gogogodzilla; livius
Ever occur to you that had Christians backed the placement of a menorah (instead of going bat-sh@t crazy over it), it would have opened the door for other religious icons, such as a manger?

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319 posted on 12/12/2006 3:34:31 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: djf; mrsmith
He's a Rabbi....If a Catholic priest were to walk in there and demand a Cross be put up, does anybody else think it kinda, sorta, maybe or even MIGHT be religious in nature?

I don't think there's any question that a Menorah is religious in nature. The secular qualities the courts attach to the Menorah are ludicrous.

My disagreement with mrsmith, and we'll have to agree to disagree, pertains to the religious nature of the Holiday Tree, which has no religious connection, which I'd call a Christmas Tree, still retaining some Christian symbolism.

Clearly a Priest demanding a Cross be put up would also be making a religious statement. As the Menorah does, as the Holiday Tree doesn't.

320 posted on 12/12/2006 3:38:06 PM PST by SJackson (had to move the national debate from whether to stay the course to how do we start down the path out)
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