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Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky says he never asked that the trees be taken down, and the threat of a lawsuit was withdrawn.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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Is that the same place where they didn't want to show trailers for the Nativity?
Very cute devolve. I never know if there is some hidden meaning or Snoopy and Charlie just want a hot dog!!
Hi LJ. Maxine knows what to say and how to say it, lol.
"Sea-Tac always called them "Holiday Trees" "
All of this for a Jew candleholder! Or, at least that's what WE always call them.
WA State ping...JFK
Or you can be scrooge and look at it as just another day.
It's totally up to you:-)
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.
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.
Nathan's hotdogs are good hotdogs.
Snoopy and Charlie Brown love Nathan's hotdogs.
No deep dark secrets there huh?
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?
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. :(
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.
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?
This is pathological horse manure. Ramadan has already ended and the Wiccans? Get real.
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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.
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