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Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky says he never asked that the trees be taken down, and the threat of a lawsuit was withdrawn.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

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


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: TheBigB
E-MAIL ALERT

BREAKING NEWS

Monday, December 11, 2006 8:07 PM

The Christmas Trees are returning to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Port of Seattle officials said they decided tonight to put the trees back up after Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky and his Central Organization for Jewish Education Lubavitch said they would not file a threatened lawsuit.

For more, see http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003473083_webtrees11.html


21 posted on 12/11/2006 11:08:56 PM PST by XR7
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To: onyx; devolve; potlatch; bitt; PhilDragoo; Smartass; daviscupper; beaversmom

SeaTac trees return ping!


22 posted on 12/11/2006 11:11:20 PM PST by ntnychik
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Wil, I'd like to have trees, candles, singing, gifts and smiling faces. I don't want lawsuits and the hate that comes with them. I don't want lawyers and the ACLU. I want Peace On Earth, but, I guess that is nigh on to impossible, these days.

From later in the article:

Last year, a Catholic lawmaker from Spokane and his supporters stirred up a hornets' nest when they sang Christmas carols in front of the giant holiday tree that dominates the Capitol rotunda in Olympia. Rep. John Ahern, a Republican, said the Washington-grown fir is a holiday tree, not a Christmas tree.

What's up with that? Why would singing carols generate controversy?

23 posted on 12/11/2006 11:23:26 PM PST by CedarDave
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To: potlatch; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; dixiechick2000; Lady Jag; Liz; Kathy in Alaska




24 posted on 12/11/2006 11:25:09 PM PST by devolve ( ....terminate_liberal_media_&_neocoms)
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To: devolve

That's cute!


25 posted on 12/11/2006 11:27:07 PM PST by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: TheBigB; All

Related threads:

Christmas Trees Back on Some Airline Counters at Seattle Airport(Take That!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752048/posts

Jews Strive to Restore Sea-Tac Airport's Christmas Trees
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752025/posts

Airport removes Christmas trees to avoid suit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751814/posts

Did A Lone Rabbi Mean to Ban Christmas Trees?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751706/posts

Airport's trees stoking "war on Christmas". (SEATAC Update)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751685/posts


26 posted on 12/11/2006 11:27:38 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: TXBubba

ping


27 posted on 12/11/2006 11:28:01 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: TheBigB

aaaarrrrrrrrrrgggghhhhhhhh


28 posted on 12/11/2006 11:30:26 PM PST by Biscuit85 (I hate CNN!)
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To: beaversmom

Wash. Airline Workers Defy Tree Ban (SEA-TAC SAGA UPDATE)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752111/posts

Xmas trees removed from Sea-Tac Airport [Scrooge barf alert]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751183/posts


29 posted on 12/11/2006 11:33:04 PM PST by XR7
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To: potlatch


And subtle!


30 posted on 12/11/2006 11:36:02 PM PST by devolve ( ....terminate_liberal_media_&_neocoms)
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To: TheBigB

Absolutely ridiculous to have taken the down to start with.


31 posted on 12/12/2006 12:00:43 AM PST by newzjunkey (Prepare Now! - Coming 1-20-09, President Rodham)
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To: TheBigB

Now that the trees are back up, he can get on with his lawsuit.


32 posted on 12/12/2006 12:13:12 AM PST by PAR35
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To: newzjunkey

Well, there's a nice way to ask for something, and a not-so-nice way.

My neighbor might say "Hey, your grass is getting a little up there, maybe this weekend we can both cut our lawns and then have a brew after."

Or he could say "Cut your grass this weekend or I'm comin over there with a 2by4"


33 posted on 12/12/2006 12:14:23 AM PST by djf (They have their place. We have our place. WAKE UP!! They want to turn our place into their place!!!)
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To: All

Let each group (Jews, Athiests, Pagans, etc.) be allowed to hang one ornament on the trees.


34 posted on 12/12/2006 12:19:09 AM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: devolve

The Peanuts Gang, specifically Linus, to public:

Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
Luke 2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
Luke 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Luke 2:11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.


35 posted on 12/12/2006 12:59:41 AM PST by Rte66
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To: moehoward
No wonder he started to change his story.

Count me as one who agreed with removing the trees. It called the bluff on this rabid rabbi. The incident went nationwide, and the country let him know he made a BIG mistake. He was "devastated" that his threat of a lawsuit backfired on him. As the old expression goes, he was forced to "eat crow". Good. I hope it made him sick.

36 posted on 12/12/2006 1:23:26 AM PST by IIntense
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To: rlmorel

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.


37 posted on 12/12/2006 3:06:55 AM PST by livius
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To: TheBigB
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.

So they took all the trees down and are putting them back up again? They found time for all that?

38 posted on 12/12/2006 3:17:00 AM PST by DaveMSmith ("Heaven is the only basis for our continued existence".)
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To: IIntense
As the old expression goes, he was forced to "eat crow".

Reckon Kosher Krow is any better?

39 posted on 12/12/2006 3:17:18 AM PST by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: livius
The group he is part of, the Lubavitchers, goes around suing different places to put up menorahs every year, and they usually win.

Then his claim of in the heat of the argument he included the threat of a lawsuit is a lie? It's bad enough when the average Joe lies. But people of faith? C'mon! Any wonder religion gets a black eye.

40 posted on 12/12/2006 3:25:01 AM PST by joesbucks
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