This rabbi is somewhat dishonest. He was on BOR last night and never mentioned anything about the lawsuit. Then again, BOR did not do his homework and made it sound as if the airport officials were all at fault. He never brought up the lawsuit either probably because he did not know about it. However, the rabbi made it sound as if he made a simple, polite request and the airport officials acted too hastily.
I saw that, too. He spun O'Reilly around like a dreidel.
He "threatened" a lawsuit, in the hopes that just saying he might sue would change their mind and they would allow him to put up the menorah (which they should have allowed anyway).
Instead, the Democrat supporter who runs the place decided to use the opportunity to make the Rabbi look bad and get what the democrat probably wanted anyway, by pulling down all the trees and blaming it on this "threatened lawsuit".
Now everybody's mad at the Rabbi, but all he wanted was to put up a Menorah in a public place to celebrate HIS religion, something that gets lost really in all the christmas and Kwanza stuff.
It's not like he wanted to run church services on the property -- he just wanted to put up some cultural symbols that would remind people of the jewish holiday celebration. That the ACLU fights this group, and that an airport (which obviously had no problem with christmas trees) would deny him a space, is the real story here.
And when he suggested he would fight for his right, the airport took an action which effectively shut him down -- he won't sue now, so he's lost his only avenue to get what he deserves to have -- in effect, the airport chief used public opinion against his adversary.
"This rabbi is somewhat dishonest. He was on BOR last night and never mentioned anything about the lawsuit. Then again, BOR did not do his homework and made it sound as if the airport officials were all at fault. He never brought up the lawsuit either probably because he did not know about it."
No lawsuit was ever actually filed. There was no lawsuit. Only the mention of one.