Jewish Jews and religious Christians have no objection to public dispalys of each other's faiths. Its the athiests anti religious crowd thatsometimes pretends to be religious when it suits them politically that have an issue. I'd be willing to bet that Joan Goldstein is hardly even observant.
One thing that never gets mentioned about banning religious displays.Religious people are tax payers too and are therefore just as entitled to use public property as those who are not religious.Same can be said for taxing religious people or even institutions and using the money to pay for public school busses or funding those institutions in any way.If you people want a separation of church and state then it must be complete and total and without any funding from religious people or their institutions!
"We should have as much separation of church and state as possible," she added. Joan Goldstein, a resident for more than 30 years, offered another solution. "The menorah is a Jewish symbol that I light in my home. I don't need to see one in Borough Hall," she said. "If we decide to do this, why don't we be civic minded and find another place to put a religious display, on private property."
Excuse me, madam, but don't you deduct your mortgage interest and property taxes on your Federal tax return?
Aha, your so-called private property is in reality government-subsidised. If you really want as much separation of church and state as possible, that is definitely an issue.
Holiday displays don't divide us - liberals do.
Holiday displays are not what divides us. What divides us is when courts and ACLU and idiots take the offense of one retard and start banning the freedom of the many.
If one idiot is offended by a cross or a menora,or the flag or the word God ,that is no reason to ban such a thing from the masses. Its time that one person was told to go crap in their hat and get a friggin life.
The only people I know who have a problem with "holiday displays" are aethists and the jugheads down at the aCLU (I know, they're the same thing). It's time for Congress to get off it's collective @$$ and do one of their world famous "probes" of the aCLU and find out why they are conducting a Naziesque blitzkrieg against people of faith and depriving them of their rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The morons at the aCLU are always warning us that our "liberties" and "rights" are being taking away while they are in court having all of our First Amendment rights taken away from us.
Big issue in my town as well.
Some Jews complaining about the "winter festival tree", and demanded a menorah at town hall.
I wrote the editor of the local rag, that I have no problem with a menorah, or even a dull sword for the muzzies to gather around to chant their prayers, even a Festivus tree, to gather around to watch Seinfeld re-runs, as long as:
The "winter festival" events become Christmas events, and carols can be sung in our schools as well as any other seasonal music.
Just keep repeating, Diversity is our strengthn
Just keep repeating, Diversity is our strengthn
Go ahead and display a menorah. They always look dull compared to the beautiful Christmas decorations.