[Libloather]

City employees could do whatever they wanted at their desks, Cohen said; the city building policy deals with areas where the public commonly treads.

I smell a double standard...

[napscoordinator]

Who cares!!! I never really noticed what cities do at Christmas (most of the time it looks cheesy anyway). What I do notice is what individual homes look like. As long as private homes can continue to decorate I am cool with it. I tell you some homes really do up christmas and that is fun!!!

[Scotsman will be Free]

Christmas isn’t about buddists, moslems, secularists, winter solstice, wiccans, etc. It’s about the birth of Christ, and is a christian holiday. This nonstop pretending that Christmas isn’t really Christmas is nonsense of the sort perpetrated by children in their fantasy games.

[muawiyah]

Public employees do not abandon their rights to religious liberty when they enter the front door of the courthouse.

At the same time no public employee (speaking of boss types here) has the right to dictate adherence to one or the othe standards regarding religion.

Even the business about keeping public areas devoid of religious materials has a very weak justification.

Frankly, this country needs a law that requires the imprisonment for 60 days for any elected or appointed public official who gives an order that uses the word religion (or variations thereof). This would include judges.

Make it an automatic sort of thing ~ they say the word "religion" while on the job. The mutawan comes around, picks them up, tosses them in a hole for 60 days, and then lets them out.

Enough times and these guys might get the idea that other folks' religious standards and beliefs are NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.

[upchuck]

"We wanted to keep the theme of light, and not have anything that might be construed as a religious symbol," Cohen said. "If a tree did have candy canes or red ribbons on it, that may appear to be a religious kind of representation, and we felt that the white lights would keep with the theme of light."

Oh, yeah! Candy canes and red ribbons play a BIG part in my religion. We celebrate candy cane month and the season of red ribbons.

BUMP to number three above. Ya nailed it!