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Colorado city considers ban on red and green Christmas lights
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Posted on 11/20/2007 6:13:12 AM PST by Gopher Broke

A Colorado city is considering a plan that one attorney calls the epitome of the war against Christmas.

Tonight, the Fort Collins City Council will meet and decide the fate of a task force report that urges the city to decorate with white lights, winter symbols not traditionally associated with any particular holiday, and unadorned garlands of greenery. City staffers are also encouraged to remove ornaments or stars from trees and red ribbons from wreaths.

Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, says the task force is seriously misguided. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous that anyone would consider banning red and green because they are associated with Christmas, because they believe that anything associated with Christmas, being religious, has to be banned," he says. "I think this absurdity really underscores the extent to which this war against Christmas has escalated."

The Orlando, Florida-based legal group reports it has issued a letter warning the city council that its censorship of certain Christmas decorations is not well-grounded in legal precedent.

In a press release, Staver wonders if the next step will be to ban the giving of gifts because that act is associated with Christmas. "It is sad and unfortunate that some people are intent on eliminating Christmas because of its Christian theme," the attorney states. "People from around the country ought to call the Fort Collins City Council and protest the ridiculous recommendation of the Holiday Display Task Force.”

Staver points out that the task force included a representative from the American Civil Liberties Union, but neglected to include the input of any other legal organization that Liberty Counsel insists could have presented a "balancing viewpoint." Meanwhile, the local sheriff reportedly has vowed to decorate a Christmas tree -- with multicolored lights -- regardless of the council's decision.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: antichristian; christmas; citycouncil; fortcollins; grinch; insanity; pc; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2007
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To: Gopher Broke
So how are they going to get rid of the traffic problem if they ban red and green lights? They must have the worst city engineer in the USA. I have had to stop three times at the same light!! The lights are designed to impede traffic not to facilitate the flow.

I will do my part. I will not participate in your red lights by not going to Ft. Collins. They are just a left wing hate mongering city any way. Hey Ft. Collins “Taze this Worship Christ!”

21 posted on 11/20/2007 6:27:52 AM PST by mountainlyons (Hard core conservative)
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To: 3AngelaD

Sounds like the California transplants are trying to take over Colorado.


22 posted on 11/20/2007 6:28:00 AM PST by Sunshine Sister
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
If they add gold lights (to the red and green) they cover Kwanzaa; add blue and white you got Chanukah covered. But wait, isn’t that a STRING OF MULTI-COLORED LIGHTS?!?!?!?!?

Ah, yes. Diversity Lights!

23 posted on 11/20/2007 6:29:09 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: alicewonders
Christians really need to “go on strike” for Christmas & let the merchants and everyone else see that they need to be careful what they wish for.

We have. That's why KMart, Home Depot and Lowes (to name a few) have suddenly "got religion" and started selling Christmas trees instead of "Holiday Trees" and they have started wishing their customers "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".

24 posted on 11/20/2007 6:29:56 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Gopher Broke
local sheriff reportedly has vowed to decorate a Christmas tree -- with multicolored lights -- regardless of the council's decision.

This could get interesting. If this goes down and the sheriff draws a line in the sand over this and there is any action to take down the tree people could end up in jail.

25 posted on 11/20/2007 6:30:10 AM PST by painter (Oval Office, Fred. Might be something you ought to think about.)
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To: mtbopfuyn
Why no, Mr. Taskforce Officer. I’m not celebrating Christmas, that’s our family tree and those red and green chili pepper lights are in support of illegal aliens.

I was thinking communists and ecowhackos, but in the same vein...

So ice and snow should be banned because someone, somewhere, worships something associated with it, too. (The Gorite church of warmth-hating fruitcakes)

26 posted on 11/20/2007 6:34:40 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Hoodlum91

Red, Green and White...also the color of the Italian flag.


27 posted on 11/20/2007 6:37:28 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: Army Air Corps

But do they have a poll?


28 posted on 11/20/2007 6:37:59 AM PST by svcw (There is no plan B.)
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To: Gopher Broke

In true “Animal Farm” logic Freedom of Religion has now become Freedom From Religion. The Constitution be damned.


29 posted on 11/20/2007 6:39:19 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: Sunshine Sister
Colorado was getting 'Californicated' in the '70s

Rocky Mountain High....was the marching song

30 posted on 11/20/2007 6:39:23 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: svcw

Make sure that it is an aluminum pole.


31 posted on 11/20/2007 6:39:55 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
Just tell them that your are celebrating Festivus.

What about the rest of us who don't want to celebrate Festivus?

32 posted on 11/20/2007 6:41:28 AM PST by Disambiguator (Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
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To: Disambiguator
I imagine that it would be okay so long as you do not have any coloured lights...or a tree...or any carols...or any fun...
33 posted on 11/20/2007 6:44:24 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: alicewonders

That is an interesting approach.


34 posted on 11/20/2007 6:45:48 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: Gopher Broke

I wonder if this “task force” wears brown shirts?


35 posted on 11/20/2007 6:45:53 AM PST by SwatTeam
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To: laotzu
Brother wants to see some black lights.

Black lights are like, way cool, man! But then we'd have to all wear white shirts for the full effect and that brings us back to whitey again.

36 posted on 11/20/2007 6:46:35 AM PST by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: alicewonders

You and your family are free to do just that if that is what you want.


37 posted on 11/20/2007 6:47:50 AM PST by SwatTeam
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To: SwatTeam
I wonder if this “task force” wears brown shirts?

Check out this thread. CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC has researched the members. He is also going to attempt to speak at the public meeting tonight.

38 posted on 11/20/2007 6:51:06 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Hoodlum91
Red and Green are the colors of the Mexican flag.

Red and green are also found in the flags of many Islamic countries such as Iran, Syria, Sudan, and the Palestinian Authority, so it seems Fort Collins is a hotbed of ethnocentricity and racism.

39 posted on 11/20/2007 6:51:46 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: mtbopfuyn
and that brings us back to whitey again

Reparations!!

Its this plantation mentality that keeps the color black out of the rainbow.
We all know there's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...unless your black!

40 posted on 11/20/2007 6:53:02 AM PST by laotzu
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