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Cross-Like T-Shirt Design at Penn State University Sparks Controversy
Fox News. ^ | 10/26/09 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 10/26/2009 1:10:50 PM PDT by Reaganesque

A blue, cross-like design emblazoned on T-shirts at Penn State University has some critics seeing red.

The shirts — intended to foster school spirit — sport a vertical blue line down the center with the words "Penn State White Out" emblazoned across the chest, forming a design that some say resembles a cross. The back of the shirt depicts the same blue line obscured by the words, "Don't be intimated … It's just me and 110,000 of my friends." Roughly 30,000 of the shirts have been sold.

Penn State says it has received six complaints about the shirt, including one from the Anti-Defamation League's Philadelphia branch, from people who say it connotes a Christian cross. The logo design also has become the focus of controversy in the student newspaper, "The Daily Collegian," which has received several letters to the editor on both sides of the issue.

Michal Berns, a junior majoring in media law and policy, said she refused to buy the $15 shirt because of its religious connotations.

"At first glance, you don't necessarily think that's what it looks like, but when you look at it more, it does look like a cross," Berns told Foxnews.com. "That's the reason I didn't purchase it."...

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To: Reaganesque

Michal Berns, a junior majoring in media law and policy, said she refused to buy the $15 shirt because of its religious connotations.

“At first glance, you don’t necessarily think that’s what it looks like, but when you look at it more, it does look like a cross,”

Well Michal, If you take a second look in the mirror you might be able to see something that resembles an ASS. That doesn’t mean that you see one.


41 posted on 10/26/2009 1:49:31 PM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: raybbr

Zero is about as popular as AIDS in Israel.


42 posted on 10/26/2009 1:50:07 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Reaganesque
What idiots. It's a "t" as in t-shirt.

BTW, I was driving around and I came to an intersection and they had a sign that had a symbol on it like this: +

I demand they change that cross to something else. Maybe an islamic crescent.

43 posted on 10/26/2009 1:50:14 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Reaganesque

It vaguely resembles two criss crossing lines. Some faux controversy about nothing but intolerance for Christianity.

Meanwhile when it comes to Islam, K-12 schools in Caliphateornia...

http://www.brookesnews.com/092809sharia.html


44 posted on 10/26/2009 1:50:35 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I’m not a Penn State fan and I knew instantly what the stripe was. Of course I’m not trying to be offended every time I turn around.


45 posted on 10/26/2009 1:53:19 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: j_tull

The gold domers aren’t religious anymore, little sheeple


46 posted on 10/26/2009 1:54:44 PM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
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To: Reaganesque
ooooooooooooo...better ban this one too!
47 posted on 10/26/2009 1:54:57 PM PDT by Malichi (!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
She doesn't want to buy it because she is Jewish and a peace activist? Notice the header on the website and who is on it. Obama/Carter/etc.

I took a look at the website. The Conference took place on April Fools Day. Apparently there were no reportable results from the meeting. But she must be an "A" student if she got herself listed to represent Penn State.

Looking at the names of the participants, there will be peace when Israel is wiped off the map. Maybe they recommend more "land for peace," until there is no more land to give for peace, just more land for terrorists to stage their operations against Israel.

48 posted on 10/26/2009 1:56:09 PM PDT by olezip
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To: Right Wing Assault

Maybe we should remove the plus sign from all calculators, computer keyboards and so on?


49 posted on 10/26/2009 1:56:50 PM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: C19fan
Penn State destroyed Notre Dame two years ago in the most amazing white out I've ever seen:


50 posted on 10/26/2009 1:57:05 PM PDT by samson1097
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To: Malichi

I heard the ACLU was persuing a ban on the lower case ‘t’.


51 posted on 10/26/2009 1:57:12 PM PDT by MrB (The only difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: GeronL
The gold domers aren’t religious anymore, little sheeple

Hey, they all sang "Notre Dame, Our Mother" after their Boston College win (it was beautiful) ... in fact they sing it at home games win or lose ... and Notre Dame isn't completely out of the religious game ... in order for that to be true, ... they would have to blow the Dame off the Dome, rip the heart (the Eucharist) out of Sacred Heart (Church) and lastly, rock by rock, tear the Grotto apart. And legions of Her sons and daughters would willingly die martyrs before they would allow that to happen" Tom O'Toole, Fighting Irish Thomas.
52 posted on 10/26/2009 2:08:00 PM PDT by mlizzy ("It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy" --Mother Teresa of Calcutta.)
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To: Reaganesque
remove the plus sign from all calculators, computer keyboards and so on

I'm on it. I've taken a marker to all the + signs everywhere I find them.

Oh, no! Now even Nike is doing it.

53 posted on 10/26/2009 2:11:32 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: Da Coyote

“...to shove it up their Obama.”

Hey I like your phrase. We should start a trend and all start using it instead of the other word.


54 posted on 10/26/2009 2:13:02 PM PDT by 2dogjoe (Have a Blessed Day)
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To: Reaganesque

White out? Wait a minute. That’s racsist! Does that mean the white folks are going to white out the black folks or does it mean the black folks are going to take out the white ones? Don’t know, but it’s racist.


55 posted on 10/26/2009 2:13:33 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

She’s Jewish, a peace activist, and too easily offended by things. It’s not even a religious symbol, but because it reminds her of a religious symbol, then she is ready to go to war about it.

These same types of people make fun of conservatives/traditionalists who are offended by the name of the TV show “Californication”. To liberals, there is nothing wrong or objectionable or suggestive about the name of that show. And the liberals say, why would anyone protest the name of that show? It doesn’t mean that the show is objectionable, yadda, yadda, yadda.

But simply seeing something that can resemble a Christian religious symbol gets their panties in a twist, and intimidates people. Unbelieveable.


56 posted on 10/26/2009 2:17:53 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: raybbr

She comes to OUR country and starts telling people what to do? The shirt she’s wearing has some kind of Hebrew writing on it. I object. I think she shouldn’t wear her shirt because it is very offensive to those who are not Jews.


57 posted on 10/26/2009 2:18:41 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Reaganesque

So do many telephone poles and power poles and we all know that these are far right wing Christian organizations.


58 posted on 10/26/2009 2:21:15 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I don't have time to Procrastinate)
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To: Reaganesque

If it were the crescent moon on display with a green background, Obama and the suicidal Dems would be wearing them.


59 posted on 10/26/2009 2:26:52 PM PDT by wac3rd (Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
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To: wac3rd

Which is fascinating because it is precisely their Liberalism that the jihadists hate the most about the US. Go figure.


60 posted on 10/26/2009 2:36:34 PM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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