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Bah Humbug! Christmas Trees Axed From Copenhagen Conference
Fox News ^ | 12/7/2009 | FOX NEWS

Posted on 12/06/2009 10:26:39 PM PST by Dallas59

Participants at Copenhagen's global climate summit will be meeting during the holiday season, but they will not be surrounded by festive Christmas decor, according to Denmark's Foreign Ministry.

Since Christmas is a religious holiday, it has no place at a United Nations event, said officials planning the event.

A sponsor providing fir trees for the conference's Christmas trees learned this the hard way when it was turned away by planners of the international event, the Copenhagen Post reported.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: christianright; theun
"We have to remember that this is a U.N. conference and, as the center then becomes U.N. territory, there can be no Christmas trees in the decor, because the U.N. wishes to maintain neutrality," said Denmark Foreign Ministry official Svend Olling.


1 posted on 12/06/2009 10:26:40 PM PST by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

Guess they heard that 0bama does not want a Nativity Scene in the White Hut so out of respect for the Dear Leader who receives the Peace Prize...no trees either..]
What a schlub we have or a pRESIDENT.


2 posted on 12/06/2009 10:32:37 PM PST by celtic gal
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To: Dallas59
THE



3 posted on 12/06/2009 10:34:37 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Dallas59
O iron the skulling knee?

lol...

4 posted on 12/06/2009 10:45:13 PM PST by JasonC
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To: JasonC

Rowing!


5 posted on 12/06/2009 11:18:42 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Dallas59

Does the UN keep itself bare of Islamic or other Oriental religious insignia too?


6 posted on 12/06/2009 11:30:15 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America.)
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To: Dallas59

Get the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US.


7 posted on 12/06/2009 11:40:05 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: JasonC

Oh Iron the people rowing hairy labeled leg


9 posted on 12/07/2009 4:45:01 AM PST by rdax
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