Iowa Town Renames Good Friday To "Spring Holiday"

http://abcnews.go.com/ ^ | March 30, 2010 | Russell Goldman

[Biggirl]

One week before the most solemn day in the Christian year, the city of Davenport, Iowa removed Good Friday from its municipal calendar, setting off a storm of complaints from Christians and union members whose contracts give them that day off. Taking a recommendation by the Davenport Civil Rights Commission to change the holiday's name to something more ecumenical, City Administrator Craig Malin sent a memo to municipal employees announcing Good Friday would officially be known as "Spring Holiday."

[Mr. Lucky]

The Demoines Register quotes the City Administrator as saying that the e-mail changing the name was sent out "by mistake".

Doncha just hate it when characters on your computer's word processing software self organize into complex sentences and send themselves out to employee service lists.

[LukeL]

Yom Kipur could be say your sorry day.

[Emmett McCarthy]

The ONLY event in all of human history that matters happened on Good Friday. The world tells us what year it is based on that event. I can live because He died, He rose and He lives.
http://emmettgrayson.com/GraysonEmmett_ThatRockIsGonnaRoll_2.mp3

If you care to listen

[edcoil]

The fact he thought he could change it at all speaks volumes.

[edcoil]

Mind if I barrow/use that line?

[ilovesarah2012]

Yeah, sure, mistake. When will these people learn that America (well, some of us) take God very seriously.

[Woebama]

Mind if I barrow/use that line?
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Absolutelee tootelee.

[Rodm]

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

[Russ]

Thanks!

[Overtaxed Patriot]

Earthquake forecast in Iowa.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“Spring Holiday.”

Wouldn’t that favor a Wiccan holiday or Mother Earth or something like that?

[andy58-in-nh]

Unless you have a specific and defensible critique, I would humbly suggest that New Hampshire can stand quite well on its own merits.

We have no sales or income tax. Our gun laws are extremely pro-2nd Amendment. Our legislators are citizens with real day jobs, who get paid $100 a year for their public service. Our governor serves a two-year term and has little real power. We have mountains, an ocean, numerous glacial lakes and beautiful pristine forests. Our quality of life is consistently rated in the top 5 among all states, our schools are likewise highly-rated and our unemployment rate is far below the national average. Now if we could only figure out a way to keep the leftist moonbats from Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts out of here, it would be damned near perfect.

[Colorado Cowgirl]

So when they have spring floods, and they always do. Who are they going to call? Someone who can rebuke the wind or calm the sea and walk on the water, or Obozo and FEMA. Everyone in Davenport Iowa have a Happy Easter.

[Salvation]

Prayers for their souls if this is really true.