Posted on 12/17/2010 10:10:01 AM PST by Robert Drobot
Federal Reserve examiners come every four years to make sure banks are complying with a long list of regulations. The examiners came to Perkins last week. And the team from Kansas City deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us." were inappropriate. The Bible verse of the day on the bank's Internet site also had to be taken down.
“I don’t think there should be a problem with them displaying whatever religious symbols they want to display,” said Amy Weierman, a Perkins resident.
Specifically, the feds believed, the symbols violated the discouragement clause of Regulation B of the bank regulations. According to the clause, "...the use of words, symbols, models and other forms of communication ... express, imply or suggest a discriminatory preference or policy of exclusion."
The feds interpret that to mean, for example, a Jew or Muslin or atheist may be offended and believe they may be discriminated against at this bank. It is an appearance of discrimination.
But customers Eyewitness News 5 talked to said they aren’t buying it.
“This is just ridiculous,” said bank customer Jim Nyles. “This whole thing is just ridiculous. We all have regulatory bodies that govern us. But this is too much.”
“I think that’s absurd,” said Chelsi Holser, a bank customer. “I don’t agree with it at all. They are taking Christ out of Christmas and life.”
The bank is quietly fighting for a clearer interpretation of the clause. Officials have contacted their two U.S. legislators, Rep. Frank Lucas and Sen. Jim Inhoffe, and the Oklahoma Bankers Association to help.
Some non-violent civil-disobedience is in order for these types of things. Enough.
that bank needs to make a giant poster size display in its lobby of a US Dollar - that says “IN GOD WE TRUST”
The bank should post the Ten Commandments with special emphasis on ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’.
I would like to see the rationale for taking it down.
Just say no.
Add this to the list for 2012 elections.
Im not buying it either.... It is a provate corporation, they can do what they want...
None of this “war on christians” is going to stop unless corporations, cities, towns, etc start fighting back...
I bet the bank caves like all the others... Thats why the Feds get away with it.
If it’s a privately owned bank, what authority do the Feds have to stop them from decorating their bank however they choose?
Another good reason to End the Fed!
These commies have gone far enough. We're employing atheists to govern our affairs !!!
The bank president should say “bl** me” to these ‘examiners’ and dare them to yank his charter.
This demostrates more than anything else how firmly entrenched the liberal democraps are in the govt
Everyone down to the office workers is a union member and/or socialist democrap and they keep hiring their own kind
Specifically, the feds believed, the symbols violated the discouragement clause of Regulation B of the bank regulations. According to the clause, "...the use of words, symbols, models and other forms of communication ... express, imply or suggest a discriminatory preference or policy of exclusion."IOW, shariah lending is illegal -- and the same fed bastards had BETTER enforce it that way.
Coming soon to a church near you.
Doing this is “the Fed”’s top priority? Gawd, I can’t wait for this administration to be over with.
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