Posted on 11/08/2011 5:31:32 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
Walker said Monday that the evergreen decorated with ornaments and adorned with a star in the center of Wisconsin's Capitol Rotunda is a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree as it's been called for the past 25 years.
The roughly 30-foot-tall tree was called a Christmas tree from the first display in 1916 until 1985. That's when politicians bowed to concerns about government endorsing religion and started referring to it as a holiday tree.
The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has opposed the term Christmas tree, saying it offends nonreligious people and amounts to a government endorsement of Christianity.
The president of that group, Annie Laurie Gaylor, called Walker's decision rude and insensitive to non-Christians.
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Has he officially been labeled a racist yet (for this, I mean).
Scott Walker is politically incorrect.
I’d like to see him be our next President.
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all.
I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2010, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere .
Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.
By accepting these greetings, you are accepting the aforementioned terms as stated. This greeting is not subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting.
It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for herself/himself/others, and is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher.
This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
It’s a “Christmas Wishing Tree”
Ask Obama
“The Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has opposed the term Christmas tree, saying it offends nonreligious people and amounts to a government endorsement of Christianity.”
Well they offend me and its does NOT amount to an official government endorsement of Christianity, just an acknowledgement of the fact that 80 percent of Americans are Christians and that are Nation was founded on and based on Judeo/Christian values
Your results may vary.
The president of that group, Annie Laurie Gaylor, called Walker’s decision rude and insensitive to non-Christians.
Well lady I consider you rude, insensitive and offensive.
Unfortunately, for too damned many Cheese State voters, one of the best governors in the USA is being maligned for putting State first and himself second.
One of our most honorable men in politics is being maligned by a vicious campaign financed and carried out by rats who align themselves with Obozo and his scheme to destroy this nation!
One. Annie Gaylor is a braindead ditz. What the hell does a Christmas tree have to do with Christianity? Two. The First Amendment doesn’t say a damn thing about not “offending” anybody. Gaylor needs to get a life and leave the rest of us alone. What a pig.
Political correctness is how we got into this quandry in the first place.
PC is not designed to make people “nicer”, it is a form of intimidation to force the majority to be ashamed of their opinions, and make that majority conform to the demands of the few.
But there is no way to be nice to a porcupine. Try, and you end up with quills sticking out all over you.
The govt is forbidden to be rude and insensitive, it’s in the Constipation ya know. That’s why we killed the king in eighteen sumptin.
LOL, that’s a keeper!
From Dennis Prager last night:
When someone greets him with “Happy Holidays”, he responds, “Which Holidays did you have in mind?”
Everybody knows the “Happy Holidays” come in February.
You know, Groundhog’s Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, Valentine’s Day, Washington’s Birthday, Leap Year Day....
“Annie Laurie Gaylor, called Walker’s decision rude and insensitive to non-Christians.
TFB ... go pi$$ up a rope.”
Is that a physical possibility?? Just asking.
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