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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Share the wealth! Jews can learn good stuff from Christians and vis versa and yes Jews are the pastrami kings I just so happen to be a connoisseur.
Jews used to own so many of Americans retail operations...You better believe they loved Christmas w the increased sales and put up Christmas displays. Now you get some disgusting atheists (some Jewish born) who try to ruin Christmas. Those Grinches should FOAD!
“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.”
BINGO
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