[Diverdogz]

They can have the tree if they put in a sprinkler system. Following the fire code is just good sense. Sprinklers can buy enough time to safely get out of a building. Nothing to get upset about.

[eeriegeno]

Let me understand this????? This Christmas tree has to come down in a church, with a couple hundred students, because there is no sprinkler system YET the WTC, with 10's of thousands of employees, was allowed to be open for business with 'no' sprinkler system and no plan of evacuation in case of emergency.

[LS]

Guess you could say "Great White Strikes Again."

[CindyDawg]

They just need to put in a sprinkler system. Not every law is bad. If they would work with the fire department they might get an extension and get to keep the tree.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

...you see that nothing artificial is used,'' said Rev. Edmund Freeborn III, a Presbyterian minister at Gloria Dei.i>

OK. That means no electricity and lights. If they don't mount candles to the tree and they keep the trunk in water, what is the hazard?

[VermiciousKnid]

You think that's bad?

Dang...they won't even let us have real CANDLES in our (Catholic) churches anymore. Only those stupid-looking push-button things.

I tell you, it's a wonder we all survived without so much "protection."

Regards,

[ThinkLikeWaterAndReeds]

There are chemicals that can be sprayed onto trees that will be absorbed and will keep the tree from igniting even if a blow torch is applied. Duah!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[CdMGuy]

They ought to tell the fire department to F-off. Every church I have ever been a member of has one or more real Christmas trees and none of them have ever had sprinklers. You can't buy an artificial tree tall enounh as they just dont make them. Just more government bureaucrats sticking their nose into religion under a safety excuse.

[DouglasKC]

Over the last 46 years, Chrismon trees have become a part of the Christmas season for Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists and other Christians across the nation.

Hmmm...only 46 years? I guess nobody knew what they were doing for the 1,954 years before that.

[patriot_wes]

"The tree isn't up merely for decoration, said the Rev. L. Douglas Stowe, senior pastor of Gloria Dei. It is part of the church's religious heritage and a tool, Stowe said, to teach children about Jesus"

to think the Messaiah had to get entangled in pagen tree cutting rituals and that it has anything to do with Christianity....weird

[Alissa]

My daughter went to this very same pre-school 20 years ago.

[technomage]

Uh-oh! The anti-religious, anti-Christian left will take a good look at this. Just another tool to use to get rid of a symbol they despise.