Posted on 12/21/2004 9:54:17 PM PST by kattracks
Susan Rosenbluth and fellow Orthodox Jews yesterday came to Maplewood, N.J., to join a crowd of more than 100 carolers in singing Christmas and Hanukkah songs in front of Columbia High School.
Holiday hymns were sung in response to school policies that Steve Lonegan — the Republican mayor of nearby Bogota, N.J., who organized the event — called "intolerance" toward traditional religious beliefs.[snip]
"The greatest works of art in Western civilization are inspired by religious — predominantly Christian — convictions," said Mrs. Rosenbluth, editor of Jewish Voice and Opinion, an Englewood-based monthly.
"We are religious Jews who believe Western civilization is the heritage of all of our children in the United States," Mrs. Rosenbluth said, explaining why she and other Orthodox Jews joined the protest.
"This started out as a small event I decided last week to do," said Mr. Lonegan, who is Catholic. "I expected a handful of people and attacks against me by newspaper editors. Instead, there's this groundswell of support and the newspapers haven't attacked me — yet."[snip]
The group reports these incidents as the latest examples of such attacks:
•Schools in Palm Beach County, Fla., warned teachers not to allow any Christmas decorations to be displayed.
•Across the country, children in public schools have been barred from giving out Christmas cards, and some have been banned from using the greeting "Merry Christmas."
•In a New Jersey elementary school, a class trip to see a Broadway performance of the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" was canceled owing to the threat of a lawsuit.
•At a Plano, Texas, school, parents were prohibited from using red and green plates and napkins — they could bring only white decorations for "winter" parties.
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Ping.
" At a Plano, Texas, school, parents were prohibited from using red and green plates and napkins — they could bring only white decorations for "winter" parties. "
You've got to be $#!^^!%& me !!!
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Do they change them to purple, pink and puce?
I guess Handel's Messiah is pretty much out the door. How much Bach could you actually listen to?
I wonder what you do in English when Shakespeare mentions God, or Keats or Lord Byron.
I'm agnostic but I'll call a spade a spade: anyone who wants God removed from the public square is nothing less than an Intellectual Fascist who wishes an end to Western Civilization.
A pox on them all.
This is terrific.
With the Jews involved, we actually stand a chance of whacking the ACLU on this. The last thing they want is a division among their Jewish supporters.
I'm just waiting for that schmuck Foxman and the ADL, or some other Jewish Communist mouth-organ, to accuse Krauthammer and Jacoby and the Orthodox Jews of toadying up to the Christians. That ought to do it.
"freedom?" ping
" Makes you wonder what they do about traffic lights at Christmas time? Do they change them to purple, pink and puce? "
No. All white.
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