New York Village Would Rather Remove 9-Foot Menorah than Allow Nativity Scene

Life Site News ^ | 12.19.06 | JORGE FITZ-GIBBON

[BIGLOOK]

Once upon a time, we used to celebrate the season.......now we litigate the season.

Lawyers without sensibilities should be fair game during the Big Game hunting season in October and November in NY. Thinning the herd benefits all.

[Coleus]

Thank you...

And a happy and healthy new year to you and yours.

[Coleus]

St. Francis of Assisi and the Christmas Crèche

 

[rmlew]

In 333 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered Syria, Egypt and Palestine, and promoted a
Pale-what?
Do you mean the Second Commonwealth of Israel, which was a protectorate of Persia?

[Jim Noble]

If overwhelmingly Jewish communities should be allowed to essentially ban a creche, Christian minority be damned (and I think they should be), then overwhelmingly Christian communities should be allowed to display the creche, everyone else be damned.

That's what Liberty means.

[dr_who_2]

Fascinating. And yet so irrelevant.

[Coleus]

I thought you were out of here? It looks as though you love this thread.

[dr_who_2]

Yup.

[Cecily]

I know. It's a loaded word in our days. Was the term used for Israel during the Second Temple period?

http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/meaning.html

[mrsmith]

"This is stupid. How does suing get you want you want in this situation. "

The law is stupid.

The courts have ruled that if public officials allow a display by one religion they cannot exclude any other religion that wants to put up a display.
The courts won't change their ruling unless it is shown to be stupid-by these stupid suits.

"The law is an ass", you have to beat sense into it sometimes.

[Jorge]

The tree is not secular.

The tree is now a religion?

[SJackson]

I skipped those, I do the Holiday Tree threads.

You were right though, other than Ha'aertz, no one has picked the story up. It's as though it didn't happen.

[SJackson]

I am sure Jesus celebrated Hanakka.

Not something I'm an authority on, but I think the Feast of Dedication referred to in John was Hanukah.

[dr_who_2]

Yeah, probably part of some ancient pagan winter-solstice related shin-dig. But a lot of christians in the world do associate pine trees with one of the holidays on the christian calendar. I guess that means that evergreens everywhere should be cut down and burnt all over the country to prevent the establishment of religion.

[dr_who_2]

I wouldn't go so far as to damn anybody. Not that I can, really. Or tell God what to do for that matter. Majoritarianism, putting everything up for a vote, is a dumb idea. The town or whoever might be abusing their power a little, but it seems to me that the people who have a legitimate complaint are the taxpayers who object to paying the court room electric bill for this fiasco to continue.

[Bainbridge]

That is just a ridiculous argument. It is called a CHRISTmas tree, for heavens sake.

[Texas_Jarhead]

It seems that this year is a pivtoal time for the transformation of the Christmas tree into a "religious symbol".

[Bainbridge]

It is really an incredibly beautiful place, as is much of Westchester County. These places are quite old and have actual histories: not like the "made up" "communities" one finds in so much of our great land.

[Bainbridge]

I lived there from 70 to 75 and they sure were not even close to pure "WASP" then..........

[Bainbridge]

Thank you, and G-d ( is that right?) Bless you!