Posted on 11/06/2007 3:42:36 AM PST by Man50D
A special task force in a Colorado city has recommended banning red and green lights at the Christmas holiday because they fall among the items that are too religious for the city to sponsor.
"Some symbols, even though the Supreme Court has declared that in many contexts they are secular symbols, often still send a message to some members of the community that they and their traditions are not valued and not wanted. We don't want to send that message," Seth Anthony, a spokesman for the committee, told the Fort Collins, Colo., Coloradoan.
He said the recommended language does not specifically address Christmas trees by name, but the consensus was that they would not fall within acceptable decorations.
What will be allowed are white lights and "secular" symbols not associated "with any particular holiday" such as icicles, unadorned greenery and snowflakes, the task force said.
The group was made up of members of the city's business and religious communities as well as representatives from some community groups. Members met for months to review the existing holiday display policy, which allowed white as well as multi-colored lights and wreaths and garlands.
In previous years, there also was a Christmas tree at the city's Oak Street Plaza.
A vote on the proposal will be coming up before the city council on Nov. 20, officials said.
"As far as I'm concerned, the group ended up in a very fair place in which primarily secular symbols will be used on city property," task force member Saul Hopper told the newspaper.
The existing holiday display rules were adopted in 2006 after a rabbi requested that the city display a menorah.
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The natural question here is : are they going to ban traffic signals?
This isn’t Scrappleface?!?
too weird for words...
“The natural question here is : are they going to ban traffic signals?”
Only the red and green ones. Maybe they’ll change them to blue and white.
I see... These people are offended by the colors red and green.
Well then...
Take down all the traffic lights.
Pull up all the stop signs.
Keep the fire trucks stored out of sight.
Please forgive me but this is making me see red.
These people are nuts!!
Red and green are the colors of the Mexican flag. What’s religious about that?
Cowardice, fuzzy logic and taxpayer funded lunches. What a great country!
Just remind them that green is for Islam, red is for communism, and they’ll relent.
Btw, I want to get an early start on wishing all our Christian friends a merry Christmas.
How are red and green lights a message to some that they are not wanted.
The irony is that the message of Christmas is the most inclusive one God could have devised.
And a happy Independence Day back atcha! ;-). Or does that send the message that some are not welcome?
“The natural question here is : are they going to ban traffic signals?”
Red is very judgmental after all.
> How are red and green lights a message to some that they
> are not wanted.
It might hurt the feelings of Atheists and Mahometan death cultists.
Conversely, banning red and green lights, or any publically supported expression of Christmas, while putting footwashing basins in the airports and universities for Mahomet’s bloody, totalitarian death cult, is a signal that, not only are Christ and Christians not wanted, but neither is Common Sense wanted.
Uhhh, someone should tell the geniuses that red and green are Kwanzaa colors too. They would never risk offending the blacks, would they?
“...send a message to some members of the community that they and their traditions are not valued and not wanted.”
Like Christian traditions?
My father-in-law envisioned a sort of vigilante group made up of terminally ill patriots who would clean out government by removing governmental @$$holes in a most prejudicial manner. And being they were terminal, there punishment would be severely truncated by nature.
The leap of logic here is ridiculous. Putting up red and green lights, or even a Nativity Scene, does not send a message to other members of the community that their traditions are not valued and not wanted. That is the logical equivalent of saying that I like vanilla ice cream, therefore I don't like chocolate ice cream.
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