Red, green lights to be banned?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | November 6, 2007

[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.

[HarleyD]

BTW, when I lived in Connecticut, I was told that only Italians put colored lights up on their houses.

Mama mia, what is this world coming to??? I love looking at Christmas lights. We have four indoor trees that I put up each year alone.

I agree with Dr. E. If I lived in that town I would put outdoor lights all over the place-and I'd probably would make them all red and green this year just to make a point.

[suzyjaruki]

I would put outdoor lights all over the place

LOL, then you would probably be shunned or worse (maybe picketed) because you are using too much energy in a community that is becoming Greener each day. The folks running Fort Collins are looking to Environmentalists to bail out the city budget, by creating Green businesses here - even gaining a name for themselves in that arena.

[HarleyD]

LOL, then you would probably be shunned or worse (maybe picketed) because you are using too much energy

OK, then I would use solar Christmas lights. :O)

[suzyjaruki]

ROFLOL, I pray you will have a sunny Christmas season.

[mware]

"And verily they came. Three wise men from afar bearing gifts of red and green light bulbs for the baby Jesus."

[LukeL]

Would help out me and millions of other colorblind people, don’t even get me started on those annoying LED indicators.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

I always thought that evergreens decorated with red and green lights in December were called “Hannukah Bushes”.

[Captainpaintball]

Church hymns being dropped by children's choirs,
Jackboots dump red and green clothes,
corporate grinch sits around and conspires
To force "holiday Trees" on us at Lowe's

Don't you people know ? Some turkeys just banned mistletoe!!!
It makes some people feel uptight
Whiny snots! They're just mean Christophobes
I don't know how they sleep at night.

I guess that Santa's still OK;
Until some lawyer gets his way.
One with too much time on their hands will try
To get judges to ban traffic lights

I once could offer you this harmless phrase
But thanks to the ACLU
Because it offends many kinds, many ways
No "Merry Christmas" for you!!!

And so the PC cops have banned this phrase,
in retail stores and publik skools,
Because it offends, many kinds, many ways,
No "Merry Christmas" for you!!!

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Is this one to be sung to the same tune as that immortal Christmas song that goes, “Chimpmunks roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost ripping out your nose, yuletide carolers being thrown on a fire......” ?

[Captainpaintball]

Certainly!

[McCoMo]

This is the most assinine thing I think I have heard of in my life.

Their thinking is, apparently, since many christians use red and green lights at christmas time, that red and green lights must have some religious significance. Well, I have been a christian all of my life, and I know of nothing in my religion that says a damned thing about colored lights. In fact, if lights on a christmas tree were tied to any sort of religion, it would be paganism, and historically, the lights they used to decorate trees were candles... which give off WHITE LIGHT.

If, simply because christians do a particular thing, that it automatically makes the thing they do a religious thing... well, every christian I have ever known also breathed oxygen. So there needs to be a law forbidding citizens of Ft Collins from breathing any oxygen. Four minutes after that.. all problems with this issue will be resolved.

[Man50D]

Didn’t Christ wear white? If so then shouldn't white lights should be banned?