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MSU removes Christmas tree after complaint from Jewish professor
KY3.com ^ | Nov 29, 2007

Posted on 11/29/2007 8:41:43 AM PST by Blue Turtle

SPRINGFIELD -- A Missouri State University department head took down a 20-foot Christmas tree (not the one in the photo) after a diversity official reported a complaint that it was insensitive to other religions. As a result, MSU officials are meeting Friday to discuss appropriate holiday decorations

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: christianity; christmas; cranksveto; missouristate; persecution; thegrinch; waronchristmas; waronchristmas2007
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1 posted on 11/29/2007 8:41:44 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Blue Turtle

Ho! Ho!....Oy!!


2 posted on 11/29/2007 8:42:55 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: Blue Turtle

“diversity official”????......Achtung!!!


3 posted on 11/29/2007 8:43:16 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Blue Turtle

Yu vill remove das tree, Ja?


4 posted on 11/29/2007 8:44:35 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Blue Turtle

A great many people in this country need to get a life.


5 posted on 11/29/2007 8:44:37 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triagle of death)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

http://www.missouristate.edu/contact.html


6 posted on 11/29/2007 8:45:07 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Blue Turtle

A Christmas Tree says, Christians are here. Perhaps he is more offended by our existence? There once was a country that broke the windows of stores that had Mogen Dovids on them. Do you recall its name Professor?


7 posted on 11/29/2007 8:45:09 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Blue Turtle

Tell me, how is a Christmas tree offensive? You know, Christmas being the time of year of peace, hope and joy...yeah, who wants to respect that?


8 posted on 11/29/2007 8:46:09 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Blue Turtle

Diversity Official? More like Diversity Commissar...

Alumns of MSU should stop all contributions to their disgraceful school.


9 posted on 11/29/2007 8:46:42 AM PST by Lexington Green (Not one dime to Hollywood traitors)
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To: massgopguy

I tell you as a Christian I am SOOOOO OFFENDED when I see a Menorah.... </sarcasm>


10 posted on 11/29/2007 8:47:46 AM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: Blue Turtle

As an MSU alum, I hate to hear this stuff. It won’t play well, but the local newspaper, The Springfield News-Leader, will play right along. They have a new “Voices” section in the paper which sounds a lot like DU at times.

Springfield, Missouri, is a red city in a red county. Most of the leftist/pc crap we have going on here comes from the University.

Years ago, I was managing editor of a campus newspaper paper there. Just like any other campus, the leftist faculty has does its best to influence young minds.

The colleges, the newspaper, the public schools and the not-for-profit community are the bastions of leftist activity here.

Marx would be proud.


11 posted on 11/29/2007 8:47:47 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: Blue Turtle
Not that there was really any doubt about the true motivation behind all this....but, this quote is from a longer version of the article.

"Stone said Jewish faculty members were invited to put up a menorah display but declined, telling Stone they were worried the display would be stolen."


12 posted on 11/29/2007 8:47:49 AM PST by GOPmember (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Blue Turtle
The yiddish phrase shondeh fer deh goyim refers to a Jew who humiliates all Jews in the eyes of Gentiles. The putz who complained about the tree is such a person.

To all Freepers, a heartfelt MERRY CHRISTMAS from me.

13 posted on 11/29/2007 8:48:20 AM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Lexington Green

Well, since I know thousands of them, I’ll do my part.


14 posted on 11/29/2007 8:48:35 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: Slapshot68

Peace, hope and joy is offensive to Muslim terrorists so the P.C. police must remove the tree.


15 posted on 11/29/2007 8:49:28 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Slapshot68

Perhaps there are some Jewish professors here, that can explain.


16 posted on 11/29/2007 8:49:58 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Blue Turtle

None of my Jewish friends are bothered by Christmas Trees in public places


17 posted on 11/29/2007 8:50:13 AM PST by Proverbs 3-5
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To: Blue Turtle

Any bets on whether the complaining professor is non-observant? I’d give odds he is not.


18 posted on 11/29/2007 8:51:54 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Doesn’t a Christmas tree celebrate diversity? Is Christmas NOT a national holiday?


19 posted on 11/29/2007 8:51:55 AM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: Blue Turtle
"As a result, MSU officials are meeting Friday to discuss appropriate holiday decorations."

Hmmm...one would think they would have discussed the "appropriate holiday decorations" BEFORE they took down the tree.

20 posted on 11/29/2007 8:52:12 AM PST by HarleyD
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