then then the CHRIST out of it and call it a MAS TREE!!!
Posted on 09/30/2009 2:37:59 PM PDT by machogirl
The Alliance Defense Fund sent a letter to Governor Brewer and other officials saying that it goes against the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. By KFYI News
(KFYI News) Federal and Arizona officials, including Governor Brewer, were sent a letter by the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) to stop enforcing a requirement banning kids from creating ornaments with religious themes for the 2009 Capitol Christmas Tree. Click here to read the entire letter.
Arizona was given the honor of providing Washington D.C. their annual Christmas tree and having schoolchildren from around the state decorate the tree with some 4,000 ornaments.
The children were given a list of specifications for how the ornaments should appear, including weight, size and how they "cannot reflect a religious or political theme."
The ADF argues in the letter that its a violation of First Amendment rights.
"Religious expression is speech and is entitled to the same level of protection as other kinds of speech."
Letter
http://www.kfyi.com/cc-common/mlib/622/09/622_1254267860.pdf
celebrating a religious holiday but ornaments cannot be religious...what a whack job
Only a government lawyer could come up with this... It’s inappropriate to have religious references on ornaments that celebrate a religious holiday!
I’m amazed that these peoples’ heads don’t explode.
Mark
Didn’t Barry say that he and Michelle didn’t give their kids Christmas presents?
only in the Obama Age.
SouthPark already did it (sort of). The prophets Parker and Stone have accurately predicted things going on today in their TV shows.
Mark
I’ll have to look at that. Has South Park taken on the Islamofacists yet?
It’s almost pathetically humorous, except it has consequences.
(the lib push to eliminate references to GOD.)
coming soon, “The Christmas Tree Czar”
How can you ban religious ornaments from something called a christmas tree? It’s not called a whatevermas tree...
then then the CHRIST out of it and call it a MAS TREE!!!
I’m sure as we speak, some Govt. employee is writing a report and guidelines as to what can be done with Christmas.
So I assume, there won’t be any Menorah in the Capital? No Kawanza stuff?
I suppose that might work for the Obama crowd.
I’m going to order some crosses on stickers about 2 inches square and I will put everywhere!
Mirror World.
You mean the Holiday Tree?
oops sorry. i forgot the pc lingo. i should have remembered. our school district has ‘winter break’, the choral pagent is ‘winter holiday’. speaking of that, 3 years ago when my youngest was in 6th grade, they had songs to celebrate, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, but no Christmas song to celebrate the Birth of Christ.
that’s a good one!
not that one, the “other one”. ;)
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