Posted on 10/19/2007 12:32:07 PM PDT by Patriot62
Sea-Tac airport determined to avoid another "war" over Christmas By Susan Gilmore Seattle Times staff reporter Have a merry, um, Wintertime. There won't be a Christmas tree or a menorah displayed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport this holiday season. Instead, the decorations will be what designer Randy Trostle calls a winterscape, a collection of handcrafted birch trees surrounded by lights and nestled in a pseudo-snowbank. "We're featuring peace and harmony," said Mike Feldman, deputy managing director of the airport. "We're using lights. Winters are so dark and dreary." That means no Santa Claus at the airport. No Christmas tree. And no menorahs. Nothing that smacks of a religious Christmas or Hanukkah celebration.
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Perhaps you should let the light of Christ into your life, and celebrate Christmas.
I presusme to this is to make al Qaeda feel more at home.
“We’re featuring peace and harmony,” said Mike Feldman, deputy managing director of the airport.
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Just before he rolled a fatty.
and so it begins...
And so it begins.............
Have they put in ‘Foot Baths’ yet?
hahaha....
Beat me to it...only Oct....2+ months of threads about Christmas being ‘dissed’ by commercial enterprises....
The Tyranny of the Minority strikes again.
Sounds like trees to me, handcrafted or not.
Might be a nice display. I'll wait to pass judgment until I see it.
That’s OK as long as I have my prayer rug and have a place to wash my feet and a private place to prey (exsuse me, I meant PRAY) etc. Plus I’ll have all my Kwanzaa gear, candles and presents with me.
And I know they won’t search my wife in her burka or my friends turban. We’ll be OK
No sarcasm here, no sir.
And all God’s people said: AMEN!
Ah, nothing gets the dreariness out of the winter like bringing the dreariness inside. Why don’t they just call it Suicide Season in Seattle?
Will there be a foot-washing facility installed in the restrooms?
Should have known some Freeper would beat me to it! LOL!
Why even bother with decorations at all?
As an offering to the ROP can we have Santa holding a knife and a severed head?
If these people are so much against Christmas, why do they feel the need to decorate at all? Why is "peace and harmony" recognized as a wintertime concept? If you attribute peace and harmoney to winter, what are the attributes of the other seasons, and what decorations are displayed for those?
The "no religious displays" idea is a cop-out. If you don't want to decorate because it's too costly, or takes too much time, don't decorate. But to decorate, and then give some concocted meaning to your effort so you don't "offend anyone" is nothing more than a cop-out.
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