[pissant]

Kudos to the Mayor. Democrat or Republican, I don't care. It was the absolutely correct decision. For those who want to bitch and moan, I suggest you tell your employers that you do not celebrate Christmas and work that day w/o extra pay.

Cheers!

[Texas_Jarhead]

""Some years ago, someone in their bureaucratic wiseness decided to change the name to Holiday Parade. I just changed it back to its historically correct name," he said."

More power to him.

[DoughtyOne]

Right on target!

[JennysCool]

"This reeks of a political time when people have their own agendas," she said.

You're exactly right, Jennifer -- about you and your PC ilk.

[neodad]

It is the ignorance that bothers me, the philosophy, the desire to exclude people, whether intentional or not," said Olivenhain resident Nan Sterman, who is Jewish

As was the well known carpenter whom the parade honors.

[narby]

Hey Rabbi! Come on out to the Christmas Parade and have a good time. If you guys want to have your own parade, I'll come on down and enjoy it too.

[JoeSixPack1]

"There is a Christian holiday called Christmas that is celebrated in churches, and there is a Christian holiday called Christmas that is about Santa Claus and reindeer and snowmen and getting together with family and friends and having parades and all this stuff," Dalager said. "We are celebrating the American holiday called Christmas.

FINALLY!!!!!!!

[MNJohnnie]

For the perpetually offended activists

QUIT WHINING

[sure_fine]

screw the boycotters with a barbed shaft

[steel_resolve]

SO now the Jewish lobby is against Christmas!?! WTF? Fine. It was Christmas, is Christmas, and always will be Christmas. When Hannukah rolls around, I want all mention of the Jewish holiday stricken from the media. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[oh8eleven]

Rabbi David Frank of Temple Solel said many of the 800 households in his congregation will not attend.
TFB - it's their loss.

"It makes it very difficult, obviously, to participate in this specifically Christian observance," Frank said.
Oh, so just changing the name back to Holiday Parade would make it okay? It's not too often you find a man of the cloth telling a fib.

Pssst, hey Rabbi ... Christ was Jewish.

[redrock]

Good for the Mayor...he made the correct decision.

Oh...and BTW....(all those who are offended may want to close their eyes at this point).......

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

redrock

[Cicero]

We go to a neighbor's Hannukah party every year, and hardly find it an insult to ourselves as Christians.

I wish someone would tell the Jews at the local Temple mentioned in this article that instead of thumbing their noses at Christmas it would be better to reach out in reciprocal friendship. Jews and Christians should support each other. Let them give a Hannukah party and invite a few Christians to share in the festivities and gain a better understanding of Judaism.

Let me guess. They have a liberal Rabbi.

[Kirkwood]

[Right Wing Assault]

There is a NATIONAL holiday called Christmas. Get used to it. That's how it's going to be.

[tutstar]

OK cities of America, here is your example! We're sick and tired of politically correct nonsense.

It's Christmas Charlie Brown!!

[ArmyTeach]

You know, the one thing that seriuosly offends me is people who make a profession out of being offended. I'd love it if my Jewish friends and neighbors had a Hanukkah parade, Hanukkah decorations. I'd truly enjoy celebrating with them this historic event and God's intervention in it.

[Prime Choice]

I'm sure the ACLU will want to trot out their Homeland Holiday Advisory System right about now...

[firewalk]

Critics of the name change said the city is turning back the clock on religious and cultural tolerance at a time when many organizations have changed their Christmas celebrations to religion-neutral names...

there's that word tolerance being thrown around again when it suits someone's purpose...
they're not trying to 'celebrate' Christmas...
they're trying to kill it...

[connectthedots]

Wonder how many more people will attend because it was changed back to a "Christmas Parade'.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

Ahem. Religious tolerance means you tolerate other peoples' beliefs even if you don't share them. Intolerance is when you demand that others be deprived of their First Amendment rights to religious expression because their beliefs differ from yours.

These idiots got it backwards. They don't realize that if there is no tolerance for Christianity, eventually that intolerance will be directed at them, too.

Personally, I welcome religious expression even if it differs from my methods, practices or beliefs. Freedom for others means freedom for me, too. The only way to make these people feel good is to have a totalitarian clampdown on all religious expression, but then the atheists and secularists are allowed their freedom of (non)relgious expression.

The amazing thing is that so many don't get this.

Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.

(Note to Mayor: Christmas isn't an "Amercian" holiday, and Santa Claus, reindeer and snowmen, although perhaps benign in their way, have nothing to do with the birth of Jesus...)