Holiday decorations OK without religion SEATTLE — Decking the halls with boughs of holly is fine as long as it doesn’t look like Christmas at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, an advisory panel has recommended. The region’s largest airport, scene of a controversy over holiday displays last winter, should be decorated for the holidays again this year, possibly with trees, lights, colors and fabric but not with any religious symbols, the Port of Seattle’s Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee decided. “The use of light and color is especially appropriate in Seattle due to our dark winter travel season,” but holiday decorations should “reflect the Pacific Northwest environment and our diverse community, and convey universal values, such as peace and harmony,” the panel recommended. “Our goal is to create an inclusive and warm environment at the airport.” The advisory group was formed after an uproar over nine trees decorated with red ribbons and bows at the airport last December. The trees were taken down after Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky of the Chabad Lubavitch organization threatened a lawsuit unless a menorah representing Hanukkah was added. Then the trees went back up after Bogomilsky said he never wanted them removed, only that the Jewish holiday be recognized as well. No menorah was allowed. In the future, any trees should be decorated so they do not appear to be Christmas trees, although some on the advisory panel insisted that the Christmas trees were not a Christian religious symbol.
I say we have a vote......let's get rid of the FEDERAL CHRISTMAS holiday......I'm sure the retailers around the country would love that.......get off the spend spend spend wagon,,,so to speak........
No recognition=no offense........
if p then q............
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
And let's go one step further....EVERYONE HAS TO WORK DECEMBER 25TH.
I am a christian and yet I don't need to have my religious belief stroned all over the malls and lawns for public display. I have my own ceramic nativity scene displayed 'in my home'. That is where me and my family celebrate Christmas. If I never saw another public display of the christian christmas, I could care less. I don't decorate the outside of the house either. Me and my family celebrate the joys of the holiday season in our home and would continue to even if the malls and stores and lawns didn't! That is not what inspires us nor does it help strengthen our faith at the holiday season. So to that I say...ban them all....won't effect me one way or the other. I still believe!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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