In article <[email hidden]>,
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Quoted message said:Be careful Nancy...we can't offend anybody...
.....from Neal Boortz
NOW ITS EASTER IN THE CROSSHAIRS
One of the people who works in the St. Paul City Council offices
brought a fuzzy little Easter bunny and some colored words to work,
They were displayed with a "Happy Easter" sign. Well, you can easily
guess what happened next. Someone complained, and now the order has
been issued. No Easter decorations. Tyrone Terrill is the St. Paul
Human Rights director. He issued the order ... 86 the Easter
decorations because they "could be offensive to non-Christians."
Oh, the humanity!
There is no way that posting a "Happy Easter" sign or putting a fuzzy
bunny on your desk can be considered to be passing a law "respecting
an establishment of religion." Posting the sign does not establish a
religion, it merely recognizes one, Christianity. It seems, though,
that the politically correct crowd is determined that wording of the
1st Amendment be changed to read "Neither the congress, nor any
government subdivision thereof, shall take any action, or allow any
action to be taken on any property owned or controlled by the
government, that shall recognize the existence of any religion." This
is not what our Constitution requires, but it is most certainly what
the left desires.
Good for Terrill! A lot of Americans are sick of christians trying to
shove their religion down everyone's throat. Freedom of religion also
means freedom FROM religion. No, these individuals were not intending to
be offensive or pushy, but the effect on others may not be what they
expected. Can you imagine the outcry from the christian right morons if
there were a Hindu or Buddhist display in a government office?
For hundrends of years a favorite easter activity among christians was
to harrass, beat up, and murder Jews because of the fatuous myth that
they killed Jesus. To some people that's what easter means.
And anyway, fuzzy bunnies and candy and other commmon easter decorations
should be most offensive to any true christian. The most sacred
christian holiday (all fantasy of course but the believers don't realize
that), the most central part of christian dogma, and it's celebrated
with bunnies and sugar?
Peter Aitken