Christmas tree removed...

[Voter2002]

..from a federal courthouse so as not to "offend anyone" -

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=29158

WTF????? I'm tired of people doing things just to be PC. SO DAMN WHAT if someone is offended by seeing a Christmas tree! The S.O.B. should have his/her arse kicked if they try to tell anyone they are offended by the sight of a Christmas tree. This is total B.S.!!!!!

 

[vraiblonde]

Bill O'Reilly's been doing a running series on the "attack on Christmas". He says blame Canada.

http://billoreilly.com/currentarticle

 

[Tonio]

What a load of crap. No sensible non-Christian would be offended by a Christmas tree in a courthouse, as long as other religions weren't barred from having cultural symbols in the same building. It doesn't even come close to Roy Moore's harebrained Ten Commandments monument, which had a clear sectarian purpose. Christmas trees and mistletoe and Santa Claus and candy canes have little or nothing to do with the birth of Christ. They're just cultural traditions associated with the holiday.

 

[MerF]

My kid's Christmas program had a LOT of songs I had never heard of, so as not to offend these same types of people. Pretty aggravating not being able to sing Christmas songs that did not relate to Christmas...lol

 

[Daddy_O]

I wonder if it is ever considered about how many people are going to be offended upon the removal of the items. pretty soon we are going to be a very bland society of people who are watching there every move so that no one can complain on them..

 

[sunflower]

Whats next?

 

[crabcake]

Whats next?

halloween costumes will probably be banned.

 

[Tonio]

halloween costumes will probably be banned.

If you assume that complaints about Christmas come from lefties, then complaints about Halloween seem to come from righties. I know a few people who insist that Halloween is Satanic in intent, even suggesting that it's part of Beelzebub's nefarious plot to lure kids into worshipping him. Personally, I think that's baloney. Halloween has no religious significance of any kind in modern society. It's just a fun celebration.

 

[Ponytail]

It's a Festivus for the rest of us!!!

One of the clubs up here is having a Festivus party. Another one had there's last week. Funny as hell, but if ya think about it, it's what things are coming to. The only thing we'll truly be able to openly celebrate are days that don't mean squat to anybody.

Fugg'em. More lights and bigger trees is all it means to me.