FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - Zionist pressure group ADL offers solution to the "December Dilemma"of European Christmas celebrations

helco

Billy wrote:
> In article >,
> "Sanity" > wrote:
>
>> "Jim34" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 'Every December schools and local governments are confronted with the
>>> question of how to approach the holidays without favoring onereligious
>>> faith over another or making some feel uncomfortable because their
>>> religious background is different from others.
>>>
>>> To help negotiate the "December Dilemma," the Anti-Defamation League
>>> (ADL) provides public schools and government institutions nationwide
>>> with materials and information on how to keep public recognition of
>>> the December holidays respectful, welcoming and constitutionally
>>> permissible.'
>>>
>>> http://www.adl.org/PresRele/RelChStSep_90/5183_90.htm
>> What pressure are they guilty of? Asking that schools and local governments
>> be sensitive to everyone's religion or beliefs? Asking them not to
>> emphasize one over the other so as not to hurt anyones feeling? No where in
>> the article did I read anything that prohibits schools or local governments
>> from celebrating the holidays as long as it's done with sensitivity and
>> equality. Is that wrong?
>
> Whether we are talking Kwanzaa, Hanukah, Christmas, Ramadan, or Yuletide
> Season, I think that "Happy Holidays" is the most respectful common
> denominator that we can use. The equinox seems to mean a re-focusing on
> the eternally important things in our cultures.
>
> "If I can be in our dream, you can be in mine." - Bob Zimmerman

Um -- this is the winter solstice, not the equinox.

helco