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SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State University administrators decided Thursday morning to put a Christmas tree (not the one in this photo) back in the lobby of Strong Hall, along with other religious holiday symbols. A department head removed the 20-foot tree on Monday after a faculty member who is Jewish complained that it was insensitive to other religions.
After learning about the complaint and the removal of the tree, administrators scheduled a meeting for Friday afternoon to discuss appropriate holiday decorations at the school. That meeting is now canceled.
“We decided this is the right thing to do, and I am glad there was widespread agreement about it,” President Mike. Nietzel said in a news release. “Missouri State is an institution at which many different religions are represented, and we try to be sensitive to the many views people hold.
“After having had a chance to air this out a bit more and consider the various perspectives of our campus community, I am happy that the Christmas tree will be back up along with the many others that were already on campus. I hope we can have it on display before the end of the day.”Courts have ruled Christmas trees are secular symbols if they do not bear religious decorations. The department head who put the tree up said she didn’t use any religious symbols on it.
I thought a Christmas tree was a pagan symbol.
Political Correctness- Trying to please one group and end up pissing everyone else off by doing it.
Political Correctness- An accusatory slur used to silence political rivals and simultaneously give the accuser license to act like an asshat toward whatever group he/she’s prejudiced against.
#28 – The same Jewish moron who complaint about christmas tree’s “insensitivity to other religions” would call it at least “prejudism” if any christian would have complaint about menorrah or David star being displayed.
Is that in the article? Did the “Jewish moron” actually say this? No? I thought as much.
35, you bet if anyone would have ever question displaying a David’s Star it would have been treated as act of antisemitism rather than “insensitive to other religions”.
I wish I could have been there when that idiot complained about the Christmas tree… I would have kicked his ass really hard! Ha! The Hutzpa!!
When I first read about this problem surfacing I thought it was a joke! How dare they?! P.C is one the most dangerous enemies of humanity and democracy. How dare they pull down a symbol of christianity ?! I can understand that happening in a muslim country – but in the US?!?! And what’s offensive about that?! How Christmas is offensive?! How is a beautiful decorated tree offensive?! It makes me SO angry – And I am a Jew from ISRAEL!
If someone would have told my wife not to light those Sabath candles because they find it offensive I would have buried him under 10 tons of concrete so no one will ever find him.
Every-time I read about one of these incidents my blood boils. I have a message for my Christian brothers and sisters: DO NOT LET ANYONE TAKE DOWN ANY SYMBOL OF YOUR FAITH, RELIGION AND BELIEFS! NOTHING!!! NADA, NOT A SINGLE STEP BACK!
You are Christians – be proud of that! Celebrate it!
Is a Christmas tree a religious symbol? It’s the number one holiday poll on this site: http://www.apopularitycontest.com/poll_category.php?category=Holidays So far 135 people voted on it, and most are saying no.