Thread: NY: Plan Allows Nativity At Christmas!

Finally, some common sense to stop the discrimination of Christians.


HOLIDAY BLUES
Plan allows Nativity at Christmas!
Schools already authorize menorah, star and crescent



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Posted: January 17, 2009
12:00 am Eastern

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Nativity

The New York City Council is working on a proposal that would allow a Christmas Nativity scene to be displayed in public schools during winter holiday seasons beside an Islamic star and crescent and a Jewish menorah.

According to a report from the Thomas More Law Center, the council heard testimony from law center attorney Brian Rooney and comments from Bill Donohue of the Catholic League this week on a proposal that would end a long-standing policy of discrimination against Christians in the public schools at Christmas.

The district for years authorized displays of the Islamic star and crescent and the Jewish menorah, yet completely banned the display of Nativity scenes.

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Council member Tony Avella introduced a resolution that asks the New York Department of Education to halt the discrimination.

The resolution cites policy that allows the display of various symbols "as long as they are displayed together temporarily during the winter holiday season" and a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals conclusion that a Nativity is constitutional as part of such holiday displays.

"Resolved, That the Council of the City of New York calls upon the Department of Education to amend its holiday display policy for New York City's public elementary and secondary schools, to allow a crèche or Nativity scene to be displayed during the winter holiday season in the same manner it allows other religious symbols," the resolution states.

Rooney said, "The star and crescent and menorah are religious symbols that serve the DOE' secular learning purpose. A crèche is no different. Discrimination is discrimination, and the DOE' policy has the effect of being discriminatory. By excluding the crèche, the DOE' policy current policy is internally inconsistent, objectively hostile and bigoted, and it must be changed."

The resolution was generated after the Thomas More Law Center sued the district on behalf of Andrea Skoros and her two children, Catholics who wanted to display a Nativity scene at Christmas.

The 2nd Circuit Court said the menorah and star and crescent are in fact religious symbols – contrary to the DOE policy. Although the court did not rule that displaying a Nativity scene would be unconstitutional, its reasoning allowing for the menorah and star and crescent make clear that if the school system wanted to place a crèche in schools, this, too, would be constitutional, the law center said.

The city school policy has expressly allowed the menorah to be displayed as a symbol of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, and the star and crescent to be displayed as a symbol of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.

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What has an islamic star and crescent to do with Christmas? Channuka is around the time of Christmas and christians sprang from hebrews. But what muslim holiday is being shared? Now...we have to allow those 'symbols' which have absolutely nothing to do with Jesus' birth because muslims do not celebrate Christmas. If a small amount of muslims in this country like to celebrate Christmas just for the fun of it, what has that to do with displaying the moon and star? This is an unnecessary appeasement. Trojan horses are stomping us to death. We had better wake up or we will die in the darkness.

How nice for them to let us have some rights for a change.

Originally Posted by crazybird

How nice for them to let us have some rights for a change.

don't get used to it, berry will make sure it doesn't happen again

I cannot believe that this has not been corrected these past years while allowing all of the other symbols.

Psalm 91

How in the world did we get America into this kind of mess? Political correctness toward those that destroy what this country stands for in its origins is stupid. How many instances of businesses needing to provide special considerations for their employees who pray five times a day and need footbaths before prayer? How about the cashier that will not cash you out because you have bought pork?
If I am not mistaken, Islam rose about 600 years after the birth of Christianity. Why are we giving up our heritage and teaching children that heritage because it might upset someone that does not share our appreciation of our heritage or culture? If they don't like it, go home.

I'm glad to here Americans fighting back now.

Enough of being asleep at the wheel with the PC nonsense. If we want to leave our children any resemblance of the place we grew up in, we had all better keep speaking up and get involved in saving our country.