The Latest Attack In The War On Christmas
CNN has the Associated Press story: Seattle airport removes Christmas trees to avoid lawsuit
After consulting with lawyers, port staff believed that adding the menorah would have required adding symbols for other religions and cultures in the Northwest. The holidays are the busiest season at the airport, Betancourt said, and staff didn’t have time to play cultural anthropologists.
Hanukkah begins this Friday at sundown.
“They’ve darkened the hall instead of turning the lights up,” said Bogomilsky’s lawyer, Harvey Grad. “There is a concern here that the Jewish community will be portrayed as the Grinch.”
Rabbi Bogomilsky wanted a menorah added among the Teutonic solstice symbols, and yes, Mr. Grad, Rush and O’Reilly will be “thundering” about this attack on symbols sacred only to followers of the ancient Teutonic gods that were introduced to the English speaking world by the German consort of a British queen in the 19th century and copied by American magazines.
While the “thundering” of the media voices will not be the same as the thundering of the hooves of Cossack horses that gave rise to the term “pogrom”, it will be bad enough in its own way.
I might add that threatening lawsuits is not exactly friendly, nor is it indicative of a “real holiday spirit.”
