In article > ,
helco > wrote:

> 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

Please read what I mean and not what I say. Let the "solstice" begin.
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Billy

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