Christian Newswire: NYC schools favor Jews & Muslims over Christians

NEW YORK, Nov. 21 /Christian Newswire/ -- Catholic League president Bill Donohue commented today on the Catholic League's on-going complaint with the New York City Board of Education regarding the display of crèches in the schools:

"On October 24, I wrote to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein asking to meet with him regarding the City's discriminatory holiday policy. 'There is no constitutional prohibition, or court ruling,' I said, 'that disallows the display of nativity scenes in the New York City public schools.' I am now in receipt of a letter from John DeMicoli of the Department of Education responding for the Chancellor. It is embarrassing to read.

"Mr. DeMicoli should be in school—there is no such word as 'Chreche' in the English language. Secondly, he says that the Department of Education's policy 'permits the display of holiday secular decorations with secular dimensions.' That's called a tautology: secular decorations can only have secular dimensions.

"Beyond that, he has the facts wrong: the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in 2006 that the Department's policy of allowing the display of Jewish religious symbols (menorah) and Islamic religious symbols (star and crescent) was constitutional because it did not deny Christians secular symbols (the Christmas tree). However, it stressed that the federal district court erred when it declared the menorah and the star and crescent secular in nature—they are clearly religious (New York City claimed that the Jewish and Islamic symbols were secular). Ergo, the Department of Education is denying Christians parity with Jews and Muslims by not allowing them to display their religious symbols. Moreover, the circuit court explicitly said, 'We do not here decide whether the City could, consistent with the Constitution, include a crèche in its holiday displays.'

"Accordingly, the Catholic League wants parity. We will contact Brian Ellner, Senior Counselor to the Chancellor, about this matter."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cl1121.htm

I sure missed hearing Christians blathering on about how they're so oppressed in this country.

It is a very late addition to the list of Jewish holidays. It belongs to the vast canon of light festivals, many of which are Christian. The likelihood, however, is that it was taken circuitously from Egypt which had a festival of the sun goose laying the golden sun egg. Circuitously because the Egyptian word for "goose" isn't used, but a derivation from "ghans" which is the indoeuropean root for "goose." I have no explanation whatsoever why the majority of Jewish holy days have indoeuropean-rooted names.

But if the Catholics want to see public Christmas trees banned, go for it, fellas.

I didn't think that when jesus was born the first thing that people thought was, "holy shit, lets set up a tree and put stuff we bought at the mall under it, THE SON OF GOD IS HERE!!!"

Totally disgusting. William Donohue has no faith in God if he has to rely on the Government to "save" him and his kind.

:grr: :sarcasm:

allow others to practice their own religious tenets w/o interference from either government or private citizens.

A little tolerance, from ALL sides, seems to be the goal, but it seems never to be attainable...:(

How do you spell Taliban? If Jesus came back he would SO kick Bill Donohue out of any temple!

Its the word for nativity scene, used by the Catholic Church, Donahue you mentally-challenged ogre. The damned leader of the Catholic League doesn't even know what a creche is? And if his defense is that it "isn't an English word", buy an English dictionary, dummy, and read it. It's French Catholic in origin, but is a perfectly good English word, too.

The rest of his article is so nonsensical and devoid of logic I don't even understand it, so in fairness I can't criticize it except to say he needs to learn to form things like sentences and ideas before he writes his crap.

The article is completely void of logic and I don't get it either. What I did get though is that someone mispelled 'creche' as 'cHreche' and someone was calling him out for it...hence the statement 'chreche isn't an english word'. It is not, creche is.

fuck 'em.

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Alan Keyes, Brent Bozell, III "Oh god there is more than one", Dinesh D'Souza, Lawrence Kudlow, Kate O'Beirne and William Simon, Jr.

Obviously they are well funded and a front group for the Radical Right...

And William Donohue, a lay version of father Coughlin, speaks for not one Catholic I know...

The League is nothing but a sham organization set up to invent persecution of Catholics...