In Ashland, Oregon, they want to make sure that around CHRISTMAS TIME they show more secular symbols and less religious ones.
According to the new guidelines, displays in public areas should “represent the diversity of the season, and should avoid symbols with patently religious meanings,” including the manger scene, menorahs, angels or the Star of David.
If a tree is displayed, it should be surrounded with “symbols from various religious backgrounds, along with secular symbols,” the guidelines state.
These people are teaching children, mind you.
The Christmas tree did not begin as a religious symbol. It began as a pagan tradition and has come to be associated with the season. Essentially the “Christmas Tree” IS a secular symbol. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the Christmas season is complete w/o a tree, but I don’t mistake it for symbolizing Christ.
Dolts.
But, Ashland and Eugene, Oregon (and Portland) are well known for being liberal bastions and neither logic nor facts need apply.
They got owl lovers, tree huggers, duck squeezers, and bunny fluffers. Everything a progressive needs to feed off of.
Diversity of the season?? WTF??
Enough to make you want to upchuck in your shorts isn’t it?
Geez! Talk about chunkin’ in yo’ Fruit-o’-the-Looms. I tell you, anymore, its to the point that Political Correctness makes me feel homicidal.
I fucking want to wring necks…swing baseball bats…fist schnozolas…
Meanwhile, I know what sound an owl lover makes (whoo!), and a tree hugger (rustle-rustle), duck squeezers (@#$%^ !) – but what sound does a bunny fluffer make?
They don’t coo, do they? I’m not sure I could bear that.
You know when bugs bunny makes that nomming on carrots noise and noisily slurps. Bunny fluffin’ probably sounds like that, only a bit muffled.
Maybe bunnies can coo. I’m not going to go fluff one to find out.
Bunny fluffing makes a prrr sound, only less catty.
Aggie, are you thinking “pillows”-type fluffing or “fluffing”-type fluffing?
I tried fluffing a bunny once … they kicked me outta the club and took away my key, the bastages!
Lemur King, you are just playing semantic games here. Regardless of whether Christmas trees are religious or secular they are still deeply offensive to many people (and animals, for that matter).
And while many of them are made out of plastic (which comes from from oil) some are actually real, which means that they were murdered!
For these and many other reasons Christmas trees (along with the whole festival) should be banned outright.
Derek, actually a lot of us folks regard Christmas trees as erotic opportunities! We like to kinda rub up against them with our bulgy place , oog! oog! ya know?
Especially the murdered real ones. You know….because of the sap.
I like the sap part. And when the needles fall into my jockeys and I put them back on I get all hot again.
What do you rub up against when you’re alone, Derek?