Seattle Airport Really Just Doesn’t Want To Recognize Religion Exists

J.J. Jackson* | December 11, 2006

By now many of your have heard of the decision by the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s decision to take down the Christmas Tree which they claim was not a Christmas Tree) to avoid putting up a menorah.

Airport’s trees stoking “war on Christmas”

The departure of Christmas tree displays at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport — the Port of Seattle’s response to a local rabbi’s insistence that an electric menorah also be put up — is accelerating into an international spectacle in the so-called “war on Christmas.”
And that is not what Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky wanted.

“I am devastated, shocked and appalled at the decision that the Port of Seattle came to,” he said Sunday. As news coverage about the airport’s trees spread from CNN to ABC to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, Bogomilsky on Sunday began to receive hateful messages from people holding him responsible for the removal of the trees.

Harvey Grad, the rabbi’s attorney, said the vitriol against Bogomilsky is misplaced, emphasizing that the rabbi neither objected to the trees nor said he found them offensive.

“The last thing we need is anyone thinking that Jews want to end the celebration of Christmas on public property,” Grad said.

I don’t think that at all. In fact, judging by the further facts of the case I would say that what this is really is simply an excuse by people who are already secularists to remove the last vestiges of Christmas from the Airport. How so? Look at their justification:

The airport has no policy governing the longtime holiday display because no one has ever challenged it before, Betancourt said.

“What we have are holiday trees,” she said. “If we are going to display symbols representing other cultures, we have to think what that means and what’s respectful and what would make a good display. Maybe it would be ‘Holidays of the World.’

“Or maybe it’s snowmen.”

What the Hell is a “Holiday Tree”? There is not really such a thing except to those that want to put up Christmas trees to appease the vast majority of Americans who are Christians while not admitting that the vast majority of Americans are Christians. That way when the vast majority of Americans come into the Airport they think the airport shares their values. Then behind the scenes they are simply saying basically “Screw the vast majority of Americans. Give them their damn trees so that they’ll continue to patronize us and keep off our backs but they are just ‘Holdiay Trees’! SUCKERS!”

They secularized the Christmas Tree into “Holiday Tree” to appease themselves and the vast minority of Americans and then they saw this as ultimately an excuse to remove the tree. Plain and simple.

I know not a single Christian that would be offended by there being a menorah(s) up as well. And when you count Christians and Jews together they are an even greater majority of Americans. So who would not want to put up the menorah? Who would want to take down the Christmas Trees? Apparently someone in the vast minority just looking for an excuse to do so.

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