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More Christmas Exclusivity Demanded

By Ed Brayton

pWashington is not the only place having a fight over religions other than Christianity having access to put up public displays. The city of Armonk, New York has a a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.viewpageId=83620"similar fight/a going on and the same people throwing a fit about the atheist sign in Washington are throwing a fit about Muslim symbols being included in a public holiday display in that town. /p blockquoteThe decision by a New York village to place the Islamic star and crescent alongside the community's official Christmas tree has a Catholic leader wondering if there are any wise men among the town's leaders. pSupervisors for Armonk, N.Y. voted to display a menorah and a star and crescent at tonight's Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the town's gazebo./p p"We've decided to go in the direction of being all-inclusive," Supervisor Reese Berman told Associated Press. /blockquote/p a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/more_christmas_exclusivity_dem.php"Read the rest of this post.../a | a href="http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/12/more_christmas_exclusivity_dem.php#commentsArea"Read the comments on this post.../aimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/scienceblogs/dispatches/~4/487662024" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).