'Nativity' Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair

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chicago said:
A nativity which is the old official city manger set. It used to be set up in the rotunda of City Hall/County Building. Then they trashed it. It, literally, got pulled out of the trash by some good people. That about the time that this private group got a permit to set it up annually in the plaza. It’s also when other groups added a menorah and an Islamic tribute. The market came later, in the past few years.
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And I think the idea of having multiple religious displays is the perfect answer to all our Constitutional issues surrounding these kind of things. Have a nativity? Sure have a menorah and a Crescent display too. Want to post a 10 Commandments sculpture? Have a Statue of Vishnu and a Buddha too.

Perhaps if they had balanced the Nativity movie with The 10 Commandments (the old one with Heston) and an Islamic movie of some sort (most likely imported and subtitled) or a Hindu film (surely Bollywood has something) or a Buddhist film…
 
Funny - a year ago I was at the Christkindlmarkt in Vienna & there didn’t seem to be any concessions to non-Christians there.

If you have the time & the means, I would highly recommend going to the Middle European countries during the Advent & Christmas seasons. That part of the world seems to be every American’s dream of the holidays: mountains & quaint old towns dusted with snow. The real German Christmas markets are wonderful, especially all the sweet treats they sell there!
 
Why are non-Christian even going to an event that celebrates Christmas? I’m not African American so I don’t celebrate Kwanza or attend those event. I’m not Muslim so I don’t celebrate Ramadan or attend those events. I’m not Jewish so I don’t celebrate Yom Kippur or Chanukkah or attend those events. If I did attend those events, I sure wouldn’t expect them to be concerned about offending me. I don’t understand why anyone who would be offended would bother going. Why is it that if you are offended by my Christian celebration, your right to not be offended supercedes my right to have the celebration? Now if the festival is just about money, then name it something else. How about the Money Changer and Tax Collectors Market?
 
mom2boyz said:
Why are non-Christian even going to an event that celebrates Christmas?
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Because of the tasty German sausages! Seriously, there is some really good food down there. And as noted, there is a Nativity. And Christmas tree, and ornaments and such.
 
mom2boyz said:
Why are non-Christian even going to an event that celebrates Christmas? I’m not African American so I don’t celebrate Kwanza or attend those event. I’m not Muslim so I don’t celebrate Ramadan or attend those events. I’m not Jewish so I don’t celebrate Yom Kippur or Chanukkah or attend those events. If I did attend those events, I sure wouldn’t expect them to be concerned about offending me. I don’t understand why anyone who would be offended would bother going. Why is it that if you are offended by my Christian celebration, your right to not be offended supercedes my right to have the celebration? Now if the festival is just about money, then name it something else. How about the Money Changer and Tax Collectors Market?
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Now wouldn’t you say if you did go to a festival for another religion, wouldn’t you actually want to see a comparable movie? My assumption is if chances are if your going, it probably means you are a bit interested in the religion, and not necessarily to look to see if you want to convert, but because you are a bit curious as to the culture of the religion.
 
a_cermak said:
Because of the tasty German sausages! Seriously, there is some really good food down there. And as noted, there is a Nativity. And Christmas tree, and ornaments and such.
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And a big courthouse that lots of lawyers go in and out of everyday!
 
If I made the effort to go, I wouldn’t be offended at someone else’s religious celebration. If I went it would be to either enjoy what the celebration had to offer (good food for example) or to see what it was about. When I went to the Hispanic Festival, I wasn’t expecting to see an American Flag. I wasn’t thinking about becoming Mexican either. I wasn’t offended that they had music in Spanish instead of English. There is no mandate that anyone has to attend any kind of celebration with which they don’t agree. That is the beauty of being American. You can choose to stay home or go somewhere else.
 
a_cermak said:
Because of the tasty German sausages! Seriously, there is some really good food down there. And as noted, there is a Nativity. And Christmas tree, and ornaments and such.
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The Muslims and Jews are not supposed to be eating pork and most of the sausages contain pork, Hindus are not supposed to eat meat so that lets them out. Only the Buddhist are left as a mainstream religion and I don’t think you would see a lot of them there and even if you did I find it hard to believe they would be offended by a movie ad. I think only the secularist would be offended.
 
chicago said:
Which begs the question, “Just who works for the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and what are these person’s perspectives?”
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Most are Democrats and most are Catholic. I know some of them.
 
Hugh Hewitt purchased a theater full (250) of tickets for a showing of The Nativity for all Chicago city employees including the mayor. Hewitt has been on this all week stating Mayor D.“does not like baby Jesus”. I love it!!
 
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