Florida university bans Christmas decor


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FORT MYERS, FL, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A Florida university has annoyed many of its employees and students by ordering a complete ban on Christmas decorations in public areas. :huh:

That means Florida Gulf Coast University is not holding its greeting card contest this year, the Fort Myers News-Press reported. The giving tree in one building will be a "giving garden."

"Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how best to observe the season in ways that honor and respect all traditions," President Wilson Bradshaw wrote in a memo last week. "This is a challenging issue each year at FGCU, and 2008 is no exception. While it may appear at times that a vocal majority of opinion is the only view that is held, this is not always the case."

The Staff Advisory Council said it has received 44 comments -- all of them in favor of Christmas decorations. Students from various faiths also disagree with Bradshaw.

"I think they're pretty," Marilyn Lerner, a junior who is Jewish, said of the Christmas trees that graced the Student Union in earlier years. "It's just a Christmas tree. I don't mind."

Stephanie Tirado, a junior who practices Wicca, argued that the very commercialization of Christmas means it is not just a religious holiday. She said that the university could have added a menorah.

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"Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how best to observe the season in ways that honor and respect all traditions,"

By that logic, shouldn't they also ban pork and beef to honor the Muslims and Hindus that aren't allowed to eat them?

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"Public institutions, including FGCU, often struggle with how best to observe the season in ways that honor and respect all traditions," President Wilson Bradshaw wrote in a memo last week.

**** that, Christmas is Christmas, a Christian event. Stop being so ****ing pc.

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The make believe 'War on Christmas' comes earlier and earlier every year. It's not even Thanksgiving yet. I guess there is a certain demographic of people who get a hard-on hearing and talking about "The end of Christmas in Amerika!" Every freakin' year.

He says the decision was not an "attempt to suppress expression of the holiday spirit." Staffers will be permitted to display holiday decorations on their desks, but not on their office doors or in common spaces.

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the best part is that they would never ban anything for Hanukkah or Kwanzaa

what happened to freedom of expression?

Indeed, it seems these days that freedom of religion applies to all except Christianity. Florida University is comprised of morons, it seems. >.<

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OK...so now they're calling it a "Giving Garden". They already changed it from "Christmas Tree" to "Giving Tree". Now that's not good enough?

The tree isn't even part of the birth of Jesus Christ. It was added later by Christian groups (I can't remember the origin). So they're banning something that has become part of the faith. It's like the wiccan said, it shows the commercialization that Christmas has become. It's not like they're putting a cross out there.

Leave it alone. If you don't like it, don't look at it.

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It won't be long before Christmas is banned entirely. :no:

Bull. As someone already said Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If you instead support the commercialized holiday that focuses on economics rather than faith then I don't know how to help your world outlook.

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Bull. As someone already said Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If you instead support the commercialized holiday that focuses on economics rather than faith then I don't know how to help your world outlook.

what? :blink:

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Bull. As someone already said Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If you instead support the commercialized holiday that focuses on economics rather than faith then I don't know how to help your world outlook.

I also celebrate Christmas. Take your concerns to the PC crowd at FGCU!

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soon saying happy birthday will be wrong and how about we get rid of Easter while we are at it. wait st.Patrick's day is bad too get rid of that too. hell get rid of it all let the economy die.

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