[Vision2020] Christmas Craft Fun Day

[John Pool]

Donovan,

 

While you might be right that the folks who support the separation of
church and state would find in this event something else to rail about, I
think it's going to be a hard sell. Although Christmas remains a Christian
holiday, it has been very much secularized. Government offices are closed
for Christmas, as are most businesses. Indeed much of the rest of the
western world, Christian or not, observes the holiday. A good friend of
mine, a Muslim in a family of Muslims, wrote me recently to comment that she
was often "cheated" out of birthday presents (her birthday is Dec. 27) while
growing up because her Christmas presents were supposed to suffice for both
celebrations.

 

I also rather suspect (although I don't *know*) that the facility was rented
to The Grange for their event. If that was the case, then I think the
location is purely incidental to the purpose of the event, sponsored as it
is by a fraternal organization with no particular religious ties.

 

There may be a rabid separatist "out there" who sees this event as being the
thin wedge, but I would be very surprised if she or he would want to expend
much human capital on this particular matter.

 

John Pool

 

 

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Donovan Arnold
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:57 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com; lfalen
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Christmas Craft Fun Day

 


Uh Oh, Roger!

 

A Christian event on publicly owned and funded property?!?! Here comes the
segregation of Church and State crowd. ;D

 

Your Friend,

 

Donovan Arnold

 



--- On Sat, 12/12/09, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:


From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Subject: [Vision2020] Christmas Craft Fun Day
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 3:14 AM

The Grange is sponsoring a Christmas Craft Fund Day on Sunday December 13
From2-5 p.m. in the Kitchen area at the Fair grounds. This would be a good
time for kids to make presents for Christmas.
Roger 

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