<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>We just want to celebrate Winter Solstice, as all days he gives us, with Christ. :P</DIV>
<DIV>Inclusiveness is the better way. </DIV>
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<DIV>Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan Arnold<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sun, 12/6/09, Paul <SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>Rumelhart</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> <I><godshatter@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Paul <SPAN>Rumelhart</SPAN> <godshatter@yahoo.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<BR>To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com><BR>Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>, "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5:33 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Almost as much as when they try to ruin my winter solstice :)<BR><BR>Paul<BR><BR>Donovan Arnold wrote:<BR>> Don't ya just hate it when groups try to ruin your Christmas?<BR>> <BR>> Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,<BR>> <BR>> Donovan Arnold<BR>><BR>> --- On *Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Hansen /<<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>>/* wrote:<BR>><BR>><BR>> From: Tom Hansen <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<BR>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<A href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com"
ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:09 PM<BR>><BR>> “In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and<BR>> goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion.”<BR>><BR>> Courtesy of today's (December 6, 2009) Spokesman Review.<BR>><BR>> ------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> Atheists want sign at Capitol<BR>> Seattle group’s request coincides with tree-lighting<BR>><BR>> OLYMPIA – A Seattle-based atheists group asked state officials<BR>> Friday for<BR>> permission to display a placard outdoors on the Capitol campus<BR>> over
the<BR>> holidays.<BR>><BR>> Jerry Schiffelbein, the treasurer for Seattle Atheists and an<BR>> activist in<BR>> other “free-thought” groups that advocate separation between<BR>> church and<BR>> state, said the sign’s message is less provocative than those that the<BR>> Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation put up last year.<BR>><BR>> The proposed 18-by-30-inch sign says, “In this holiday season let us<BR>> remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief,<BR>> creed or<BR>> religion.”<BR>><BR>> The request to put up the sign came the day that state officials<BR>>
lit up a<BR>> 48-foot holiday tree inside the domed Capitol rotunda, a yearly<BR>> tradition<BR>> now entirely under state sponsorship. The evening event featured Gov.<BR>> Chris Gregoire; Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McDowell, who recently<BR>> returned<BR>> from Iraq; and a children’s chorale.<BR>><BR>> The atheists’ request – just like two requests to display a Jewish<BR>> menorah<BR>> Thursday through Dec. 19 – will be considered under the state policy<BR>> adopted after last December’s ruckus over holiday displays inside the<BR>> Capitol, Department of General Administration spokesman Steve Valandra<BR>>
said Friday. He expects a decision on the requests Monday.<BR>><BR>> “We thought we would get more requests. There is still time,” he said.<BR>><BR>> Last December, the GA declared a moratorium because it had about a<BR>> dozen<BR>> requests from groups wanting to put up displays, and a third-floor<BR>> area<BR>> for displays was getting crowded. The GA had approved a half-dozen<BR>> of the<BR>> requests, including a Nativity set, an atheist placard that mocked<BR>> religion as superstition, Christian placards that mocked atheism,<BR>> and a<BR>> 9-foot menorah.<BR>><BR>> Requests halted by the moratorium
included a “Festivus” pole from<BR>> the mock<BR>> holiday celebrated on the TV show “Seinfeld,” a “flying spaghetti<BR>> monster,” and one from a Kansas church that assails homosexuality.<BR>><BR>> Before the controversy ended, someone stole the atheists’ placard.<BR>> Thousands of complaints flooded the governor’s office and the GA<BR>> after a<BR>> national television commentator condemned the state for allowing the<BR>> atheists’ display near the Nativity scene.<BR>><BR>> The GA has approved one display request so far this year. It was<BR>> one of<BR>> two submitted by Chabad Jewish Discovery Center in Olympia for a<BR>>
9-foot<BR>> menorah. The approved request is for Sylvester Park, a state-owned<BR>> property in downtown Olympia; the other is for a menorah next to the<BR>> Tivoli Fountain on the campus lawn.<BR>><BR>> ------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> Seeya round town, Moscow.<BR>><BR>> Tom Hansen<BR>> Moscow, Idaho<BR>><BR>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it<BR>> to change<BR>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."<BR>><BR>> - Unknown<BR>><BR>><BR>> =======================================================<BR>> List services made
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