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the “Feats of Strength”</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scott Dredge<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 08, 2009
3:35 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> viz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Atheists
Want Sign at Capitol</span></font></p>
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If all else fails there's always 'Festivus for the Rest of Us' with my favorite
part, the 'airing of grievances'.<br>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festivus<br>
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-Scott</span></font></p>
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Sun, 6 Dec 2009 08:06:20 -0800<br>
From: donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com<br>
To: vision2020@moscow.com; thansen@moscow.com<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol</span></font></p>
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--- On <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Hansen <i><span
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From: Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br>
Subject: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol<br>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:09 PM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=inherit><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:inherit'>“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>
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Atheists want sign at Capitol<br>
Seattle group’s request coincides with tree-lighting<br>
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OLYMPIA – A Seattle-based atheists group asked state officials Friday for<br>
permission to display a placard outdoors on the Capitol campus over the<br>
holidays.<br>
<br>
Jerry Schiffelbein, the treasurer for Seattle Atheists and an activist in<br>
other “free-thought” groups that advocate separation between 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>
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The proposed 18-by-30-inch sign says, “In this holiday season let us<br>
remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief, creed or<br>
religion.”<br>
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The request to put up the sign came the day that state officials lit up a<br>
48-foot holiday tree inside the domed Capitol rotunda, a yearly tradition<br>
now entirely under state sponsorship. The evening event featured Gov.<br>
Chris Gregoire; Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McDowell, who recently returned<br>
from Iraq; and a children’s chorale.<br>
<br>
The atheists’ request – just like two requests to display a Jewish 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 dozen<br>
requests from groups wanting to put up displays, and a third-floor area<br>
for displays was getting crowded. The GA had approved a half-dozen of the<br>
requests, including a Nativity set, an atheist placard that mocked<br>
religion as superstition, Christian placards that mocked atheism, and a<br>
9-foot menorah.<br>
<br>
Requests halted by the moratorium included a “Festivus” pole from 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 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 one of<br>
two submitted by Chabad Jewish Discovery Center in Olympia for a 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>
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Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>
<br>
Tom Hansen<br>
Moscow, Idaho<br>
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"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
change<br>
and the Realist adjusts his sails."<br>
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- Unknown<br>
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