It's Christmas, but you can't tell anyone...

Tuesday , November 28, 2006

CHICAGO - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story,
the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas
festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio
as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story"
might offend non-Christians.

New Line Cinema, which said it was dropped, had planned to play a loop of
the new film on televisions at the event. The decision had both the studio
and a prominent Christian group shaking their heads.

"The last time I checked, the first six letters of Christmas still spell out
Christ," said Paul Braoudakis, spokesman for the Barrington, Ill.-based
Willow Creek Association, a group of more than 11,000 churches of various
denominations. "It's tantamount to celebrating Lincoln's birthday without
talking about Abraham Lincoln."

He also said that there is a nativity scene in Daley Plaza - and that some
vendors at the festival sell items related to the nativity.

Dirk Diggler wrote:

not allowed to do anything these days

Indie Rock Pete wrote:

On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 14:25:56 +1100, longroad
optusnetremove.com.au> wrote:

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:42:58 -0500, "Dirk Diggler" dirk.org>
wrote:

this is so last year. get over it and quit trying to start shit.