CHICAGO (AP) - 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.
“Free Country”?
A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.
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’s processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C. for knowingly hiring illegal aliens.
City council approves study program on Israel initiated by Israeli Consulate in New York; program to be integrated into training program for educators teaching in 1,400 public high schools. This is obviously an indoctrination/revisionist program to re-educate our children to view Israel in a particular light.
Why can’t our children be taught correct American history in our schools? Why do we have a foreign nation adding to our educational system? Questions must be asked.
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