Tuesday, November 28, 2006
CHRISTMAS IN CHICAGO? HIDE YOUR BABY JESUS
No this story is for real even though it seems like something I would make up. From the suntimes.com website:
No 'Nativity Story' ads at Christmas market: city
November 28, 2006
BY DON BABWIN City officials sent a message to a movie studio that hoped to help sponsor a Christmas festival with ads for a film about the night Mary and Joseph couldn't find a room at the inn: There's no room for you.
Worried that ads for "The Nativity Story" would offend non-Christians shopping at downtown's traditional German Christkindlmarket, the city asked the German American Chamber of Commerce to reconsider New Line Cinema, which made the film, as a sponsor.
The group then told the studio it would not be part of the bazaar that began Thursday.
The reasoning has at least one prominent Christian group shaking its head. "The last time I checked, the first six letters of Christmas still spell out Christ," said Paul Braoudakis of the Willow Creek Association, a group of more than 11,000 churches.
Besides, he said, there's a nativity scene on display at Daley Plaza, and some vendors sell items related to the nativity.
But city officials say advertising plans, including a loop of the new film that was to be played on TVs at the festival, might offend non-Christians, and run "contrary to acceptable advertising standards suggested to the many festivals holding events on Daley Plaza." AP
You'll have to excuse me but if you are at a CHRISTmas festival wouldn't you kinda sorta maybe in some way shape or form think you might see a depiction of BABY JESUS? MARY? JOSEPH? Hell, how about a stray wise man or magi or some $#(*&^#( talking farm animals??? If I'm in Mecca, I'd expect to see a mosque. If I go to a synagogue, um I would not be offended by a menorah. Great googamooga. It is a Christmas festival unless you are a complete and total moron expect to see CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN IMAGES. My only guess is now Mayor Daley comes to the rescue and rescinds the orders issued by his own bureaucratic boobs. Next year is an election year ya know. Although, Mayor Daley could probably drop kick the Christ Child straight out of the manger and still win because he's a Dimocrat, and that is something, unlike God, the corrupt city of Chi-town can't do without.
No 'Nativity Story' ads at Christmas market: city
November 28, 2006
BY DON BABWIN City officials sent a message to a movie studio that hoped to help sponsor a Christmas festival with ads for a film about the night Mary and Joseph couldn't find a room at the inn: There's no room for you.
Worried that ads for "The Nativity Story" would offend non-Christians shopping at downtown's traditional German Christkindlmarket, the city asked the German American Chamber of Commerce to reconsider New Line Cinema, which made the film, as a sponsor.
The group then told the studio it would not be part of the bazaar that began Thursday.
The reasoning has at least one prominent Christian group shaking its head. "The last time I checked, the first six letters of Christmas still spell out Christ," said Paul Braoudakis of the Willow Creek Association, a group of more than 11,000 churches.
Besides, he said, there's a nativity scene on display at Daley Plaza, and some vendors sell items related to the nativity.
But city officials say advertising plans, including a loop of the new film that was to be played on TVs at the festival, might offend non-Christians, and run "contrary to acceptable advertising standards suggested to the many festivals holding events on Daley Plaza." AP
You'll have to excuse me but if you are at a CHRISTmas festival wouldn't you kinda sorta maybe in some way shape or form think you might see a depiction of BABY JESUS? MARY? JOSEPH? Hell, how about a stray wise man or magi or some $#(*&^#( talking farm animals??? If I'm in Mecca, I'd expect to see a mosque. If I go to a synagogue, um I would not be offended by a menorah. Great googamooga. It is a Christmas festival unless you are a complete and total moron expect to see CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN IMAGES. My only guess is now Mayor Daley comes to the rescue and rescinds the orders issued by his own bureaucratic boobs. Next year is an election year ya know. Although, Mayor Daley could probably drop kick the Christ Child straight out of the manger and still win because he's a Dimocrat, and that is something, unlike God, the corrupt city of Chi-town can't do without.
