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Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity"

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SouthernDemocrat said:
Yes, it is. The government is recognizing what is purely a religious holiday for a specific religion and giving employees that day off as a paid holiday.



Yes, promotion / endorsement by favoring it.



That is a subjective statement. Just because it is a belief that you hold does not mean that its not subjective.



Yes. Promote: To encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something



By the government recognizing a religious holiday that is specific to only one religion and is not secular in any way (there is no secularization of Good Friday like there is of Christmas), then the government is promoting that holiday as its giving its employees a Christian Holy Day as a paid holiday. That is my position. I have yet to hear from you why that is not an example of the government promoting or favoring a specific religion over other religions. '

As I stated earlier, I don't care that they give their employees Good Friday off, but let's call a spade a spade here. Giving Christians a paid Holy Day off is no different than a Muslim government giving its citizens a Muslim Holy Day as a paid day off. It is by definition the government favoring one religion over another.
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Again whether you like the issue or not is not the point of contention here. You obviously can't square the differences between what the words observation and promote are. You have still failed to justify or rationalize your initial claim that by observing the holiday of Good Friday (in this case) the government is "promoting" a religion. And if I am not mistaken you claimed it was specifically a "Catholic" holiday when in fact that is not correct either. How specifically is the government of Bloomington "promoting" any religion much less the Catholic one by observing a holiday?

Also I don't appreciate the literal hacking apart of my comments for internet arguments' purposes. Please simply formulate an intelligent and hopefully persuasive argument, and rely less on the literal of hacking apart of sentences. To use a phrase correctly, it is very hackish. ;)
 
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SouthernDemocrat said:
Yes, it is. The government is recognizing what is purely a religious holiday for a specific religion and giving employees that day off as a paid holiday.



Yes, promotion / endorsement by favoring it.



That is a subjective statement. Just because it is a belief that you hold does not mean that its not subjective.



Yes. Promote: To encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something



By the government recognizing a religious holiday that is specific to only one religion and is not secular in any way (there is no secularization of Good Friday like there is of Christmas), then the government is promoting that holiday as its giving its employees a Christian Holy Day as a paid holiday. That is my position. I have yet to hear from you why that is not an example of the government promoting or favoring a specific religion over other religions. '

As I stated earlier, I don't care that they give their employees Good Friday off, but let's call a spade a spade here. Giving Christians a paid Holy Day off is no different than a Muslim government giving its citizens a Muslim Holy Day as a paid day off. It is by definition the government favoring one religion over another.
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You have also committed the same fallacy as previous posters who argued this matter none too effectively. The given reason for this move (which may not stand very long) was not because the two holidays were somehow supposed to be "promoting" religion. That is your argument, not the city of Bloomington's stated justification. Their justification (which does not actually stand up to scrutiny either) is that this is all being done in the same of "cultural sensitivity" not because the two holidays are promoting religion. I've pointed this out more than once in this thread, thus far you and every other proponent of the "stupid" policy (your words) in the thread has shown an intractable inability to recognize that simple reality.

Last but not least, if you truly think this is a "stupid" move the then why are you trying to justify it and thus elevate it from stupid to not stupid? :thinking
 
MickeyW said:
Whenever you hear a liberal talking about cultural diversity and sensitivity it normally means something insensitive is about to happen to Christians.

The latest case in point: Bloomington, Indiana - the home of Indiana University and a nesting place for a gaggle of intolerant liberals.

Mayor John Hamilton recently announced that are renaming two paid holidays for city workers -- in an effort to respect "differing cultures."

Columbus Day will henceforth be known as "Fall Holiday" and Good Friday will be known as "Spring Holiday."
Town Renames "Good Friday" for the sake of "Cultural Sensitivity" — Todd Starnes
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What do you care - you certainly are not Christian since you don't act like one, so it is no skin off your nose.
 
SMTA said:
What do you care - you certainly are not Christian since you don't act like one, so it is no skin off your nose.
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Being Christian, doesn't mean I need to accept total crap from liberals....and I don't. But I still believe in God and treat my fellow man with respect...in a face to face encounter.....if they deserve respect. ;)

Your comments, only based on my writings here...are wrong.
 
MickeyW said:
Being Christian, doesn't mean I need to accept total crap from liberals....and I don't. But I still believe in God and treat my fellow man with respect...in a face to face encounter.....if they deserve respect. ;)

Your comments, only based on my writings here...are wrong.
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Very difficult to ignore your use of death to push your cause and the hateful way you address other people.

Absolutely not Christian behavior, but hypocritical and heresy.
 
SMTA said:
Very difficult to ignore your use of death to push your cause and the hateful way you address other people.

Absolutely not Christian behavior, but hypocritical and heresy.
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After being involved in politics for over 50 years, I'm totally fed up with the Lefty agenda and lies.

btw, is there a rule here that a poster needs to be full of empathy and compassion in any thread? I certainly didn't see it by liberals, with George Bush, or with any Conservative candidate in recent times. The comments on here and across the nation, bashing Bush, Palin, Coulter, McCain, Romney, Trump, et al, have been as anti-Christian as they can get.

Use of death to push my cause? I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. Would you clarify that?
 
MickeyW said:
After being involved in politics for over 50 years, I'm totally fed up with the Lefty agenda and lies.

btw, is there a rule here that a poster needs to be full of empathy and compassion in any thread? I certainly didn't see it by liberals, with George Bush, or with any Conservative candidate in recent times. The comments on here and across the nation, bashing Bush, Palin, Coulter, McCain, Romney, Trump, et al, have been as anti-Christian as they can get.

Use of death to push my cause? I don't even know what that is supposed to mean. Would you clarify that?
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That's a pretty fair point, particularly when you consider that this poster's entire post to you was nothing but an ill conceived ad hominem personal insult. Even leaving off the bizarre 'use of death' part of the petty insult, SMTA could not even manage to address the topic. And yes I would have to agree with you, based upon what I have seen from many self described "liberal" posters at DP, once you see the term "cultural diversity" what you are about the see next is the attempt to rationalize the removal of cultural diversity by altering holiday names and traditions for the sake of political correctness and in the name of so called diversity. ;)
 
Sardonicus said:
That's a pretty fair point, particularly when you consider that this poster's entire post to you was nothing but an ill conceived ad hominem personal insult. Even leaving off the bizarre 'use of death' part of the petty insult, SMTA could not even manage to address the topic. And yes I would have to agree with you, based upon what I have seen from many self described "liberal" posters at DP, once you see the term "cultural diversity" what you are about the see next is the attempt to rationalize the removal of cultural diversity by altering holiday names and traditions for the sake of political correctness and in the name of so called diversity. ;)
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Fully agree. You seem to have their number, as do I. ;)
 
Burn it all down one stick at a time... !!!!
 
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