Susan, email me privately for celebration details. ;-) As for the unanimousity (is that a word? It is now!) of the Ramadan resolution, it had 42 votes of "present". We may be straining at gnats and swallowing camels here, but that hardly seems "unanimous" to me.
Jean On Dec 16, 2007, at Sun, Dec 16, 12:28 AM, Susan Freiman wrote: > Jean, I'll be glad to celebrate with you, whatever holidays you like! > > I'd be interested to know how the Islam resolution passed unanimously, > and Christianity had nine votes against. Maybe for Islam a lot of > Representatives were absent? > > Are we getting too far off topic and annoying people here? If so, I'm > sorry, and I'll stop. > > Susan > > Jean Dudley wrote: >> On Dec 15, 2007, at Sat, Dec 15, 9:36 PM, Gordon James >> Klingenschmitt wrote: >> >> >>> Actually, Jean and Susan, you've already "lived long enough" to see >>> a House resolution like this passed honoring other >>> religions....including Islam....unanimously this year. >>> >> >> I stand corrected, Mr. Klingenschmitt. Would you kindly cite the >> resolution numbers for the following honored religions? >> >> Wicca >> Buddhism >> Shinto >> Zorastrian >> Judaism >> Asatru >> Secular Humanism/Atheism (prolly not religions, but hey, I've heard >> Christians arguing that they were, so why not?) >> >> My point still stands. In a country dominated by Christians, isn't >> it self-serving to "honor" themselves? Especially in light of the >> recent attack on Jews in a New York subway by self-identified >> Christians? Neither sounds very Christian to me. Christianity is >> the default; Our legal holidays are based on many Christian >> holidays. Non-Christians are ridiculed, attacked, defamed and have >> to fight for our rights at every turn. >> >> Jean >> Blessed Yuletide in the names of the Oak and Holly kings, and the >> Maiden, Mother and Crone. I'll see your Jesus, and raise you a >> pantheon. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see >> http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw >> >> Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed >> as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages >> that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list >> members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed > as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages > that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members > can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
