I think the 9 votes against includes representatives who thought the Christmas resolution could be interpreted as a governmental endorsement of religion - not so with the other resolutions.
Jean Dudley wrote: >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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
