Removing Christ from Christmas

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.
New Line Cinema, which said it was dropped, had planned to play a loop of the new film on televisions at the event.
"The city does not want to appear to endorse one religion over another," said Cindy Gatziolis, a spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office of Special Events.
"Our guidance was that this very prominently placed advertisement would not only be insensitive to the many people of different faiths who come to enjoy the market for its food and unique gifts, but also it would be contrary to acceptable advertising standards suggested to the many festivals holding events on Daley Plaza," Jim Law, executive director of the office, said in a statement.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061128/D8LLRK9O0.html

Ah... It's for the good of the people.

My first impression is that we must be doing something right if the world will jump through such hoops of logic to protect itself from the Baby Jesus. Such an offensive display as the Christmas Story has no place in a Christmas Festival.

I'll agree that Jesus is offensive to the world... That is, if we're following Him in the right way. Sadly, the Mayor's office serves a higher power that would strike the Son of God from every facet of American Life - especially the Religious part. The world's religion, man's religion - religion without Jesus - is the goal, and always has been.

Nothing new here.