Pffft, this is NOTHING compared to what happened in my home town last year. Check this out. Basically, one of the local Roman Catholic Priests blessed the town CHRISTMAS TREE in a park on the main street in town, to which the Town Supervisor scolded him because it's a "HOLIDAY tree, not Christmas", it made the cover of the NY Post... people are morons. Story and link are below.
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Most members of the community are well aware of the controversy about what occurred on Dec. 3 at the annual tree lighting ceremony on the Mary Jane Davies Green, with residents' outrage first published in the Letters to the Editor section in the Dec. 8 issue of the Manhasset Press. Father Nick Zientarski from St. Mary's parish was asked to give the blessing, a longstanding component of the ceremony, with local religious leaders participating on a rotating basis. What have been called "dismissive utterances" by Town Supervisor Jon Kaiman during and his "insensitive words" following Father Zientarski's blessing, has received front-page coverage in major daily newspapers. Father Zientarski delivered a religious blessing for all and blessed the Christmas tree for which Kaiman soundly criticized him. Father Zientarski was informed by an angry supervisor that it was not a Christmas tree, but a holiday tree and that it was not a religious ceremony. Kaiman has said since that at the time he believed the blessing inappropriate on public property, but now agrees his assumption was wrong.
As one resident who witnessed the outburst said, "A public scolding is never appropriate, even for a child, and it is proven not to be an effective way to bring about change, if in fact that is what the supervisor wanted. He could have made his point differently, and been more of a statesman." Many question the supervisor's reflexive comments and are angry their celebration of a Christmas tree lighting was challenged.
http://www.antonnews.com/manhassetpr...05/12/16/news/