Appeals Court Rules Against Nativity but for Menorah and Star and Cresent

How does a person become elevated to a position on the Appeals Court and hold such nonsense in their head? The New York City school system's policy for holiday displays limited them to secular only. Yet they held that the Jewish menorah and the Islamic star and crescent were secular, but the Nativity scene religious. So a mother sued on behalf of her children.

Here's the rub. The court ruled that the Jewish menorah and the Islamic star and crescent were indeed religious as well as the Nativity, but allowed the Jewish and Islamic symbols and banned the Christian!

A divided federal appeals-court panel ruled New York City schools can ban the display of the Christian Nativity during Christmas while permitting a Jewish menorah and the Islamic star and crescent during Hanukkah and Ramadan.

The Thomas More Law Center, which brought the case on behalf of Andrea Skoros and her two elementary school children, called the 2-1 decision Thursday by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan "another outrageous example of federal courts discriminating against Christians."

The city argues the menorah and star and crescent are permissible symbols because they are "secular," whereas the Nativity scene must be excluded because it is "purely religious."

The majority, in fact, said the city's argument was fallacious, stating that the policy "mischaracterizes" these symbols, but still upheld the ban on the Christian Nativity.

Robert Muise, Thomas More's attorney handling the case, called it a "shocking decision" that should outrage Christians.

"We strongly believe that the majority decision is fundamentally flawed, as pointed out by the dissent, and we intend to take this fight to the next level," he said. "This battle is far from over."

Christians in New York are now rioting and burning at the blasphemous ruling of the courts wait, that's Moslems around the world that are doing all that because of cartoons they don't like. Here in the state of NY Christians are taking it all in stride, moving through the system and relying on the law. If it were a Moslem saying "we intend to take this fight to the next level," everyone would be moving their cars off the street and hiring body guards.