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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

20071210 The Wisconsin Christmas Tree War by Jeff Westover

The Wisconsin Christmas Tree War

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Post by Jeff Westover. December 10, 2007

Filed under Religious Discrimination, Church & State, Political Correctness, Christmas in Public, Christmas News, Christmas in the Courts. No Comments.

The 35-foot tall balsam fir standing proudly in the rotunda of the Wisconsin Capitol is a familiar annual December display, but it’d be a mistake to call it a “Christmas tree,” much to the dismay of one Badger State lawmaker now leading a legislative fight to change the name of the evergreen.

The General Assembly is expected to vote Tuesday on the bill proposed by Rep. Marlin Schneider, a Democrat, who wants the tree to be known officially as the State of Wisconsin Christmas Tree.

The tree “celebrates one holiday and that holiday is Christmas,” Schneider told FOX News. “It was called a Christmas tree from 1916 until 1985 when political correctness took over, and then we decided it would become a holiday tree. But what it really is, is a Christmas tree, and there’s nothing really wrong with that,” Schneider said.

Not everyone shares the Christmas spirit, however.

Annie Laurie Gaylor, a spokesperson for the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a separation of church and state watchdog group, said she considers the proposed name change offensive.

Officially calling the tree a Christmas tree, she said, would amount to a state endorsement of Christianity.

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