Christmas Tree

This past week there was some controversy in the Seattle airport. A Jewish man requested that a menorah be put up in the airport for holiday decoration in addition to the 40 Christmas trees. The airports response to this was to take down all the Christmas trees. The reasoning was that they didn't have the time to come up with a Chanukah decoration. They also said that if they put up decorations for Chanukah then they would have to do something for all cultures that are celebrating this time of year and they didn't feel right spending all that money on holiday decorations when they needed more security funding. Personally I think that's crap. Yes, the trees weren't decked out in little baby Jesuses (is that the plural form?) but a tree around Christmas time represents Christmas! I don't think there's anything wrong with them putting the trees up, but I do have a problem with them ignoring all other cultures and religions. And the fact that they can't validate spending money on putting up a menorah but it's all fine and dandy to put up FORTY Christmas trees really burns me.

The Jewish man that initially filed the request for a menorah to be added later said that he did not want for the trees to be taken down. He only wanted that other cultures/religions be acknowledged. The media, on the other hand, really played it off as "uh-oh the Jews are mad." When I first saw the story on cnn.com, the headline made me mad at the man becuase it made it sound like he was angry and asked to have the trees taken down. Once I watched the video online though I saw that that was not the case. I dislike how the media portrays events like this. For people who may not have read the article or watched the video they might be mad that the Jews had the trees taken down.