ITEM 1: The city of Chicago has an annual festival called “Christkindlmarket Chicago: A German American Holiday Festival”. Inspired by the famous German Christmas Market in Nuremberg, which dates back to 1545, Christkindlmarket brings a cherished German and European tradition with international flair and local color to Chicago. Today, Christkindlmarket Chicago is the largest and most renowned Christmas/holiday market in the US attracting more than 1 million visitors from around the Chicagoland area, both coasts and around the world.
ITEM 2: One of the private-sector sponsors of the Christkindlmarket festival is New Line Cinema. New Line has a movie coming out soon called “The Nativity Story.” “The Nativity Story” chronicles the arduous journey of Mary and Joseph, a miraculous pregnancy, and the history-defining birth of Jesus. New Line is going to have some televisions in their booth at the festival and on those televisions they will be showing previews of “The Nativity Story.”
ITEM 3: From the Chicago Sun-Times we learn that there is no room in the Inn for The Nativity Story. Worried that ads for “The Nativity Story” would offend non-Christians shopping at downtown’s traditional German Christkindlmarket, the city asked the German American Chamber of Commerce to reconsider New Line Cinema, which made the film, as a sponsor. The group then told the studio it would not be part of the bazaar that began Thursday.
Apparently they want to keep too much Christmas from invading Christmas.
ITEM 4: New Line Cinema is stunned:
We were stunned that our paid sponsorship of Christkindlmarket Chicago – the largest Christmas celebration in Chicago – was rescinded based on the “religious” content of our film The Nativity Story.
We had committed to a $12,000 sponsorship for the market, which was to include a display area in the Festival tent, logo signage in all print ads, direct mailings, brochures, flyers and on the website.
We don’t understand why our sponsorship would be rejected for religious reasons, particularly considering the fact that our film details the story that inspired the holiday season that the Christkindlmarket was created to celebrate.
SUMMARY: Christmas was, and always has been, a celebration based upon the Birth of Jesus. Period. Hijack the holiday all you want it’s still historically based on the Birth of Jesus.
Over 85% of the people in this country celebrate this holiday as a celebration of the Birth of Christ. Of the 15% of those who don’t less than one tenth of one percent care one way or the other what you celebrate and how you celebrate it. This is pure old-fashioned Liberal anti-Christianity along with a dash of pandering to the über-minority, even though it has not been said that anyone (outside of the Chicago government) have made any complaints.
Christianity has no place in the Liberal‘s dream of a Socialist Utopia.
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