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Re: Christmas trees could be out in Fort Collins displays
UPDATE: Fort Collins council nixes plan for secular display
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City Council members heeded the call of “don’t mess with tradition” on Tuesday when they rejected a proposal to create a strictly secular, multicultural display of the holiday season starting next year.
The council’s 6-1 decision means the traditional show of colored lights, ornamented greenery and Christmas trees will remain on city property, as it has for many years.
The council also agreed to pursue a city-appointed task force’s idea to create an inclusive multicultural “religious” exhibition at the city museum. The educational display would create a wide- ranging exhibition showing how at least nine religions celebrate a winter holiday.
The decision came during a meeting that drew a crowd of 150 people, lasted more than three hours and included 43 speakers. Speakers implored the council to honor Christmas as the holiday celebrated by a majority of local residents.
The task force, on the other hand, wanted strictly white lights, bare garlands and secular symbols such as snowflakes because colored lights and ornamented trees were too suggestive of a religious Christmas.
The council decision echoed the opinion of Mayor Doug Hutchinson, who said 95 percent of the 200 e-mails he received recently said “don’t diminish Christmas . . . don’t mess with tradition.”
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