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Ärende: Nativity Movie Banned
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 JH> 'Nativity' Booted From Ill. Holiday Fair

 JH> -CHICAGO (AP) - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas
 JH> -story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown
 JH> -Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a
 JH> -movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The
 JH> -Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.

 JH> -New Line Cinema, which said it was dropped, had planned to play a loop of
 JH> -the new film on televisions at the event. The decision had both the
 JH> -studio and a prominent Christian group shaking their heads.

 JH> -"The last time I checked, the first six letters of Christmas still spell
 JH> -out Christ," said Paul Braoudakis, spokesman for the Barrington,
 JH> -Ill.-based Willow Creek Association, a group of more than 11,000
 JH> -churches of various denominations. "It's tantamount to celebrating
 JH> -Lincoln's birthday without talking about Abraham Lincoln."

 JH> -He also said that there is a nativity scene in Daley Plaza - and that
some
 JH> -vendors at the festival sell items related to the nativity.

 JH> -The city does not want to appear to endorse one religion over another,
 JH> -said Cindy Gatziolis, a spokeswoman for the Mayor's Office of Special
 JH> -Events. She acknowledged there is a nativity scene, but also said there
 JH> -will be representations of other faiths, including a Jewish menorah,
 JH> -all put up by private groups. She stressed that the city did not order
 JH> -organizers to drop the studio as a sponsor.

 JH> -"Our guidance was that this very prominently placed advertisement would
 JH> -not only be insensitive to the many people of different faiths who come
 JH> -to enjoy the market for its food and unique gifts, but also it would be
 JH> -contrary to acceptable advertising standards suggested to the many
 JH> -festivals holding events on Daley Plaza," Jim Law, executive director
 JH> -of the office, said in a statement.

 JH> -Officials with the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest,
 JH> -which has organized the event for several years, did not immediately
 JH> -return calls for comment. The festival started Thursday.

 JH> -An executive vice president with New Line Cinema, Christina Kounelias,
 JH> -said the studio's plan to spend $12,000 in Chicago was part of an
 JH> -advertising campaign around the country. Kounelias said that as far as
 JH> -she knew, the Chicago festival was the only instance where the studio
 JH> -was turned down. -Kounelias said she finds it hard to believe that
 JH> -non-Christians who attended something called Christkindlmarket would be
 JH> -surprised or offended by the presence of posters, brochures and other
 JH> -advertisements of the movie.

 JH> -"One would assume that if (people) were to go to Christkindlmarket,
 JH> -they'd know it is about Christmas," she said.
 JH> -Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The radio people were going apeshit yesterday over this in Chicago, ripping the
mayor's office a new bunghole.  Don Wade on WLS, the morning drive time host,
went on a 20 minute tirade over it.  All this PC crap against crosses and
Christmas, and nativity creches, and all the rest is going to backfire on all
the liberal jackasses that push it.  People forget that religious wars are more
more the norm in history than otherwise, and I think it will come back to bite
them.

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