Fort Collins’ "Holiday Display Task Force" Deemphasizes Christmas, Favoring "Winter Symbols" And Diversity

This display is too “Christmas-y” and therefore offensive to Fort Collins’ “holiday display task force”

Beginning with last year’s controversy over a Menorah display, Fort Collins’ holiday displays will be “festive” but decidedly less “Christmas-y” this year–a “secular winter celebration incorporating cultural and religious differences” (video). In order to avoid controversy and not offend anyone, Christmas elements will be deemphasized in favor of celebrating Fort Collins’ “diversity”–blue and white lights instead of red and green.

Who is responsible for the recommendations? Why Fort Collins’ own “holiday display task force”–17 “religious, cultural, and legal experts”. Holiday-by-committee will render the already watered-down displays into meaningless “winter symbols” when they issue their recommendation to the city council in the coming weeks.

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