Christmas for many, ‘holiday’ for some
For some in Glendale, it’s the so-called “holiday season.” For many in the city, it’s the Christmas season, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the savior of Christianity.
There is an ongoing movement of the secular progressives, a far-left faction, to eliminate the name Christmas in our lives at this time of year, a campaign that has been intensifying over the past several years and continues to mock the beliefs of Christians.
Even the city of Glendale honors “holiday season” over Christmas season, which troubles many residents.
The city now holds a wrongly billed “Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony” — whatever that means — which removes “Christmas” from the program so as not to offend the minority. I thought the city’s annual ceremony in December was all about Christmas with the featured tree being properly designated.
The secular progressives may think they have us Christians on the run, but the war is far from over, and we’ll still be standing tall after the defeat of the other side.
DON MAZEN
Glendale
City is way off base with tree ordinance
I’m writing to express my opposition to the city’s overprotection of certain trees and its punitive attitude toward anyone who tampers with those trees (“Tree-trimming fine dropped,” Nov. 28).
First, I’d like to distinguish between oaks, sycamores and bays that are on private property and those that are on public property. I think that those that are on public property should be fully protected. But who owns the trees that are on private property? If a tree is on my property, it’s my tree. I must be able to do as I like with the tree — my wood, my ground and water that nurtures it.
For the city to tell me that I can’t even trim my tree, and to threaten extreme punishment if I do, is ridiculous. It’s the worst form of Big Brotherism — it borders on fascism.
So extreme are the city’s attitudes about protected trees that I suggest that anyone who considers buying a property containing a protected tree, or a property adjacent to one containing a protected tree, must be notified by a disclosure statement that warns of the tree’s leaf-shedding, and potential problems with its roots, and of not having any recourse to mitigate these problems.
Fortunately, I have no protected trees on my property. But as a longtime Glendale resident, I know that the city is off base on this issue.
