Hokansan said he had no intentions of being exclusionary, but that “a Christmas tree is a Christmas tree”.
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“I can not in good conscience continue to be part of a council that is exclusionary or to work with a mayor who is such”, Storey said in her resignation letter.
Her assertion ran within the Roselle Park News source, noting in that 33.eight % of the city’s residents do not determine with a faith. Here is the recap: (Radio.com) The Band Perry will be in NY this Wednesday (Dec. 2) to attend the 83rd annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree and perform on the 18th annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center telecast.
The Roselle Park councilwoman who resigned Thursday after the council voted to change the name of the borough’s “Tree Lighting” to a “Christmas Tree Lighting” is now rescinding her resignation. The event had been called a holiday tree lighting since the 1990s, and Storey objected on the grounds that the change amounted to an endorsement of a specific religion. “It would be inclusive”.
The second highest-ranking council member and the town’s only woman to serve as an elected official, Storey explained her decision in a statement.
“I felt sandbagged. It was not on the agenda and when the mayor and I spoke about it a couple of days before, it was mentioned in passing, among other matters, and the impression was that this was going to be done next year”.
In addition to seeing a more diverse holiday setting in the city, Storey also wants a more diverse council. “I don’t mean to offend anybody in any way, shape or form, but it is a Christmas tree”, says Mayor Hokanson, “It’s not a holiday tree, it’s not a pear tree – it’s a Christmas tree, and this is the season”.
This isn’t the first this year that people have disagreed about how the holidays should be represented.
‘Yes, Christmas is a cultural holiday as well as a religious one. “For 64 years of my life, it was a Christmas tree”.
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Storey, who was raised Catholic but is now a “non-believer” and has never hidden that fact, said the issue was a matter of principle.
