Seniors Outraged Over Christmas Tree Ban
By: Fox News
Updated: December 6, 2012
Residents of a senior adult apartment complex in California staged a protest after the management of their building announced a ban on Christmas trees and menorahs in communal areas.
"We're all angry," resident Fern Scheel told the Los Angeles Daily News."We want that tree. Where's our freedom? This is ridiculous."
JB Partners Group sent a memorandum to The Willows in Newhall, Calif. ordering them to remove the Christmas tree from the community room because they deemed it a religious symbol, the newspaper reported.
Two dozen residents held a protest rally and placed a sign on the tree that read, "Please Save Our Tree."
"We could put out Easter baskets, have turkey for Thanksgiving but no tree for Christmas because it has Christ's name in the beginning of Christmas," resident Edna Johnson said.
JB Partners Group owns apartments in California, Oklahoma and Colorado. They did not return calls seeking comment.
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