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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (98736)	3/19/2005 5:33:48 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

It's like this: I'd wear a yamulkah if asked to at a friends wedding. I don't know the protocol, so maybe a goyim like myself wouldn't be asked. I've been to Bar Mitzvahs and didn't have to do anything except drink a toast - they were liberal Jews, though. There was singing and dancing and I could join if I wanted. I was a pall bearer for a Catholic friend who asked me. I did the appropriate kneeling and standing, etc. - they seemed generally relaxed about the whole thing and it was ritual more than heavy religion. With that said, at work, it is an imposition to be told to do something for a religion to which I don't subscribe - I shouldn't be asked to sing Christmas Carols or otherwise perform at holiday parties, unless it is totally voluntary and announced well in advance. Nobody should be asked impromptu. There can be peer pressure to do this and I've been subject to that too. Secular imagery is okay: snowflakes, snowmen, even a tree is probably okay as a symbol with round ornaments and ribbons but angels and crosses should be absent (it was pagan anyway) and that kind of thing. If it starts getting anymore religious then it is a slippery slope, IMO. Most of this is just good judgment, right?