MA city council member proclaims "Jesus is the reason for the season" at MENORAH lighting ceremony.

[hifiguy]

Bud Williams, city councilor in Springfield, Mass., stood in the court square earlier this week and participated in a holiday tradition.

“Jesus is the reason for the season,” Williams said at a Tuesday ceremony,according to MassLive.com.

His remarks wouldn’t really be notable, except that Williams was speaking at a menorah lighting ceremony, to mark the beginning of Hanukkah.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/18/1352804/-Councilman-announces-Jesus-is-the-reason-for-the-season-at-menorah-lighting-ceremony?detail=email

[etherealtruth]

1. Sometimes the stupid really does burn

my question: is he simply a moron or did he mean to be disrespectful on top of his idiocy?

[hifiguy]

2. Check the link, it is funny as hell.

Needless to say the EMTs are bringing the Jaws of Life to extricate this nincompoop's feet from his mouth.

[nichomachus]

3. No, he just believes the bullshit that's preached in church

He believes that he gets celestial brownie point for "witnessing for Christ." I'm guessing his fellow churchgoers will be backslapping the crap out of him come Sunday for "standing up for Jesus." And they will proclaim him a martyr for being ridiculed.

[dembotoz]

4. class is just something he skipped in high school

[Initech]

5. To quote Stephen Colbert "Can you really put a price on offending the two biggest religions at once?

[Oilwellian]

6. This is also part of the war on Christmas

for the brain dead who refuse to admit and share a holiday season that includes several different cultural events. I believe this asshat was just being his willfully ignorant self and purposely insulted the Jewish celebration.