CNN Blogger Slams Nazareth's History

FROM ROSS NUNAMAKER

CNN White House Correspondent Dan Lothian opted to use the religious heritage of Nazareth, PA to speak to intolerance in a pre-holiday post.

Nazareth, PA was founded by German immigrants in 1740. They were Protestants who had “no room in the Inn” for outside faiths. Non-protestants were not allowed to purchase property in that community, according to accounts of the towns history.


(editor’s note: his typo not mine;-)


He does note that we got better and uses our community heritage as an example for Congress to open up and compromise as well:


Perhaps there are lessons to be learned of tolerance, respect, even compromise, from the history of those two U.S. towns. Nazareth and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania have opened their arms since those days when religious differences dictated whose name could be on a deed.


Obviously a big stretch on this post to tie politics to the holiday season via Nazareth and Bethlehem, but this is also coming from the same post that spoils a gift the president bought for his daughters four days before Christmas.


Always enjoy seeing how the town is represented outside the valley, this one I wasn’t expecting.

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