Seattle, WA - At Sea-Tac Airport this holiday season, but there will not be a Christmas tree.
Not by definition, anyway.
Nor will menorahs or Buddhas be present.
So recommended the Port of Seattle's Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee on Thursday.
"No specific religious symbols should be used," recommended the committee, formed after the port was slammed internationally for yanking down -- then reinstating -- its airport's nine Christmas trees last December. The port's controversial decision to take down the trees last December, later reversed, was made under a threat from Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky, who hired a lawyer and threatened to sue the port if it did not add an 8-foot menorah next to the trees festooned with red ribbons and bows. [ap]