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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please please please stick to your guns on this one.  A Christmas tree is an overtly Christian symbol and it will only confuse your little ones, who already face enough pressure to assimilate. Your stepdaughter needs to respect your rules in your home.  If she wants to celebrate Christmas, she can do it elsewhere.[/quote]

The stepdaughter didn't bring it up; OP's DH did. He wants to have it in their home this Christmas and asked where they should put it, not whether they should have one.  Those little ones are his children, too. [/quote]

DH agreed to raise their kids a certain way.  Now he's trying to change their agreement midstream.  OP doesn't have to accept that.[/quote]

He doesn't appear to be trying to change the way the children with OP are raised. Instead, he is honoring the beliefs of his child with his previous wife. That child is his just as much as the younger ones are.

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I take it you're not jewish.  Being a Jew means fighting against thousands of years of attempts to annihilate and assimilate your people into the dominant culture.  That means drawing a hard line and not allowing your kids to dabble in other religions for fun and means maintaining a Jewish home.  Husband is now moving the goalposts and trying to walk back his commitment to maintaining that Jewish home.  That IS changing the way OP'a kids are being raised.[/quote]

OP married a Christian who has kids from another marriage.  Her children's sibs are Christians.   If racial purity was important to her, she should have married another Jew.

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