How is a Christmas tree like a Menorah?

How is a Christmas tree representative of a specific belief? Do people from all walks of life and beliefs not put up a Christmas tree for "Santa"?

How come in this society we have to SUE every damn body to force them to do things OUR way? Is there any wonder why we have so many stupid lawsuits clogging up the courts?

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stori....11b0d0cc.html

I know that as of today, this story has changed and the Christmas trees are being put back up. I think probably because the rabbi got a lot of pressure from his own people to shut up since he was making them look like idiots, but.....why did he want to do this in the first place?

This may come as a shocker to a lot of people, but there are NO Christmas trees in the Bible. So it's not technically a "religious" symbol. We tie it into Christmas because that's when they're put up, but the tree is not ABOUT Christmas. Compare that to a Menorah, which is entirely a religious symbol and practice. Atheists put up Christmas trees for their kids. How many Atheists light up Menorahs?

So how could a rabbi, a leader in the Jewish community, get upset and demand to have a Menorah lighting CEREMONY because there is a Christmas tree in the lobby of an airport?

Someone please explain to me what his thought process was.