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Christmas e-mail brings heat down on state official

By Eric Gorski
Denver Post Staff Writer

It sounds like a message any pastor would deliver at Christmas: that "God's only son, Jesus, came to Earth and gave his life so that we may live." That Jesus' words and works are "central to our lives and must guide us and inspire us."

Only those words came not from a pulpit but from the desk of Paul Cooke, director of the Colorado Division of Fire Safety.

The beliefs are laid out in a Christmas greeting Cooke sent on his state e-mail account last week to his six employees and fire chiefs across the state.

Lance Clem, spokesman for the State Department of Public Safety, which includes the Fire Safety Division, said Monday the message was inappropriate and violated department policy against personal messages in e-mails. Cooke apologized and said he wasn't trying to impose any religion on anyone.

This comes at a time when skirmishes over religion in the public square are on the rise.

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