Analyst's note: I'd like to say this is a joke, but not so. We Christians are simply going to have to stand up and demand "Enough, all ready!" We know who is ultimately behind this movement ... he has no power over us that we do not give him. We also note in a recent FoxNews article -- U.S. Army: Don’t say Christmas
“[....] Our equal opportunity representative stopped the briefing and told us that we can’t say Christmas,” the soldier told me. “Almost the entire room blew up. Everybody was frustrated. The equal opportunity rep told our commander that not everyone celebrates Christmas and we couldn’t say Christmas celebration. It had to be holiday celebration.”
[....] The soldier said there was a brief, but heated discussion about political correctness. At one point, the equal opportunity representative tried to deflect the criticism by pointing out it was the Army’s rules – not hers.
“She said an individual can say Christmas, but as an organization in the Army you can’t say Christmas,” the soldier told me.[....]"
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The VA in Dallas is refusing to allow hand-made cards from school children to be delivered to bed-ridden veterans in the hospital. And what evil, intolerant message do these cards contain? “Merry Christmas!”
from KDFW:
"They thought it was a kind holiday gesture, but dozens of Prosper students didn’t get to deliver the Christmas cards they made for local veterans because of a VA policy against specific religious cards and phrasing.
The cards are still in North Texas, and the writers are disappointed their thank you’s won’t be seen by the people they were intended for.
"I’m hoping that it might make their day because their family might live far away, and they might not have somebody to celebrate Christmas with and I’d like them to know they’ve not been forgotten and somebody wanted to say thank you," said fourth grader Gracie Brown.
Gracie and her brother, Luke, put a lot of thought and effort into their Christmas cards.
"It includes ‘Merry Christmas,’ and when you open it up, it says ‘Thank you for your service’ and the American flag," said Luke.
Fifty-two students at Grace Academy in Prosper spent Friday making the cards they planned to hand deliver to bedridden veterans at the VA hospital in Dallas Monday morning.
When Gracie and Luke’s mom, Andrea, found out they wouldn’t be able to, she was outraged.
"This wasn’t the country I grew up in, when you couldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas,’ you couldn’t say ‘God bless you’ or reference any scripture," she said.
The cards were the idea of Susan Chapman, a math teacher at Grace Academy. She’s married to a veteran and volunteers with the American Legion and other veterans’ organizations.
"It really didn’t occur to me there would be a problem with distributing Christmas cards," said Chapman.
She didn’t find out about the VA’s holiday card policy until she called Monday morning to arrange details for the cards’ delivery."
So, rather than allow children to wish sick veterans a Merry Christmas, the VA chooses to violate the 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression. The school isn’t asking the VA to endorse the cards or even deliver them, but the VA is refusing to allow the cards to even be given to the vets. These are essentially private communications that the VA is banning because of anti-religious fascism. There are huge constitutional problems with this.
What war on Christmas? There’s no war on Christmas. Nothing to see here…move along, folks!
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