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UPDATE!!!! No Christian Music or Christmas Carols in Shopping Mall
American Family Association ^ | 10/27/2016 | AFA

Posted on 10/27/2016 8:26:41 AM PDT by Maudeen

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To: Maudeen

Regardless of whether the mall itself, or a hired consultant, proposed the no-Christian-music policy, it is a sign of the times. The same people who want to privatize Christian Christmas music as “divisive” or even “offensive” are the same ones who want to impose their own cultural artifacts and policies on us, no matter how offensive we might find them.


21 posted on 10/27/2016 9:10:37 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Lou L
"The materials created and distributed by a third party company relating to the hiring of performance groups for UTC were not reviewed by UTC staff in advance of distribution,"

Sounds like some atheist, sniveling, liberal, PC wonk tried to get their agenda instituted...........or it was a muslim.............

22 posted on 10/27/2016 9:15:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (WhereÂ’s that VIDEO the Anonymous group promised us????????????)
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To: SkyDancer

‘Happy Holiday’ malls and stores should be avoided. Spend a little time in a Christian Church this upcoming CHRISTMAS!


23 posted on 10/27/2016 9:16:56 AM PDT by Lewis Stone
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To: SkyDancer

Those people who worry about taking the Christ out of Christmas are behind the curve. They need to worry about taking Christmas out of Christmas.

Or should I say taking “Christmas” out of the “festive season”.

Happy New Year.


24 posted on 10/27/2016 9:17:22 AM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: rovenstinez
Donald Trump said if he was elected he would allow us all to say again, MERRY CHRISTMAS.

He is in NO position to allow us to say anything. Encourage us, yes. Allow not a friggin' chance. If that were possible Obama and Hillary would already have banned it. MERRY CHRISTMAS. HAPPY HANUKAH!

Vote Trump!!!

25 posted on 10/27/2016 9:22:06 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Nifster

The headline is just as it appeared this morning in the link from my e-mail to the AFA site.


26 posted on 10/27/2016 9:27:55 AM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

Sing

Silent Night in German


27 posted on 10/27/2016 9:33:48 AM PDT by SandRat ( (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?))
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To: Maudeen

I know it copied correctly. It does not match the story


28 posted on 10/27/2016 9:38:22 AM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: Maudeen

Sounds like that mall recovered from its Macycide and NFLcide thoughts re no Christmas during the Christmas shopping season in record time.

The store owners in the mall might have paid some personal visits to the mall owners to change their mind.


29 posted on 10/27/2016 9:40:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Maudeen

But Christmas carols in Spanish, Latin, or German were OK, per the original memo from Taubman.


30 posted on 10/27/2016 9:41:03 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Lewis Stone

‘Happy Holiday’ malls and stores should be avoided. Spend a little time in a Christian Church this upcoming CHRISTMAS!

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The last 5 years or so, I’ve abandoned “commercial” Christmas. Buying presents was an expensive chore & when you find yourself buying gift cards because you don’t know what people “like/want”, then the present doesn’t have much value other than monetary any more, IMO.

After hearing stories of Christmas in the Depression years from my folks (piece of hard candy & an orange - my dad, as the youngest once got a pair of socks), I decided that any gift I gave would have to be hand made or something that absolutely was ‘perfect’ for the person receiving it & a nominal price (example: a new book found for $1 about “What is my cat thinking” for a relative who recently rescued an abandoned cat). The first year I made presents, I was actually excited again to see my family members open their gifts. This process has evolved ... some folks (the younger ones) do not appreciate hours of hand work so this year I am canning produce out of my garden and they will all get things to ‘eat’ (salsa, jellies, chutney, hot pepper butter, etc.). There is still time/effort involved (growing garden, harvesting, canning), but it’s not the hours spent the entire 3 months before Christmas working on detailed, handmade items. I have not been to a mall in years, Christmas shopping or otherwise, BTW.

Anyway, I’d like to see the whole family go to making all their gifts or better yet, we go to no gifts at all and have a big family dinner (with all making some contribution) & spend time together - the most meaningful gift we could give to ourselves. We do get together for a big Christmas meal, but if that was considered the “present”, I think it would mean even more. The family does all go to church so that is an important part of the Christmas season for us.


31 posted on 10/27/2016 9:48:13 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for mewww.freerepublic.com/f. [Franklin Graham])
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To: SandRat

Sing Silent Night in German

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When our church has it’s Christmas Eve service & the song is “Silent Night”, some of us in the family sing it in German - we’re not numbers enough/loud enough to disrupt the hymn, but our family can hear it & maybe a few immediately adjacent our pew. I love it. :-)


32 posted on 10/27/2016 9:51:15 AM PDT by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for. The God I worship died for mewww.freerepublic.com/f. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Maudeen

“The materials created and distributed by a third party company ... “

My dog wrote my homework ...


33 posted on 10/27/2016 9:51:17 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Maudeen

Will they play muzzard neck sawing tunes?


34 posted on 10/27/2016 10:15:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Freedom of speech: an illusion that Americans hold fast to, although it disappeared decades ago.)
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To: Maudeen

Well, I guess this is in FL since Sarasota, FL that I’m aware of. BTW, try using paragraphs if you want people to actually read a sea of words.


35 posted on 10/27/2016 12:20:51 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: SkyDancer

If Olympics and SuperBowl can only be used by those organizations, I wonder if Christians could have limitations on commercial uses of Christmas, as in “Christmas Sale”. Combining Christ with a cheap sale might be offensive to some.


36 posted on 10/27/2016 12:22:02 PM PDT by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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To: FrankR

I use ‘Christmas’ all year, anywhere I can insert it, especially in places that tend to say happy holidays at Christmastime, like the PO, grocery store, bank.

I say things like ‘well, that’s rarer than Christmas snow’ (I’m in South FL), or ‘I like that, I’ll take one of those for Christmas’, etc.

If you give it a bit of thought you can often work the work Christmas into daily conversation. I must say it at least 3 times a week — year round:)


37 posted on 10/27/2016 12:24:41 PM PDT by CelesteChristi
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To: Cobra64

Sorry about that but I was heading out the door and my sister who when I told her about the mall doing a turnaround said I better get on FR and do an updated post to my earlier thread. All I had time to do was cut and paste.

I know what you mean about the paragraphs running together thing.


38 posted on 10/27/2016 4:34:56 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Nifster

If you are talking about the Donald Trump speech. . .I didn’t post it. I think it is a donation to FR Post. They interject those every once in a while.

I double checked the link on my post and it matched the story.


39 posted on 10/27/2016 5:03:16 PM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: Maudeen

Sounds like they wanted to see if anyone was paying attention. Guess they found out.


40 posted on 10/27/2016 6:45:41 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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