Have Yourself a Dreary Little Christmas

Modern Conservative ^ | Burt Prelutsky

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By Burt Prelutsky

Over the last several years, a time of year that was traditionally a period of goodwill and universal brotherhood, when even actual brothers somehow managed to set aside sibling rivalries for a month or so, Christmas has become an annual battleground between decent people and a relatively small number of secular leftists who insist on carrying on as if auditioning for the role of Scrooge.

As many of you are no doubt aware, this year, Fort Collins got a jump start on the foolishness. The town fathers, by making every effort not to offend anyone, have, like so many other town fathers in America, figured out a way to offend the greatest possible number.

I, for one, blame the ACLU. That’s the group which, under the guise of promoting and protecting civil rights, has managed to bully any number of municipalities into accepting their lie that the Constitution demands the separation of church and state when, in fact, it does nothing of the kind. Aside from making freedom of religion an irrevocable right, the only thing the Constitution does is...

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the only thing the Constitution does is...

Morph like an origami quiz to suit transient conveniences of vacuous progressives.

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Yes, suggesting that words on paper mean nothing!

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The contempt that arrogant office holders in our country show for the concerns of their constituents

As a "constituent" whose concerns are routinely given short shrift, I do see that the concerns of other constituents are practically paid homage. As in Animal Farm, some are more equal than others!