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Unbelievable: Obama’s VA issues BAN on Christmas trees…this happens IMMEDIATELY
Allen West ^ | November 21, 2015 | Michelle Jesse

Posted on 11/21/2015 3:54:15 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Sadly, we've come to expect attempts at "sanitizing" the Christmas holiday to strip it of Christian connotations that might offend the perpetually-offended, just as we've come to expect President Obama's lack of respect both for our Constitution and the men and women who've valiantly served to protect it. But when the Obama administration combined these three fouls into one giant hat trick, it didn't go over so well with veterans who wish to mark one of the biggest Christian holidays of the year.

Via Breitbart:

President Barack Obama's Department of Veterans Affairs has banned employees at its facility in Salem, Virginia, from saying "Merry Christmas" to veterans.

It started as a broader ban that included Christmas trees. Federal law recognizes Christmas as an official federal holiday (5 U.S.C. § 6103) and provides federal employees with a paid day off to celebrate the Christian belief in the virgin birth of Jesus Christ.

Every year, a White House Christmas Tree and a Capitol Christmas Tree grace those two respective buildings in Washington D.C., and a National Christmas Tree is also officially lighted outdoors for the public to enjoy during that time of year.

Yet the "Executive Leadership Team" at the Salem VA Medical Center banned Christmas trees, as well as other Christian speech and celebrations. As reported by local media, an email sent by senior staff to the center's employees reads in part:

...Public areas may only be decorated in a manner that is celebratory of the winter season. Displays must not promote any religion. Please note that trees (regardless of the types of ornaments used) have been deemed to promote the Christian religion and will not be permitted in any public areas this year.

Just hours ago, pressure from the center's employees caused the management team to cave on the Christmas...

(Excerpt) Read more at allenbwest.com ...


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Good for the employees in taking a stand!
1 posted on 11/21/2015 3:54:15 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Every employee needs to shout “Merry Christmas” every time someone comes in or goes out. Are they going to fire everyone? And, people laughed when Trump was talking about saying Merry Christmas. Guess they don’t want to offend the atheists and Muzzies. Just having a tree isn’t good enough. Celebrate a winter holiday? That’s just plain stupid.


2 posted on 11/21/2015 3:58:36 PM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Hummm. And Obama is a Christian?


3 posted on 11/21/2015 3:58:39 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Now, let’s see all the bosses FIRED!!! until people start paying consequences for their idiocy, they will continue to grab an inch which will become a mile.


4 posted on 11/21/2015 4:00:59 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Amen. Step by step they come, like Hitler. And the terrible part is you see it coming. We HAVE to fight back.


5 posted on 11/21/2015 4:01:15 PM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: dhs12345

Just this week Obama said “we” when referring to Muslims and even CNBC commented on it.


6 posted on 11/21/2015 4:01:15 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

And this is why veterans should avoid the VA if they can obtain private care, and veteran health services should be privatized. Good on the employees for hitting back.


7 posted on 11/21/2015 4:01:35 PM PST by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: dhs12345

Please everyone visiting the VA this holiday season use merry chritsmas at nausium


8 posted on 11/21/2015 4:01:55 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I worked for the VA for over 30 years, and have been retired for 8 years. They ban “Christmas Party” many years ago, maybe in the late Clinton years, but certainly by the early Bush years. During that time individual VA Medical Centers ban “Christmas” Trees, didn’t allow Christmas Caroling.

So, this is nothing new. Political Correctness has been running rampant through all government agencies for at least the last 15 to 20 years.

Political Correctness should be called Psychological Terrorism. It’s designed to terrorize everyone into silence, which is then taken to be agreement by the PT tyrants.


9 posted on 11/21/2015 4:02:05 PM PST by euram
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Why is anyone surprised that the Obungler administration would do this? I don’t think I am being too cynical of them, to fully expect that eventually they will require Islam lessons in these facilities, as a condition of treatment.


10 posted on 11/21/2015 4:02:31 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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11 posted on 11/21/2015 4:02:37 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Mollypitcher1

That the VA continues to murder veterans by neglect (and no one has been fired!) speaks to their collective pathetic judgment. I’m a Veteran (Semper Fi) and wouldn’t be caught dead in a VA.


12 posted on 11/21/2015 4:03:13 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dhs12345

Only in the eyes of the media.


13 posted on 11/21/2015 4:03:56 PM PST by sport
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

**President Barack Obama’s Department of Veterans Affairs has banned employees at its facility in Salem, Virginia, from saying “Merry Christmas” to veterans.**

Wish them a Blessed Christmas instead.


14 posted on 11/21/2015 4:05:04 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Oh, Cheer up people.

Instead there will be colored lights and green flags for Rabi' al-awwal.

15 posted on 11/21/2015 4:07:13 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Salvation

How about calling it Incarnation Day.


16 posted on 11/21/2015 4:08:11 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

When we stand at the great White Throne Judgement and see Jesus judge these people for eternity I don’t think we are going to feel very sorry for them and that is what bothers me the most. I don’t want to lose my sense of pity or sadness at lost souls but I am getting angrier by the day seeing my Christian country assaulted.


17 posted on 11/21/2015 4:11:23 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Obama's Christmas tree graced by Chairman Mao

12/22/2009

The face of China's Mao Zedong, blamed for the deaths of 50 to 80 million of his countrymen, graces an ornament on the White House Christmas tree for President Obama's first holiday season in residence.

According to BigGovernment.com, the tree also features an ornament adding Obama to Mount Rushmore. ..."

http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/119800/#BegxVTOfQ0v6oZsj.99

18 posted on 11/21/2015 4:11:59 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

.....but he lit up the White House in rainbow color lights to celebrate gay marriage.


19 posted on 11/21/2015 4:12:26 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: OpusatFR

Plausible option. People probably wouldn’t know what was being talked about.

How about Happy Nativity Day?


20 posted on 11/21/2015 4:13:10 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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