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 ...
Thanks!
Every American has seen or read “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” BO doesnt know what it is. What does that tell you?
(from a google search)
NEW YORK – As a student at Harvard Law School, then-bachelor Barack Obama’s practice of wearing a gold band on his wedding-ring finger puzzled his colleagues.
Now, newly published photographs of Obama from the 1980s show that the ring Obama wore on his wedding-ring finger as an unmarried student is the same ring Michelle Robinson put on his finger at the couple’s wedding ceremony in 1992.
Moreover, according to Arabic-language and Islamic experts, the ring Obama has been wearing for more than 30 years is adorned with the first part of the Islamic declaration of faith, the Shahada: “There is no god except Allah.â€
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Inscription on Obama's ring The Shahada is the first of the Five Pillars of Islam, expressing the two fundamental beliefs that make a person a Muslim: There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is Allah’s prophet. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/#tDdAJ2t9gpMrqAbR.99
Unreal. I wonder if he would have been elected if people knew he was/is a muslim.
The two sets of documents certifying Obama and Biden as elegible for presidency, signed by Pelosi and with the same typo at the end of the second line....with one document missing a key sentence:
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There were 8 attempts by Democrats to try to "Change the Qualification Rules" BEFORE Obama was elected.I’m sure you had no idea that the VA was following a rule that was put to law by GW Bush in 2002.... Don’t believe everything you read. If you are truly a Captain, you are probably more educated than that....
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