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Why the left fears Christmas
The American Thinker ^
| 11-19-2005
| Bookworm
Posted on 11/19/2005 10:47:30 AM PST by AliVeritas
As the Christmas season nears, we can anticipate a flurry of news stories about townships here and cities there, all of which are trying their darndest to avoid the idea of Christmas. Some will substitute entirely nondenominational winter celebrations; others will invoke Native American or Pagan spirits; others will do an ecumenical melange of celebrations by dressing Santa in a yarmalkah and Kwanza colors; and still others will take the joking way out, and do a Seinfeldian Festivus.
Each community, whatever option it chooses, will think its properly complying with its First Amendment obligations. And each community, I believe, will be violating both the letter and spirit of the First Amendments freedoms of religion and speech.
The First Amendment is not complex. Its entire view on the nexus between religion and government appears in two short clauses:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Thats it. (And of course, the Fourteenth Amendment extends this Clauses reach to State governments.)
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KEYWORDS: aclu; christmas; constitution; history; waronchristmas
Excellent piece.
To: AliVeritas
Thanks for the post, although I had to look up both "ukase", and "inchoate"... :)
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:00:57 AM PST
by
andyk
(Fear my strategery of misunderestimation.)
To: AliVeritas
Thank you...definitely a good read.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:09:36 AM PST
by
Colonial Warrior
(You can't tell how good a man or a watermelon is 'til they get thumped. Character shows when tested)
To: AliVeritas
Great Article!
Unfortunately, it is not just the lefties that is diss'ing Christmas
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:09:43 AM PST
by
ottothedog
(Forbes 2008)
To: AliVeritas
The inchoate, unspoken fear, then, that lurks behind the Lefts relentless attacks on Christmas is that somewhere, somehow, someone is going to see a department store Santa in a city parade or a cheesy creche under a tree by a courthouse, and is then going to rush off screaming to join the nearest church.
LOL
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:24:05 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Murtha: Redeployment - What .......Surrender? // “Victory is not an exit strategy”)
To: AliVeritas
Thank God, at my 60+ years, I can remember when Christmas was Christmas.
I feel so sorry for the kids and traditional thinking people that have to put up with the Nudows and PC crapers
of the world.
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posted on
11/19/2005 11:30:25 AM PST
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava)
To: AliVeritas
Excellent article. It was good food for thought.
> I am more horrified by the outrageous attempts to our alter culture by a hand full of people.
I think their next step will be the infiltration of all churches.
To: after dark
"I think their next step will be the infiltration of all churches. They are already doing that.
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posted on
11/19/2005 1:38:56 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(DEMS....40 yrs and $$$dollars for the War on Poverty, but NOT a $$ or minute for the WAR on Terror!)
To: after dark
One of the next steps is jail time for preachers because of hate speech.
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posted on
11/19/2005 1:56:30 PM PST
by
bulldozer
To: AliVeritas
...fearing a Saudi style theocracy doesnt mean we have to go the other way and allow the small number of active atheists to remove religion or, as with Santa, icons loosely based on religion, entirely from our world.
Very well said. A small group of atheists should not be allowed to preach and spread their religion on the majority of Americans who are tolerant, fair and respectful of the Bill of Rights.
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posted on
11/20/2005 10:12:11 PM PST
by
Falconspeed
(Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson)
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